Pentagon Channel Adds Podcasting to Product Line

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WASHINGTON (AFPN) --  The Pentagon Channel will add podcasting as a means of distributing the channel's military news and information targeted to servicemembers beginning Nov. 7.

"We are excited about leveraging technology that allows for more programming choices for our men and women in uniform," said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. "Harnessing this new technology enhances our goal at the Pentagon Channel to communicate relevant, timely and credible military news and information to the men and women of the military."

Podcasting is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of newly updated files -- usually an MP3 format. There is no cost to subscribe, and broadcasts will be delivered straight to the subscriber's computer desktop. 

Files can be either listened to on the computer or loaded onto an MP3 player. Though the word podcasting combines the words broadcasting and iPod, it requires neither an iPod nor a portable music player to listen. 

The Pentagon Channel broadcasts military news and information for about 2.6 million servicemembers -- active duty, National Guard and Reserve. 

Today, more than 1 million servicemembers on more than 267 U.S. military
installations can watch the Pentagon Channel. It is also available to the 700,000 servicemembers and their families serving in 177 countries overseas via the American Forces Radio and Television Service.

The Pentagon Channel can be viewed on military installations worldwide, on the Internet and through cable and satellite systems in the United States.

For more information on podcasting, as well as viewing the Pentagon Channel streamed live, visit www.pentagonchannel.mil.