What do Hawthorn legend Dermot Brereton, Fox Footy’s Tiffany Cherry, 3AW’s Clinton Grybas and Neighbours star Blair McDonough have in common?

They are all guests on the new AFL Show recently launched on The Podcast Network.
AFL Show host Pete Lazer joined The Podcast Network on April 1 bringing with him years of experience playing competitive AFL football, a passion for sport and a nine-year career in presenting, modelling and acting.

AFL fans in Australia and around the world are now able to download Aussie Rules Show audio files from www.thepodcastnetwork.com/afl and listen to Pete talk to some of the country’s high profile players, administrators, sports journalists and personalities.

New shows are released each Tuesday, with next week’s special guest to be Melbourne Football Club vice-president Beverly O’Connor.

Booming growth in demand for innovative audio programming has resulted in startling expansion for Australian new media company The Podcast Network.

Launched mid-February to capitalise on a global explosion of portable audio players such as the iPod, the months of March and April saw a show being downloaded every 44 seconds from the network. Since the launch they have had in excess of 165,000 individual shows downloaded from their website, www.thepodcastnetwork.com, by more than 85,000 unique listeners with a new listener being added every 1.7 minutes.

From its sudden emergence in mid 2004, podcasting has spawned more than 5000 new shows, ranging from technology-focused product reviews to sports commentary and ‘chit-chat’ shows.

The Podcast Network has established its own unique stable of titles. An eclectic collection of channels is being developed ranging from business, technology and science to lifestyle, which are all managed and aggregated under the one roof.

Current programs on The Podcast Network include:
• G’Day World
• The BizBlog Show
• The Gadget Show
• The Media Centre Show
• The Mobiles Show
• The Tablet PC Show
• The techAddiction Show
• The Tech Conference Show
• The Microsoft Developer Show
• The Jazz Show
• The Movie Show
• The Rock Show
• The AFL Show
• Claybourne
• The Animal World Show
• The Health Show

Co-founder of The Podcast Network Cameron Reilly said the explosion in growth over such a short period was further evidence that podcasting is emerging as a legitimate threat to terrestrial radio.

“We are now witnessing the rise of Generation C. These are people who have the ability to create and distribute their own content and the desire to listen to their peers,” he said.

Pete said podcasting was new technology that was gaining rapid popularity.

“I don’t know anything about technology but I know a lot about footy,” said Pete.

“The great thing about doing the show as a podcast is that footy lovers can listen to lengthy conversations about footy whenever and wherever they want.”

ENDS

PETE LAZER
After years of playing competitive AFL footy, captaining his school and playing in the prestigious Under 18 competition in Victoria, Pete’s enthusiasm for presenting and hosting events took centre stage from his passion for sport. Now, after a couple of busy years involving co-presenting the new lifestyle show “Let’s Get Wet”, a pilot episode of “5 Minutes with Fame” involving hilarious and revealing insights into some of Australia’s well known celebrities, and several guest appearances on Hot [Source] he is now combining it all on The Podcast Network. Pete is also chief writer for Edge Magazine and was MC of the Olympic Torch Relay and National Grid Girls Final for the F1 Grand Prix.
For more information contact:
Pete Lazer
Email: petelazer@tpg.com.au
Tel : +61 417 301 454

CAMERON REILLY

Cameron Reilly is the co-Founder of The Podcast Network and one of Australia’s most experienced internet and e-business consultants. During his career at Microsoft Australia (1998-2004), he held several key positions designing the sales and delivery strategy of their e-business and internet technologies. Prior to Microsoft, Cameron was a sales manager at OzEmail (1996-98), one of Australia’s leading Internet Service Providers. He designed and executed sales strategies which helped OzEmail double their consumer client base. He has also worked in video production and banking and finance.

For more information contact:
Cameron Reilly
Email: cameronreilly@gmail.com
Mob: +61 400 455334
Tel: +61 3 9687 0236

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