Farpoint Media’s podcast “Radio Yesterday” has the first of two, unique audio offerings from the “Star Trek” universe this week.
It’s the “Robot Masters” story from the popular Power Records line of the 1970s. For those of you unfamiliar with Power Records, the line offered audio adventures for popular movie and comic book characters of the [...]
Get Your Charlie Jade Questions Answered
June 5, 2009 || Category: Podcasting, TV News | Leave a Comment
Get Your Charlie Jade Questions Answered by Show Creator
Robert Wertheimer
Charlie Jade co-creator Robert Wertheimer will be joining Kevin Bachelder,
Summer Brooks and Richard Porter for a very special edition of the Charlie Jade fan discussion podcast later this month.
This is a rare opportunity for you to get your Charlie Jade questions answered by Robert so please [...]
Geek Syndicate Talks to Amanda Tapping
January 15, 2009 || Category: Interviews, Podcasting | 2 Comments
Our good friends at Geek Syndicate kick off 2009 with a great interview with “Stargate SG1″ and “Sanctuary” star, Amanda Tapping. Amanda was our guest on Slice of SciFi last March.
Tapping discusses the creation of the series and the journey it took from being a web-based series to its first season that just wrapped [...]
Congratulations to the Winners of for the Fall ‘08 Podcast Peer Awards. The winners and finalists were selected by over 500 podcasters.
*Best Music Podcast
Winner: — The GeekSpin
Other Finalists:
Zaldor’s World
It’s a Frog’s Life
JT’s Indie Christian Music
Indie Music Sampler
*Best Tech Podcast
Winner: — Tech Talk for Families
Other Finalists:
The Daily [...]
Geek Syndicate Keeping the U.K. on its Geeky Toes
August 21, 2008 || Category: Podcasting | Leave a Comment
Geek Syndicate is a UK based podcast that celebrates and focuses on all things geek, especially comics. They bring the news from the world of TV, movies, games, comics and gadgets, as well as reviews, interviews and special features.
Last year they were nominated in the Best Entertainment category at the 2007 Podcast Awards. [...]
The Blood Ties Podcast hosted by Kevin Bachelder, Akira Ravens and Vivenne Rose and featuring Review of Blood Ties from “˜The Signal” podcast, Listener Question of the Week, Blood Ties news and more is now up and running with their first official episode called “Bite Back.”
To visit the website and subscribe to the show visit [...]
PodCulture Presents: a Stargate Louisville Salute to Actor Don S. Davis
July 9, 2008 || Category: Podcasting | Leave a Comment
Brad and Christina take a week off from PodCulture, and dust off the Stargate Louisville podcast and join friends and fans in remembering a dear part of the sci-fi community, actor Don S. Davis.
Whether you knew him as Scully’s dad on “The X-Files,” Major Garland Briggs on “Twin Peaks” or as General George S. Hammond [...]
The Charlie Jade Commentary Podcast is a new project that’s near and dear to FarPoint Media and the hosts and fans of Slice of SciFi.
Charlie Jade is a smart, thrilling scifi TV series that has a loyal international following from it’s airings around the world in 2005-2006, and finally began airing in the United States [...]
The StarShipSofa podcast has become a Science Fiction Audio Magazine.
An additional regular Wednesday show now features fiction, articles, poetry and flash fiction, with stories from top authors including Michael Moorcock, Spider Robinson, Joe Haldeman and Kage Baker.
Tony, who produces the podcast, is featured in an article in the most recent edition of iProng the iPod [...]
FarPoint Media Introduces New Political Podcast
June 13, 2008 || Category: Podcasting | Leave a Comment
FarPoint Media is happy to announce a new addition to its growing list of podcasts and websites dedicated to bringing the public news, entertainment and information.
“A View From the Fence” is a new political podcast hosted by John Lambo, Sketkar and new show host Ragman.
The first show of the bi-weekly podcast is now available from [...]
Fanboy Smackdown is no more — Long live the Back Seat Producers
May 24, 2008 || Category: Podcasting | Leave a Comment
The Fanboy Smackdown podcast is changing its name, along with its address. After 61 regular episodes and a handful of special episodes, show hosts the Tony, Tony and Adam have decided that it was finally time to change the name of the podcast that has, since its inception, been focused solely on movies. The new [...]
Noboru Ishiguro is renowned for such notable titles as “Astro Boy,” “Space Battleship Yamato” (a.k.a. “Star Blazers”), and “Superdimensional Fortress Macross”
The Anime World Order podcast is presenting an audio interview with Noboru Ishiguro – the President of Japanese animation studio Artland, Inc. As a veteran of the Japanese animation industry for over 45 years, [...]
XM-Downtime Means Slice of SciFi Repeat on 05-12-08
May 7, 2008 || Category: Podcasting | Leave a Comment
XM Satellite Radio is having some FTP problems making it impossible to broadcast last week’s re-airing of our “Battlestar Galactica” James Callis interview.
The satellite radio company will, however, run our highly popular interview with theoretical physicist Michio Kaku which didn’t get aired on XM due to special holiday programming at the end of last [...]
While the campaigns to save Journeyman and Dresden Files may not have yielded the results we hoped for, fans of Lifetime’s Blood Ties still have an opportunity to save their favorite series.
A new site, www.savebloodties.org was launched last week and is intended as a central resource for fans to work together and bring the show [...]
There’s a new podcast for everyone interested in Dragon*Con. It’s called Dragon*Pod.
Dragon*Pod is designed to be a show that will act as “Your Audio to Guide Everything Dragon*Con”. It will contain information about the Dragon*Con, guests, some interesting tips and tricks to help improve your con going experience and it will have interviews [...]
DragonHearth Productions Talk to Richard Garriott
February 12, 2008 || Category: Podcasting | Leave a Comment
FarPoint Media is happy to announce DragonHearth Production’s first show of 2008: Part One of a series of interviews with Richard Garriott (’Lord British’ to Ultima and Tabula Rasa fans) direct from Star City, Russia. Garriott talks about his training and preparation for his upcoming spaceflight aboard Soyuz TMA-13 to the International Space Station [...]
Written by: J. Xavier Marcus (”Very Small Doses”)
If you were at the Podcast and New Media Expo this past weekend in Ontario, you probably caught a glimpse of this guy in the “secret service”-type outfit.
He was hard to miss, floating up and down the halls during the keynote addresses of Howard Lindzon, Creator of WallStrip [...]
We here at Slice of SciFi would like to give a shout-out to the guys over at the “Staggering Stories Podcast” and thank them for the kind words they gave us on their latest show.
If you’ve never had the chance to listen to them, then we recommend you take the time to do so. [...]
Our friends over at “The British Invaders” podcast have now moved to their new format of providing their listeners with two 30 minute programs per month. The show had been offering only one episode each month. This change will allow the show hosts to use two full episodes to cover one topic each [...]
Submitted by: Michael R. Mennenga (President, Farpoint Media)
SoundExchange Will Not Enforce New Royalty Rates on Sunday!
By: Eliot Van Buskirk — Wired
At today’s Congressional hearing about the new rates for online radio that would essentially destroy it (as readers of this blog already know), SoundExchange, which was scheduled to receive the new royalty payments on Monday [...]
Hello one and all:
Though most of my email’s have been about subject matters dealing directly with your shows/site platforms, this email won’t be specifically related. In case you guys weren’t aware, in 3 days the FCC will be making decisions that will affect how the Internet will be maintained, whether by the public sector [...]
Doctor Who Experience Exhibitor Martin Wilkie on ChuckChat
July 5, 2007 || Category: Podcasting | Leave a Comment
Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe of Technorama released an interview with Martin Wilkie. Martin is one of the people behind the Doctor Who Exhibitions (the head of design) in the UK. Find out more about the exhibitions and Martin’s unique connection to Doctor Who in the interview at ChuckChat.com.
One of our newest Farpoint Media websites and podcasts called “Freshly Green” aired its first show dedicated to living in such a way that preserves the rich diversity found on our beautiful planet.
Our hosts, Greg Peterson and Amy Godfrey, are there to bring you a fun approach to living green! Sit back and listen, and [...]
**Announcement — Slice of SciFi Programming Change**
June 15, 2007 || Category: Podcasting | 13 Comments
Beginning with Slice of SciFi Show #114 on June 21, 2007, we are changing the release day for all future shows. In order to better sync with XM-Satellite Radio, new episodes for the Slice of SciFi Show will be ready for download on Thursday instead of Wednesday as is the current scheduling period.
The Voice [...]
Fanboy Smackdown Looks at “Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed”
May 25, 2007 || Category: Podcasting | Leave a Comment
“STAR WARS: THE LEGACY REVEALED” is a documentary that looks at the Star Wars 30 year old franchise and airs this Sunday, May 28, 2007 at 9PM EST on cable TV’s The History Channel
Thirty years ago today, a film opened to forty theaters. That film went on to pave the way for Science Fiction and [...]
In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars our good friend Indiana Jim has a big upcoming Star Wars shindig planned for his podcast that we here at Slice of SciFi want to clue you in on.
It’s called the “T.A.L.U. Star Wars Extravaganza” and will feature interviews with the likes of Nathan P. Butler [...]
There is a new scifi podcast now available called “British Invaders” and it promises to put the class in British Sci-fi.
The show stars two podcasters separated by the Big Gray — Brian Doob, a software developer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Xander, an an applied physicist who lives in Surrey, England.
This new podcast dedicated to [...]
The new SciFi Smackdown has finally arrived so, “LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!” This is the show that you, the fans, demanded.
Spawned from Slice of SciFi, SciFi Smackdown is here to once and for all answer the question of who would win in a fight between the greatest icons of Science Fiction. Your SciFi [...]
The New York Times has taken notice of the impact that internet podcasting, and the Pod Novel in particular, are beginning to have on the world of literature and writing and the way it is presented to the public. This fairly new medium is starting to take the publishing industry by storm and [...]
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2006 Attending Balticon 41
January 10, 2007 || Category: Podcasting | 1 Comment
Written by: Paul Fischer (Balticon Podcast)
No, really, it’s true! Time’s Person of the Year for 2006 celebrated creators and users of content for the Internet, and, boy, do we have some great New Media content creators coming to Balticon 41, Special Guests of Honor Michael R. Mennenga and Evo Terra. Mike and Evo are best [...]
