Podcast Day: The Word Was Made Up to Fill a Page on Deadline
Woody Magazine We write the things that aren't news Sept. 30, 2026 (Wed.) A Word at a Time Sept. 30, 2026 It's International Podcast Day. The Word Was Made Up to Fill a Page on Deadline. Its second half comes from an 18th-century farming term for scattering seed. A podcast, meanwhile, goes only to people who ask for it. 한국어판 → In Three Lines "Podcasting" was one of three names a British reporter tossed into a story in February 2004 while racing a deadline. The "cast" comes from "broadcast," a farming term for sowing seed by hand, and the Japanese and Korean word for broadcasting also means a message sent without an addressee. This is no complaint about the name. It took hold before the medium settled into its shape, and it has outlived the iPod. Today, Sept. 30, is International Podcast Day. In January, Edison Research asked Americans 12 and older whether they had listened to or watched a podcast in the past week. Forty-five ...