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Panathinaikos

Panathinaikos Sports Club (Greek: Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos, i.e. Pan-Athenian Athletic Club) is the most historical sport club in Greece.Panathinaikos is the club with the most departments established (21) and most overall titles won by them (482). PAO (Panathinaikos is often referred to by its initials) was founded by George Kalafatis in 1908, when he and forty athletes decided to break away from Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos when the club refused to form a football team. The club emblem is the three-leaf clover in green.

Panathinaikos initially consisted of a single department, the football team. Before the club took the name P.A.O. it was called P.O.A (Athens Football Club). In 1909 it changed to P.P.O. (Panhellenic Football Club) and finally, in 1924 to the well known name of P.A.O. (Panathenian Athletic Club). Over the years Panathinaikos has established departments in 21 sports. Some of them are:

  • Athletics (track and field) and Volleyball, established in 1919
  • Basketball, established in 1922
    • The basketball team is a major force on the European stage, having won the continent's top club competition, the Euroleague, three times (1996, 2000, 2002)
  • Table-Tennis, established in 1924
  • Cycling, established in 1928
  • Swimming and Water Polo, established in 1930
  • Boxing, established in 1946
  • Diving, established in 1947
  • Chess and Weightlifting, established in 1959
  • Fencing, established in 1960
  • Gymnastics, established in 1962
  • Water Skiing, established in 1963
  • Wrestling, established in 1965

Football

Panathinaikos team at Wembley Stadium, 1971

Panathinaikos is one of the most successful greek football clubs, playing consistently in European competitions. They have participated in one European Champions Cup Final (1971 at Wembley Stadium, London, where they lost 2-0 to Ajax Amsterdam) and have twice reached the semifinals of the same competition (later renamed the Champions' League): in 1985 against Liverpool (0-4, 0-1) and in 1996 against Ajax (1 - 0, 0 - 3).

Titles

(40)

19 Greek Championships (1930, 1949,1953, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2004)

16 Greek Cups (1940, 1948, 1955, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2004)

7 Doubles (1969, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1995, 2004)

4 Super Cups (1970, 1988, 1993, 1994)

1 Balkan Cup (1978)

Famous football players

Antonis Antoniadis, Stratos Apostolakis, Angelos Basinas, Georgios Delikaris, Mimis Domazos, Giorgos Donis, Kostas Eleftherakis, Panagiotis Fissas, Kostas Frantzeskos, Mike Galakos, Giorgos Georgiadis, Takis Ikonomopoulos, George Kalafatis, Ioannis Kalitzakis, Aristidis Kamaras, Giorgos Kapouranis, Anthimos Kapsis, Giorgos Karagounis, Ioannis Kirastas, Sotiris Kirjakos, Kostas Linoxilakis, Spiros Livathinos, Takis Loukanidis, Spiros Marangos, Angelos Messaris, Antonis Miyiakis, Apostolos Nikolaidis, Antonios Nikopolidis, Nikos Nioplias, Loukas Panourgias, Michalis Papazoglou, Mimis Pierrakos, Nikos Sarganis, Dimitris Saravakos, Giourkas Seitaridis, Kostas Tsiklitiras, Nikos Vamvakoulas

Juan Ramon Veron, Oscar Alvarez, Juan Ramon Rotcha, Juan Jose Borelli

Júlio César da Silva, Flávio Conceição

Rene Henriksen, Jan Michaelsen

Karlheinz Pflipsen, Markus Münch

Velimir Zajec, Aljoša Asanović, Robert Jarni, Goran Vlaovic

Jonas Kolkka

Eric Mykland

Krzysztof Warzycha, Josef Wantzik, Emmanuel Olisadebe

Paolo Sousa

Actual Roster


Basketball

History

The name of Panathinaikos refers to a word in the top and most legendary team of Greece, which is far ahead from the second team. Twenty six championships, eight Greek Cups, three Cups Champions Cups (or Euroleague, as it has been called the top inter-club competition the last years) and one Inter-continental, are in brief the palmare of the top Greek club, that is accustomed to be the main actor in Greece and in Europe.

Within its 93 years of duration (the team was founded in 1908), Panathinaikos has filled "golden pages of glory", it has made great players known-that the reference to them can not be limited in just a few lines - and widely known team officials (in the "top of the pyramis" are undoubtedly Pavlos and Thanassis Giannakopoulos), certain of the "legends" of world basket have played with the club (see Dominique Wilkins, Byron Scott, Dino Radja, Dejan Bodiroga, Nikos Galis, Panagiotis Giannakis, Stojan Vrankovic, Fanis Christodoulou and many others), and generally the name of Panathinaikos refers to repute, prestige, power (playing and financial power), triumphs, successes.

The course of Panathinaikos in the European Cups commences in 1961-62, within the bounds of the Cup Champions Cup of the time, it played against Chapoel T.A. in the first round by which it was knocked out (72-84, 56-82). In this course of 39 years ending at this year's final game in Paris (PAO-Maccabi 67-81), the team has performed significant distinctions that fairly rank it among the top clubs of Europe. Certainly, the total reward was the two wins of the top European title. On April 1996 in Paris Panathinaiokos was the first Greek team bringing the European Championship in Greece, winning FC Barcelona in a unique final tournament by 67-66. On September of the same year the team also won the Inter-continental cup, prevailing by 2-1 wins over Olympia of Argentina (83-89, 83-78, 101-76). [2000] in Thesaloniki Panathinaikos was the champion of Europe for the second time winning Maccabi by 73-67 in the final. 2002 year in Bologna Panathinaikos was the champion of Europe for the third time winning Kinder Bologna by 89-83 in the final. Furthermore, the participations of the team in the Final Four held in Tel-Aviv worth mentioning (1994) and in Zaragoza (1995). Other significant successes are: the two participations in the semifinals of the Winners Cup (1969, 1998), the course up to the semi-finals of the Cup Champions Cup for the season 1971-72 (exclusion of the mighty team Inis Varese (78-70, 55-69). In the season of 1981-82, Panathinaikos participated in the finals of the Cup Champions Cup of that time, excluding consecutively CSKA Moscow and Lefski Sofia teams.

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1 Intercontinental Cup (1996)

3 European Championships(Euroleague) (1996, 2000, 2002)

26 Greek Championships (1947, 1951, 1954, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005)

8 Greek Cups (1979, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1993, 1996, 2003, 2005)

3 Women's Greek Championships (1998, 2000, 2005)

1 Women's Greek Cup (2000)

Famous basketball players

Liveris Andritsos, Nikos Boudouris, Fanis Christodoulou, Antonios Fotsis, Nikos Galis, Panagiotis Giannakis, Giannis Giannoulis, Nikos Ikonomou, John Korfas, Lazaros Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Patavoukas, David Stergakos

Marcelo Nicola, Hugo Sconochini, Pepe Sanchez

Arian Komazec, Stojan Vrankovic, Dino Radja

John Amaechi

Michael Koch, Sascha Hupmann

Odded Katash

Nando Gentile

Zarko Paspalj, Dejan Bodiroga, Zeljko Rebraca

Ferran Martinez

Ibrahim Kutluay

Alexander Volkov

Antonio Davis, Dominique Wilkins, Byron Dinkins, John Salley, Byron Scott, Johnny Rodgers, Darryl Middleton, Ariel McDonald, Tracy Murray

Actual Roster


Volleyball

History

Since the year of its foundation in 1908, Panathinaikos has been one of the first athletic associations that created a volleyball club in Greece. The first dynamic presence of the team is dated in the years 1927 – 29 with many popular players of the time such as the historical member of the board Apostolos Nikolaidis as well as players such as Aravositas, Gkoumas, Arg. Nikolaidis, Papageorgiou and Papastefanou. In the following years the interest for volleyball became less until before the 2nd Word War when Panathinaikos presented a powerful team with leader players such as Labrou, Vallidis, Momferatos, Tzoumanis, Proselentis, Lykouris, Kakridis k.a.

In the recent history, the volleyball club has demonstrated many titles and honors due to the fact that the team roster has always included some of the leading volleyball players. The first and most popular generation of players of 60’s was Andreas and Nikos Bergeles, as well as Iliopoulos, Leloudas, Chasapis, Emmanouil, Perros and Fotiou who opened the road for the next generations. The most important achievement of the team was the participation in the final of the European Cup in 1980 with players such as Georgantis, Agrapidakis, Koliopoulos, Iliopoulos, Papadopoulos, Malousaris, Gkountakos, Astras and Kokkinaras. The following years Panathinaikos team has continued to dominate the Greek championship with players such as Kazazis, Tentzeris, Gontikas, Galakos, Dimitriadis, Margaronis, Karamaroudis and Andreopoulos.

One of the most successful periods were also the seasons 1994-95 and 1995-96 where Panathinaikos won 2 championships in a raw with Stelios Prosalikas as head coach and Andreopoulos, Triantafillidis, Filippof, Spanos, Hatziantoniou, Oyzounof, A. Kovatsef, P. Kovatsef, Karamaroudis, Mavrakis, Konstantinidis, Zakynthinos, Koutouleas, Tonef as players.

Today, after a difficult period for the team, Panathinaikos reached the top again. The administration, the coaching team, players, fans and supporters acted as the biggest guarantee for the cause but most important the long-lasting history which «condemns» the club to be an eternal leader.

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17 Greek Championships (1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1995, 1996, 2004)

3 Greek Cups (1982, 1984, 1985)

3 Doubles (1982, 1984, 1985)

18 Women's Greek Championships (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2005)

1 Women's Greek Cup (2005)

1 Double (2005)

Famous volleyball players who played for Panathinaikos

Dimitris Kazazis, Tasos Tentzeris, Akis Chatziantoniou.

Plamen Konstantinov

Andre Nascimento, Cleber De Oliveira

Dalibor Polak

Fabrice Bry

Dawid Murek

Clayton Stanley

Actual Roster


Titles in other Departments

Table Tennis

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  • Greek Championship Men Single (30x): 1930, 1931, 1940, 1951, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1959 [Mantzaroglou], 1961, 1964, 1966, 1972, 1973, 1973 [A Category], 1974, 1974 [A Category], 1975, 1975 [A Category], 1975 [Mantzaroglou], 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1986 [A Category], 1987, 1988
  • Greek Championship Women Single (18x): 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1959 [Mantzaroglou], 1959 [Spring], 1972, 1972 [A Category], 1973, 1973 [A Category], 1974, 1974 [A Category], 1976, 1976 [A Category], 1976 [Mantzaroglou]
  • Greek Championship Men Double (21x): 1940, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988
  • Greek Championship Women Double (6x): 1953, 1954, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975
  • Greek Championship Men-Women Double (14x): 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1986
  • Greek Club's Championship - Overall Standings (7x): 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1962
  • Greek Club's Championship Men (6x): 1959, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1974
  • Greek Club's Championship Women (3x): 1972, 1973, 1974
  • Greek Cup Men (6x): 1966, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1982
  • Greek Cup Women (1x): 1969

Athletics

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  • Greek Championship (23x): 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1989, 1990
  • Greek Indoor Championship (4x): 1986, 1989, 1990, 1994
  • Greek Cross Country Championship (25x): 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1996, 1997, 1998
  • Greek Championship (Damen) (2x): 1949, 1950
  • Greek Cross Country Championshipn (Damen) (5x): 1949, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986

Cycling

(51)

  • Greek Championship (7x): 1956, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1973
  • Greek Championship (Street) (29x): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1997
  • Greek Championship (Velodrom) (15x): 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990

Boxing

(27)

  • Greek Championship (26x): 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997
  • Greek Cup (1x): 1988

Fencing

(27)

  • Greek Team Championship (11x): 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974
  • Greek Championship (16x): 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980

Diving

(26)

  • Greek Championship (Men, 5m. board) (19x): 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981
  • Greek Championship (Men, 3m. board) (6x): 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976
  • Greek Championship (Men, Total Standings) (1x): 1965

Archery

(15)

  • Greek Championship (Men and Women) (5x): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
  • Greek Championship (5x): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
  • Greek Championship Standard Bow (1x): 1993
  • Greek Championship Women (4x): 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986

Swimming

(13)

  • Greek Championship (13x): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968

Shooting

(9)

  • Greek Team - Championship (8x): 1960, 1964, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1991
  • Greek Military Championship (1x): 1948

Chess

(8)

  • Greek Championship (7x): 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1976
  • Greek Cup (1x): 1972

Weightlifting

(6)

  • Greek Championship (6x): 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969

Pentathlon

(2)

  • Greek Championship (2x): 1980, 1987

Wrestling

(2)

  • Greek Championship (2x): 1982, 1984

Gymnastics

(1)

  • Greek Championship (1x): 1972

Water Ski

(1)

  • Greek Championship (1x): 1968

Futsal

(1)

  • Greek Championship (1x): 1991

(Sources: Panathinaikos 1908-1998 from Panos Fiamengos and the website of the Greek National "General Secretariat for Sports")

Most popular fan clubs are: Gate 13, Independents, Athens Fans, Cockneys and PALEFIP.


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Plamen Konstantinov. London's LBC 97.3 has launched the s first paid-for podcasting service [2]. Dimitris Kazazis, Tasos Tentzeris, Akis Chatziantoniou. That summer, when the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation locked out more than 5,000 of its regular on-air and technical staff, they responded by creating their own unofficial podcast of original programming, CBC Unplugged, which also appeared on some campus and community radio stations, including CIUT in Toronto and CFRU in Guelph, Ontario. 1 Double (2005). The entire format of KYOU Radio, a San Francisco radio station, became based around broadcasting Podcasts. 1 Women's Greek Cup (2005). On March 30 Sirius Satellite began playing Wichita Rutherford's podcast 5 Minutes with Wichita making him the first person who started out as a podcaster to find a home on Satellite Radio.

18 Women's Greek Championships (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2005). In late March, 2005, the trend began to go the other way, with podcasts becoming a source of content for broadcast radio programs by Leo Laporte, Christopher Lydon and others. 3 Doubles (1982, 1984, 1985). In May, Sydney station 2MBS became the first Australian community radio station to deliver content via the format, when its Ultima Thule ambient music programme was made available as a podcast. 3 Greek Cups (1982, 1984, 1985). In April 2005 the BBC announced it was extending the trial to twenty more programs, including music radio[40] and in the same month Australia's ABC launched a podcasting trial across several of its national stations[41]. 17 Greek Championships (1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1995, 1996, 2004). March saw Virgin Radio become the first UK radio station to produce a daily podcast of its popular breakfast show.

(39). United States National Public Radio member stations WNYC and KCRW adopted the format for many of their productions. The administration, the coaching team, players, fans and supporters acted as the biggest guarantee for the cause but most important the long-lasting history which «condemns» the club to be an eternal leader. The CBC trial also included CBC Radio 3's Canadian Music Podcast as well as limited podcasting of CBLA's popular Metro Morning Toronto show. Today, after a difficult period for the team, Panathinaikos reached the top again. Also in January 2005, CBC Radio began a trial with its weekly national science and technology show Quirks and Quarks[39], which has offered listeners Real Audio, MP3 and OGG downloads since February 1996. Kovatsef, Karamaroudis, Mavrakis, Konstantinidis, Zakynthinos, Koutouleas, Tonef as players. These trials were extended in January 2005 to BBC Radio 4's In Our Time[38].

Kovatsef, P. The BBC began a trial in October 2004 with BBC Radio Five Live's Fighting Talk. One of the most successful periods were also the seasons 1994-95 and 1995-96 where Panathinaikos won 2 championships in a raw with Stelios Prosalikas as head coach and Andreopoulos, Triantafillidis, Filippof, Spanos, Hatziantoniou, Oyzounof, A. While there had been experimental feeds of radio broadcast material, such as Dave Slusher's August 2004 feed of WREK programs from Georgia Tech[36], the American syndicated radio show Web Talk Radio[37] apparently became the first to adopt the format on a regular basis, in September 2004, followed within weeks by Seattle news radio station KOMO and by individual programs from KFI Los Angeles and Boston's WGBH. The following years Panathinaikos team has continued to dominate the Greek championship with players such as Kazazis, Tentzeris, Gontikas, Galakos, Dimitriadis, Margaronis, Karamaroudis and Andreopoulos. Traditional broadcasters were extremely quick to pick up on the podcasting format, especially those whose news or talk formats spared them the complications of music licensing. The most important achievement of the team was the participation in the final of the European Cup in 1980 with players such as Georgantis, Agrapidakis, Koliopoulos, Iliopoulos, Papadopoulos, Malousaris, Gkountakos, Astras and Kokkinaras. The show, produced by the Guardian Unlimited and hosted by Positive Internet maintained an average of over a quarter of a million downloads per weekly episode.

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The first dynamic presence of the team is dated in the years 1927 – 29 with many popular players of the time such as the historical member of the board Apostolos Nikolaidis as well as players such as Aravositas, Gkoumas, Arg. In November 2005 the Podcast News Network was launched that focuses on news and world events to include Sports, Business, Lifestyle, Politics, Religion and World and US National News. Since the year of its foundation in 1908, Panathinaikos has been one of the first athletic associations that created a volleyball club in Greece. On December 3, 2005 Sony Computer Entertainment America announced that the PlayStation Portable would support podcasting using the RSS Channel feature after upgrading to 2.60.
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Arian Komazec, Stojan Vrankovic, Dino Radja. In July 2005 the first People's Choice Podcast Awards were held during Podcast Expo. Marcelo Nicola, Hugo Sconochini, Pepe Sanchez. Apple also promoted creation of podcasts using its GarageBand and Quicktime Pro software and the MPEG 4, m4a audio format instead of mp3. Liveris Andritsos, Nikos Boudouris, Fanis Christodoulou, Antonios Fotsis, Nikos Galis, Panagiotis Giannakis, Giannis Giannoulis, Nikos Ikonomou, John Korfas, Lazaros Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Patavoukas, David Stergakos. The new iTunes could subscribe to, download and organize podcasts, which made a separate aggregator application unnecessary for many users. 1 Women's Greek Cup (2000). In June, 2005, Apple staked its claim on the medium by adding podcasting to its free iTunes 4.9 music software and building a directory of podcasts at its iTunes Music Store.

3 Women's Greek Championships (1998, 2000, 2005). Some experienced Internet users declared podcasting to be either nothing special (just a variant of blogs and mp3s), or already past its peak (because of growing exposure, and/or adoption by unsavvy Internet users). 8 Greek Cups (1979, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1993, 1996, 2003, 2005). By mid-2005, the medium had acquired backlash. 26 Greek Championships (1947, 1951, 1954, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005). In May 2005 the first book on podcasting was released, the award-winning Podcasting The Do it Yourself Guide, by Todd Cochrane. 3 European Championships(Euroleague) (1996, 2000, 2002). Bush became a podcaster of sorts, when the White House website added an RSS 2.0 feed to the previously downloadable files of the president's weekly radio addresses[34].

1 Intercontinental Cup (1996). President George W. (42). Later in the summer of 2005, U.S. In the season of 1981-82, Panathinaikos participated in the finals of the Cup Champions Cup of that time, excluding consecutively CSKA Moscow and Lefski Sofia teams. Within a few episodes, the show had all the features of a major podcast: a web site with subscription feeds and show notes, guest appearances, questions from the audience, reviews and discussion of books, musical interludes of podsafe (noninfringing) songs, light banter (sports and recreation talk), even limited soundseeing from on location. Other significant successes are: the two participations in the semifinals of the Winners Cup (1969, 1998), the course up to the semi-finals of the Cup Champions Cup for the season 1971-72 (exclusion of the mighty team Inis Varese (78-70, 55-69). In March of 2005, John Edwards became the first national-level US politician to hold his own podcast[33].

Furthermore, the participations of the team in the Final Four held in Tel-Aviv worth mentioning (1994) and in Zaragoza (1995). The first was the Tech Podcasts Network, followed by the Association of Music Podcasters and others. 2002 year in Bologna Panathinaikos was the champion of Europe for the third time winning Kinder Bologna by 89-83 in the final. In February 2005, podcasting networks started to appear on the scene with podcasters affiliating with one another. [2000] in Thesaloniki Panathinaikos was the champion of Europe for the second time winning Maccabi by 73-67 in the final. After Dawn and Drew, such "couplecasts" became quite popular among independent podcasts (those not derived from a preexisting radio show). On September of the same year the team also won the Inter-continental cup, prevailing by 2-1 wins over Olympia of Argentina (83-89, 83-78, 101-76). Those Top Ten programs gave further indication of podcast topics: four were about technology (including Curry's Daily Source Code, which also included music and personal chat), three were about music, one about movies, one about politics, and—at the time number 1 on the list—The Dawn and Drew Show, described as "married-couple banter," a program format that USA Today noted was popular on American broadcast radio in the 1940s.

On April 1996 in Paris Panathinaiokos was the first Greek team bringing the European Championship in Greece, winning FC Barcelona in a unique final tournament by 67-66. The newspaper quoted one directory as listing 3,300 podcast programs in February, 2005. Certainly, the total reward was the two wins of the top European title. USA Today told its readers about the "free amateur chatfests" the following February [31][32], profiling several podcasters, giving instructions for sending and receiving podcasts, and including a "Top Ten" list from one of the many podcast directories that had sprung up. In this course of 39 years ending at this year's final game in Paris (PAO-Maccabi 67-81), the team has performed significant distinctions that fairly rank it among the top clubs of Europe. Capturing the early distribution and variety of podcasts was more difficult than counting Google hits, but before the end of October, The New York Times had reported podcasts across the United States and in Canada, Australia and Sweden, mentioning podcast topics from technology to veganism to movie reviews[30]. in the first round by which it was knocked out (72-84, 56-82). On October 11, 2004 the first phonetic search engine for podcasting was launched called Podkey to assist podcasters to easily connect to each other.

The course of Panathinaikos in the European Cups commences in 1961-62, within the bounds of the Cup Champions Cup of the time, it played against Chapoel T.A. A year later, Google found more than 100,000,000 hits on the word "podcasts.". Within its 93 years of duration (the team was founded in 1908), Panathinaikos has filled "golden pages of glory", it has made great players known-that the reference to them can not be limited in just a few lines - and widely known team officials (in the "top of the pyramis" are undoubtedly Pavlos and Thanassis Giannakopoulos), certain of the "legends" of world basket have played with the club (see Dominique Wilkins, Byron Scott, Dino Radja, Dejan Bodiroga, Nikos Galis, Panagiotis Giannakis, Stojan Vrankovic, Fanis Christodoulou and many others), and generally the name of Panathinaikos refers to repute, prestige, power (playing and financial power), triumphs, successes. The number doubled every few days, passing 100,000 by October 18. Twenty six championships, eight Greek Cups, three Cups Champions Cups (or Euroleague, as it has been called the top inter-club competition the last years) and one Inter-continental, are in brief the palmare of the top Greek club, that is accustomed to be the main actor in Greece and in Europe. There were 526 hits on September 30, then 2,750 three days later. The name of Panathinaikos refers to a word in the top and most legendary team of Greece, which is far ahead from the second team. On that day, the result was 24 hits[29].


. Fellow blogger and technology columnist Doc Searls began keeping track of how many "hits" Google found for the word "podcasts" on September 28, 2004. Paolo Sousa. The word about podcasting rapidly spread through the already-popular weblogs of Curry, Winer and other early podcasters and podcast-listeners. Krzysztof Warzycha, Josef Wantzik, Emmanuel Olisadebe. The first radio show to publish in this format was Web Talk Guys, produced by Rob and Dana Greenlee. Eric Mykland. Besides scheduling and recording audio, one of the features was a Direct Download link, which would scan a radio publishers site for new files and copy them directly to a PC's hard disk.

Jonas Kolkka. In 2001, Applian Technologies of San Francisco, CA introduced Replay Radio, a TiVo-like recorder for Internet Radio Shows. Velimir Zajec, Aljoša Asanović, Robert Jarni, Goran Vlaovic. Archive.org has an August 2000 snapshot of the MyAudio2Go site. Karlheinz Pflipsen, Markus Münch. The service lasted over a year, but succumbed when the I2Go company ran out of capital during the dotcom crash and folded. Rene Henriksen, Jan Michaelsen. There were dozens of focused daily feeds covering national news, business news, entertainment news, even a recap of the previous days TV shows.

Júlio César da Silva, Flávio Conceição. The eGo's file transfer application could be programmed to pull down specific feeds to a user's PC every evening. Juan Ramon Veron, Oscar Alvarez, Juan Ramon Rotcha, Juan Jose Borelli. To supply content for its players the I2Go company, makers of the eGo player, introduced a digital news service called MyAudio2Go.com that created daily audio news feeds users could download to the eGo or any other MP3 player. Antonis Antoniadis, Stratos Apostolakis, Angelos Basinas, Georgios Delikaris, Mimis Domazos, Giorgos Donis, Kostas Eleftherakis, Panagiotis Fissas, Kostas Frantzeskos, Mike Galakos, Giorgos Georgiadis, Takis Ikonomopoulos, George Kalafatis, Ioannis Kalitzakis, Aristidis Kamaras, Giorgos Kapouranis, Anthimos Kapsis, Giorgos Karagounis, Ioannis Kirastas, Sotiris Kirjakos, Kostas Linoxilakis, Spiros Livathinos, Takis Loukanidis, Spiros Marangos, Angelos Messaris, Antonis Miyiakis, Apostolos Nikolaidis, Antonios Nikopolidis, Nikos Nioplias, Loukas Panourgias, Michalis Papazoglou, Mimis Pierrakos, Nikos Sarganis, Dimitris Saravakos, Giourkas Seitaridis, Kostas Tsiklitiras, Nikos Vamvakoulas. A fully-conceived precursor to podcasting came from another early MP3 player manufacturer. 1 Balkan Cup (1978). Called PocketDJ, it would have been launched as a service for the Personal Jukebox or a successor, the first hard-disk based MP3-player.

4 Super Cups (1970, 1988, 1993, 1994). Independent of the development of podcasting via RSS, a portable player and music download system had been developed at Compaq Research as early as 1999 or 2000. 7 Doubles (1969, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1995, 2004). The development of downloaded music did not reach a critical mass until the launch of Napster, another system of aggregating music, but without the subscription services provided by podcasting or video blogging aggregation client or system software. 16 Greek Cups (1940, 1948, 1955, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2004). There were a few websites that provided audio subscription services. 19 Greek Championships (1930, 1949,1953, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2004). Many other jukeboxes and websites in the mid 1990's provided a system for sorting and selecting music or audio files, talk, segue announcements of different digtal formats.

(40). The MBone was a multicast network over the Internet used primarily by educational and research institutes, but there were audio talk programs[28]. They have participated in one European Champions Cup Final (1971 at Wembley Stadium, London, where they lost 2-0 to Ajax Amsterdam) and have twice reached the semifinals of the same competition (later renamed the Champions' League): in 1985 against Liverpool (0-4, 0-1) and in 1996 against Ajax (1 - 0, 0 - 3). Prior to online music digital distribution, the midi format as well as the Mbone, Multicast Network was used to distribute audio and video files. Panathinaikos is one of the most successful greek football clubs, playing consistently in European competitions. Prior to the Internet, in the 1970s, RCS, Radio Computing Services, provided music and talk related software to radio stations in a digital format. Some of them are:. In November of 2005, they signed a Network wide sponsorship deal with Motorola.

Over the years Panathinaikos has established departments in 21 sports. Reilly described his vision for the network to be the Time Warner of New media. (Panathenian Athletic Club). In Feburary 2005, Australians Cameron Reilly and Mick Stanic started what was the first Commercial Podcast Network, The Podcast network. (Panhellenic Football Club) and finally, in 1924 to the well known name of P.A.O. By October 2004, detailed how-to podcast articles[27] had begun to appear online, and a month later, liberated syndication libsyn launched what was apparently the first Podcast Service Provider, offering storage, bandwidth, and RSS creation tools. In 1909 it changed to P.P.O. In September 2004, Curry launched an ipodder-dev mailing list, then Slashdot had a 100+ message discussion[26], bringing even more attention to the ipodder developer projects in progress at SourceForge.

it was called P.O.A (Athens Football Club). The use of 'podcast' by Gregoire was picked up by podcasting evangelists such as Dave Slusher[24], Winer[25] and Curry, and entered common usage. Before the club took the name P.A.O. podcast.net). Panathinaikos initially consisted of a single department, the football team. In September of 2004, Dannie Gregoire also used the term to describe the automatic download[23] and synchronization of audio content; he also registered several 'podcast' related domains (e.g. The club emblem is the three-leaf clover in green. But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting? GuerillaMedia?")[22].

PAO (Panathinaikos is often referred to by its initials) was founded by George Kalafatis in 1908, when he and forty athletes decided to break away from Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos when the club refused to form a football team. The term "podcasting" was one of several terms for portable listening to audioblogs suggested by Ben Hammersley in The Guardian on February 12, 2004, referring to Lydon's interview programs ("...all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio. Pan-Athenian Athletic Club) is the most historical sport club in Greece.Panathinaikos is the club with the most departments established (21) and most overall titles won by them (482). Shortly thereafter, another group (iSpider) rebranded their software as iPodder and released it under that name as Free Software. Panathinaikos Sports Club (Greek: Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos, i.e. While many of the early efforts remained command-line based, the first podcasting client with a user interface was iPodderX, developed by August Trometer and Ray Slakinski and released in mid-September, 2004. Greek Championship (1x): 1991. The iPodder idea was picked up by multiple developer groups.

Greek Championship (1x): 1968. After the conference, Curry offered his blog readers an RSStoiPod[21] script that moved mp3 files from Userland Radio to iTunes, and encouraged other developers to build on the idea. Greek Championship (1x): 1972. Curry and Marks discussed collaborating. Greek Championship (2x): 1982, 1984. CDs of Lydon's interviews were distributed as an example of the high-quality MP3 content enclosures could deliver[18]; Bob Doyle demonstrated the portable studio he helped Lydon develop[19]; Harold Gilchrist presented a history of audioblogging, including Curry's early role, and Kevin Marks demonstrated a script to download RSS enclosures and pass them to iTunes for transfer to an iPod[20]. Greek Championship (2x): 1980, 1987. A month later, in October of 2003, Winer and friends organized the first Bloggercon weblogger conference at Berkman Center.

Greek Championship (6x): 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969. Not long after, Pete Prodoehl released a skin for the Amphetadesk aggregator that displayed enclosure links[17]. Greek Cup (1x): 1972. Announcing the feed in his weblog, Winer challenged other aggregator developers to support this new form of content and provide enclosure support. Greek Championship (7x): 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1976. Lydon, a former New York Times reporter and NPR talkshow host, had posted 25 in-depth interviews with bloggers, futurists and political figures, which Winer gradually released to the feed[16]. Greek Military Championship (1x): 1948. In September 2003, Winer created a special RSS-with-enclosures feed for his Harvard Berkman Center colleague Christopher Lydon's weblog, which previously had a text-only RSS feed.

Greek Team - Championship (8x): 1960, 1964, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1991. Ed Radio scanned RSS feeds for MP3 files, collected them into a single feed, and made the result available as SMIL or Webjay audio feeds. Greek Championship (13x): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968. While few developers of RSS-capable blogging software or aggregators made use of the enclosure element, in June 2003, Stephen Downes demonstrated aggregation and syndication of audio files in his Ed Radio application[15]. Greek Championship Women (4x): 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986. All that was needed for "podcasting" was a way to automatically move audio files from Radio Userland's download folder to an audio player (either software or hardware [1]) -- along with enough compelling audio to make such automation worth the trouble. Greek Championship Standard Bow (1x): 1993. Since Radio Userland had a built-in aggregator, it provided both the "send" and "receive" components of what was then called audioblogging[13][14].

Greek Championship (5x): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986. Winer's company incorporated the new feature in its weblogging product, Radio Userland, the program favored by Curry, audioblogger Harold Gilchrist and others. Greek Championship (Men and Women) (5x): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986. For its first two years, the enclosure element had relatively few users. Greek Championship (Men, Total Standings) (1x): 1965. Winer demonstrated how the feature would work by enclosing a Grateful Dead song in his Scripting News weblog on January 11th, 2001[12]. board) (6x): 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976. He included the new functionality in RSS 0.92[9], by defining a new element[10] called "enclosure"[11], which would simply pass the address of a media file to the RSS aggregator.

Greek Championship (Men, 3m. Winer had discussed the concept, also in October 2000, with Adam Curry[8], a user of his software, as well as having other customer requests for audioblogging features. board) (19x): 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981. The concept was proposed in a draft by Tristan Louis in October, 2000[7], and implemented in somewhat different form by Dave Winer, a software developer and an author of the RSS format. Greek Championship (Men, 5m. What makes podcasting unique from other digital audio and video delivery is the use of syndication feed enclosures. Greek Championship (16x): 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980. The downloaded episodes can then be played, replayed, or archived as with any other computer file.

Greek Team Championship (11x): 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974. (This is only the typical behavior of a podcatcher; some podcatchers behave—or can be set to behave—differently.). Greek Cup (1x): 1988. Some podcatchers, such as iTunes, also automatically make the newly downloaded episodes available to a user's portable media player. Greek Championship (26x): 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997. If the feed data has substantively changed from when it was previously checked (or if the feed was just added to the podcatcher's list), the program determines the location of the most recent episode and automatically downloads it to the user's computer. Greek Championship (Velodrom) (15x): 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990. It manages a set of feed URIs added by the user and downloads each at a specified interval, such as every two hours.

Greek Championship (Street) (29x): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1997. A podcatcher is usually an always-on program which starts when the computer is started and runs in the background. Greek Championship (7x): 1956, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1973. This program retrieves and processes data from the feed URI. Greek Cross Country Championshipn (Damen) (5x): 1949, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986. A consumer enters this feed URI into a software program called a podcatcher or aggregator (the former term is specific to podcasting while the latter is general to all programs which collect news from feeds). Greek Championship (Damen) (2x): 1949, 1950. The content provider makes this feed URI known to the intended audience.

Greek Cross Country Championship (25x): 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1996, 1997, 1998. This location is known as the feed URI (or, perhaps more often, feed URL). Greek Indoor Championship (4x): 1986, 1989, 1990, 1994. (Unlike the episode file itself, the feed is published to a webserver, usually not by other means.) The location at which the feed is posted is expected to be permanent. Greek Championship (23x): 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1989, 1990. The content provider posts the feed to a known location on a webserver. Greek Cup Women (1x): 1969. The feed may contain entries for all episodes in the series, but is typically limited to a short list of the most recent episodes, as is the case with many news feeds.

Greek Cup Men (6x): 1966, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1982. This list is usually published in RSS format, which provides other information, such as publish dates, titles, and accompanying text descriptions of the series and each of its episodes. Greek Club's Championship Women (3x): 1972, 1973, 1974. The feed is a machine-readable list of the URIs by which episodes of the show may be accessed. Greek Club's Championship Men (6x): 1959, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1974. The content provider then acknowledges the existence of that file by referencing it in another file known as the feed. Greek Club's Championship - Overall Standings (7x): 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1962. This file is often referred to as one episode of a podcast.

Greek Championship Men-Women Double (14x): 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1986. The only requirement is that the file be accessible through some known URI (a general-purpose Internet address). Greek Championship Women Double (6x): 1953, 1954, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975. This is usually done by posting the file on a publicly-available webserver; however, BitTorrent trackers also have been used, and it is not technically necessary that the file be publicly accessible. Greek Championship Men Double (21x): 1940, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988. The content provider begins by making a file (for example, an MP3 audio file) available on the Internet. Greek Championship Women Single (18x): 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1959 [Mantzaroglou], 1959 [Spring], 1972, 1972 [A Category], 1973, 1973 [A Category], 1974, 1974 [A Category], 1976, 1976 [A Category], 1976 [Mantzaroglou]. A podcast is generally analogous to a recorded television or radio series.

Greek Championship Men Single (30x): 1930, 1931, 1940, 1951, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1959 [Mantzaroglou], 1961, 1964, 1966, 1972, 1973, 1973 [A Category], 1974, 1974 [A Category], 1975, 1975 [A Category], 1975 [Mantzaroglou], 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1986 [A Category], 1987, 1988. In general, these files contain audio or video, but also could be images, text, PDF, or any file type. Wrestling, established in 1965. Podcasting is an automatic mechanism by which multimedia computer files are transferred from a server to a client which pulls down XML files containing the Internet addresses of the media files. Water Skiing, established in 1963. Earlier Internet "push" services (e.g., PointCast) allowed a much more limited selection of content. Gymnastics, established in 1962. While the user is not "pulling" individual files from the Web, there is a strong "pull" aspect in that the receiver is free to subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) a vast array of channels.

Fencing, established in 1960. The publish/subscribe model of podcasting is a version of push technology, in that the information provider chooses which files to offer in a feed and the subscriber chooses among available feed channels. Chess and Weightlifting, established in 1959. As use of RSS enclosures for video spread in 2005, podcasting of video data was called, among other things, "video blogging", "video podcasting", "vlogging", "vodcasting", or "vidcasting". Diving, established in 1947. Podcasting as a medium was first associated with, but never limited to, audio data. Boxing, established in 1946. Other terms have been suggested, but had shortcomings -- "audioblogging," "audio magazines" and "webcasting" could describe other forms of media distribution, and "rsscasting," would be difficult to pronounce.

Swimming and Water Polo, established in 1930. Another Apple rival in the portable audio and video market, Creative Technology, began using the "Personal On Demand" interpretation, while offering its own "Zencasts."[6]. Cycling, established in 1928. [3] The "Personal On Demand" interpretation was in international circulation as early as October 2004.[4] In July 2005, Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble mentioned that interpretation while countering reports that his company was pushing the word "blogcasting" to avoid mentioning an Apple product.[5] "Blogcasting" also implied content based on, or similar in format to, blogs, which was not always the case. Table-Tennis, established in 1924. From the beginning various writers suggested other names or alternative interpretations of the letters "P-O-D." Technology writer Doc Searls had proposed "Personal Option Digital" in September, 2004. The basketball team is a major force on the European stage, having won the continent's top club competition, the Euroleague, three times (1996, 2000, 2002). The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005 word of the year in December, defining the term as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player".[2].

Basketball, established in 1922

    . However, the use of the "pod" name in 2004 probably played a part [1] in Apple's development of podcasting products and services in 2005, further linking the device and the activity in the news media. Athletics (track and field) and Volleyball, established in 1919. The name association came about simply because Apple Computer's iPod was the best-selling portable digital audio player when podcasting began and was used by early practitioners. Neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or other portable player, and no over-the-air broadcasting is required. "Podcasting" is a portmanteau word coined in 2004 (see "History" below), that combined two words: "iPod" and "broadcasting.".

    (This difference may make a podcast legally distinct from a webcast or streamed media file.). Although streamed programs, like broadcast radio signals, can be recorded or captured by the receiver, their transient nature distinguishes them from podcast episodes, which arrive already in archived form. Unlike podcasts, streaming also can be used to broadcast live events over the Internet at the moment they occur. The ability to "aggregate" programs from multiple sources is a major part of the attraction of podcast-listening.

    "Streaming" files from the Internet can remove the specified-time restriction, but still offers only one source at a time, and requires the user to be connected to the Internet while playing the files. One easy way to find podcasts is to use the Podcast Directory in iTunes; these automatically-updated podcasts can then be easily synchronised to your iPod for offline listening. While podcasts are gaining ground on personal sites and blogs, they're not yet widespread. In contrast, traditional broadcasting provides only one source at a time, and the time is broadcaster-specified.

    Subscribing to podcasts allows a user to collect programs from a variety of sources for listening or viewing offline at whatever time and place is convenient. . Podcasting's essence is about creating content (audio or video) for an audience that wants to listen when they want, where they want, and how they want. Other "pod-" derived neologisms include "podcasters" for individuals or organizations offering feeds, and "podcatchers" for special RSS aggregators with the ability to transfer the files to media player software or hardware.

    Use of "podcast" to describe both audio and video feeds seemed natural to some users, while others preferred to reserve the word for audio and coin new terms for video subscriptions. In fact, any file with a URL, including still images and text, can be delivered as an enclosure. While the name was primarily associated with audio subscriptions in 2004, the RSS enclosure syndication technique had been used with video files since 2001, before portable video players were widely available. Podcasters' websites also may offer direct download of their files, but the subscription feed of automatically delivered new content is what distinguishes a podcast from a simple download or real-time streaming (see below).

    A podcast is a web feed of audio or video files placed on the Internet for anyone to subscribe to, and also the content of that feed. Podcasting is the distribution of audio or video files, such as radio programs or music videos, over the internet using RSS syndication for listening on mobile devices and personal computers. It documents community policing (CAPS) success stories. Law enforcement: The Chicago Police Department has a free video podcast of its half-hour weekly news magazine called "CrimeWatch," which airs on local TV.

    Public libraries can podcast local publications free of Copyright, offering spoken word alternatives to the visually impaired. Academic journal digests: The Society of Critical Care Medicine has a podcast used to update clinicians with summaries of important articles, as well as interviews[50]. Hong Kong's South China Morning Post was the first to use its own website and the first in Asia, having launched on April 19, 2005[49]. The San Franciso Chronicle is believed to be the first major daily newspaper to start podcasting using an external website[48], in Feb 2005.

    Newspapers use podcasts to brodcast audio content from print interviews and drive traffic to their websites. Newspapers. Podcasting has become a way for youth media organizations, such as Youth Radio (Youth Radio site), to bring youth perspectives to a wider audience. Youth media.

    The 5,500 locked out staff (editors, journalists, technicians, hosts, etc.) of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation were podcasting news and other programming during August and September of 2005. Advocacy. Podcasts can be packaged to alert attendees to agendas, hosted roundtables and daily feedback. Conference and meeting alerts.

    The Cubscast founders also formed the first city-specific sports podcast network, hosting one podcast for each major Chicago team at Chicagosportscasts.com. Pioneers include Cubscast. In 2005, unofficial podcasts for major sports teams launched, providing fans both in and outside of the teams' direct broadcast areas with on-demand commentary. Sports.

    Other television shows have since followed suit. Moore creates commentary podcasts for each new episode of Battlestar Galactica (download audio commentary). Battlestar Galactica writer and executive producer Ronald D. Television commentary.

    (transcript & audio). American astronaut Steve Robinson claimed the first podcast from space during the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-114 - although there was no subscription feed, merely an audio file that required manual downloading. On 7 August 2005. Communication from space.

    Official cultural or historic audio tours of cities ([audisseyguides]). Unofficial audio tours of museums (musecast)[47]. Porncasting and podnography are sometimes used to refer to pornography in podcasts. Pornography.

    Disciples with Microphones provides podcasts relating to the Catholic church[46]. Many churches produce podcasts of talks and sermons. Godcasting has been used by many religious groups [45]. Religion.

    In the U.S., both major political parties have various podcasts, as do numerous politicians. Politics. In the second half of 2005, a Communication Studies course at the University of Western Australia (iGeneration: Digital Communication and Participatory Culture) used student-created podcasts as the main assessment item. In 2004 Musselburgh Grammar School pioneered podcast lessons with foreign language audio revision and homework [44], other pioneers include The Room 208 Podcast, Radio WillowWeb, and Room 613 Talk.

    Education. For example, Wikinews began to podcast its News Briefs in 2005. A way for news organizations to distribute audio as an addition to their existing text (or mostly text) news products. A way for people and organizations to avoid regulatory bodies, such as the British Ofcom, that would not allow a program to be broadcast in traditional media.