Lexicon Valley podcast notched up 650,000 downloads

[Neal Whitman]

LV is a great podcast, except for Bob Garfield's regular sign-off to cohost Mike Vuolo: "Later, gator."

Neal

On Feb 9, 2013, at 3:11 PM, "ADSGarson O'Toole" <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> List members might be interested to know that according to an article
> at the website paidContent the podcast Lexicon Valley at the Slate
> website is quite popular.
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> Slate is now producing nine separate podcasts, some of which rate
> highly on iTunes; one episode of the show Lexicon Valley recently
> notched up 650,000 downloads. Slate would not disclose how much ads,
> which are read by show hosts, bring in but said �advertisers pay some
> of the highest rates in the industry� for the podcasts.
> [End excerpt]
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> The above excerpt is from the following article. Note: The web page
> includes a picture that might be considered NSFW. Its illustrative
> value to the article is unclear.
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> Title: The brain of the New York Times, the body of BuzzFeed" -
> Slate�s third act
> By Jeff John Roberts  Feb. 5, 2013
>
> http://paidcontent.org/2013/02/05/the-brain-of-the-new-york-times-the-body-of-buzzfeed-slates-third-act/
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