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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 “A View From the Fence.”
Segments will include a Forum discussion that will open up the show for talks and debates on the political issues of the day and also guests will join the show from time to time.
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 name is suited to better describe the direction the show and website have evolved into.
Back Seat Producers will continue to bring movie review and analysis, as well as, featuring discussion about films, both old and new, along with topics in film-making. The title of the podcast also leaves the show open to dip into television and other media.
Back Seat Producers will continue to provide theatrical and DVD reviews and contests, and has recently added news features to its line-up.
In related news:
The Back Seat Producers are thrilled to welcome W. Edward Woodward III to the team as the website’s News Director.
Edward studied commercial art for two years and interned briefly with the Florida Department of Education. He is currently working in logistical support for a major coffee distributor. An accomplished artist and budding author, Edward is currently working to release his own podcast on the life of a geek parent. He brings to us a passion for movies and reporting and a desire to make The Back Seat Producers the definitive podcast for movie news and reviews.
Backseat Producers is produced by Unasked Question, LLC. and distributed by FarPoint Media.
Slice of SciFi’s sister network, the Zombie Channel, is happy to welcome Michael Hickerson as the site’s News Director in charge of the website and all things zombie.
Michael is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a degree in journalism. He’s had a wide and varied career that has included stops as a sports writer/editor, tech supporting, running a software distribution company and delivering live scores and data. He also currently works for the governor’s communications office for the state of Tennessee.
After working as a journalist for Slice of SciFi for a year, Michael was promoted to Assistant News Editor. He now takes on the duties as head writer and News Director for the Zombie Channel.
The Fanboy Smackdown podcast (www.fanboysmackdown.com) recently sponsored a contest with Netflix’s YouTube channel that gave fans of the show six-month subscriptions to Netflix. Each of these subscriptions is valued at over $100.
Thirty subscriptions were awarded to visitors of the website who signed up for Netflix’s YouTube channel and FarPoint Media’s YouTube channel.
Fanboy Smackdown has recently announced that they will change the name of their podcast to the Backseat Producers, but hope to continue the recent string of giveaways to listeners of their podcast and visitors to their website.
Congratulations to the cast and pit crew at FarPoint Media’s Cup Car Update. Their show this past week reached a milestone, hitting 100 laps around the podcast track.
If you love NASCAR then Cup Car Update is your place for all the latest information about the auto sport, and also just plain fun car talk.
Visit Cup Car Update’s Official Website for your best NASCAR News & Information Podcast.
Our very own Slice of SciFi (SoSF) host and FarPoint Media company president, Michael R. Mennenga was recently interviewed by AMC for their official online science fiction blog called SciFi Scanner. They wanted to talk to him about the Slice of SciFi podcast and the phenomenal growth of the Slice of SciFi Website.
The article is a very positive take on our endeavours at SoSF. You can catch the interview by AMC’s Clayton Neuman HERE.
FarPoint Media is happy to announce the launching of its FarPoint Media Video Channel on YouTube. The channel will highlight video entries and features from several of its groundbreaking podcast shows and websites.
The irreverent Wingin’ It 3D blasted off with its first video last week pondering the many facets of preparing and eating chocolate covered cuttlefish.
Also seeing its premiere was the new weekly show “Slice of SciFi Video Headline News” with your news anchors Michael R. Mennenga and Brian Brown showcasing just some of the hundreds of top news stories featured on the Slice of SciFi website each week.
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Beginning March 17, 2008 and running through April 1, FarPoint Media’s webcomics podcast The Gigcast and the band Beatnik Turtle are holding a contest to promote the new Beatnik Turtle CD “Sham Rock.” The entire prize pack will include their new CD as well as a CD containing the popular tribute song to podcaster Joe Murphy titled “Mason Rocket.” The Gigcast will also throw in some items from NightGig Studios.
On March 8th, 2008, Fear the Con was held in St. Charles, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The gaming convention was attended by over 100 people and by all accounts was considered a rousing success for a first year convention.
This convention is notable for a few reasons, first, it was a gaming convention sponsored by a gaming podcast. Fear the Boot, a tabletop RPG podcast, sponsored the event as a way to build the community of gamers who listen to their show and give them a venue whereby people from all over the country could come together and celebrate gaming and the podcast that they enjoy on a weekly basis. Listeners to the show came from Arkansas, Oklahoma, New York, South Carolina, Georgia, Utah and Indiana, just to name a few states.
The convention is also notable because it was the first Fear the Froot. Fear the Froot I was the brainchild of Tony Mast, host of Tony’s Losing It. Tony collected donations in the months leading up to the event and with the support of his friends in the podcast community, listeners of his podcast, the Fear the Boot podcast and others through out the podcasting and gaming communities, he collected over $100 in donations.
Tony was able to make a purchase through a local Farmer’s Market and arrived at the convention with 6 cases of fruit. It’s estimated that there was between 150 and 200 pounds of apples, oranges and bananas on hand at the convention.
Through the course of the day, Tony visited every gaming table two to three times during each four hour gaming block to hand deliver a healthy alternative snack to the gamers and volunteers of the convention.
At the end of the day there were still three cases of fruit but many, many thanks to those who helped to support Fear the Froot I.
The following day, the remaining cases of fruit along with left over concessions from the convention were donated to the Violence Prevention Center of Southwestern Illinois, a shelter that supports women, children and the elderly who leave violent households.
Tony’s Losing It episode #34 details the events of Fear the Froot I from Tony’s perspective.
Fear the Froot will return in October 2008 at Archon, the St. Louis area gaming, science fiction, fantasy and media convention in Collinsville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Fear the Froot II will take place over the three-day convention and already has donations and volunteers enlisted to help out with the event.
Information about Fear the Con and Fear the Boot can be found at www.feartheboot.com.
Tony Mast hosts the Tony’s Losing It, Fanboy Smackdown and Sci-fi Smackdown podcasts. Information for these podcasts can be found at www.tonyslosingit.com, www.fanboysmackdown.com and www.scifismackdown.com respectively.
Information about the Violence Prevention Center of Southwestern Illinois can be found at www.vpcswi.org.
