The end of the free podcasts

Over the past few years podcasts have become a popular thing. Podcasts range on a variety of subjects from computing, to sports, to literary and everything in between.  The common joe can get up on their soap box and say what they feel about any subject and others can listen to it for free…  Until now.  My favorite podcast Rowdy Racing just went subscription fee based.  It’s not a lot at $4.99 a month, but it may start a trend for other podcast providers.

At first I wasn’t going to pay the subscription fee and just live without the daily podcast I became accustomed to, but I ended up subscribing after a 3 day withdrawl.  Rowdy is a very entertaining podcast and they do a great job of preparing for each daily show and have insightful guests and features.  For me it’s worth it.  Keep up the great work, Buck, Bass, The Prof, Linda B., Mark, and all the contributors that make Rowdy the best NASCAR podcast out there!

It will be interesting to see how subscription podcasts play out.