November 22, 2005 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web hosting provider SolidSpace (http://www.solidspace.com) has announced the availability of a new podcast hosting service for radio stations. The company launched its podcasting capability in partnership with ‘98-7 Simon’ (a.k.a. WSMW), a music station based in Greensboro, North Carolina that podcasts its popular "The Wicker Show" morning drive-time program. 98-7 Simon forwards content through links to SolidSpace where it is hosted in the company’s state-of-the-art Winston-Salem data center.
"The software-as-a-service format isn't just the wave of the future - it's here, and podcast hosting is just a natural extension of the benefits thousands of other corporate users are leveraging worldwide," said Jim Capps, president of SolidSpace LLC. "Our podcast hosting service gives radio stations the ability to do what they do best - create content that drives listenership and advertising dollars - and leaves the back-end processing to us."
"Podcasting was just another opportunity for us to interact with our audience," said WSMW Program Director Michael Bryan. "If they missed something unusual that happened in the show, they can go back and check it out on our web site. Some other radio stations run the best snippets of the week on the weekend, but on our site listeners don't have to wait that long. It's an on-demand world, and we're giving them what they're demanding."
SolidSpace’s data center is located in the Piedmont Triad Research Park in Winston-Salem, North Connecticut and the company is also present in Chicago, Boston, Germany and Singapore.
