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The difference is that TAL is a radio show that was also distributed as podcast. Serial was only a podcast.
by BurningFrog 4y ago
The difference is that TAL is a radio show that was also distributed as podcast.
Serial was only a podcast.
- pengaru 4y agoSure, except I never listened to TAL on the radio. We would download a bunch of the episodes into someone's mp3 player (later a phone) and listen to them in the car through a tape deck headphone adapter. That's the era I lived through, the transition to mp3s and ipods becoming commonplace, and TLA was right there with us. They are called podcasts after all, this is pre-streaming parlance. I don't think it's fair to be discredit TAL's role in the shift to podcasting just because they were a radio show first. Serial basically arrived when everyone was streaming everything, that's pretty late in terms of podcasts. Serial didn't even exist in the era of iPods and Zens...