Changes to podcasts

Readers,

The following is going to be posted here as well as our network blog for transparency purposes. We appreciate your support and thanks for listening!

Listeners,

We were contacted by our friends at International Friends Radio Network, an Internet Radio channel in New Zealand.

While the JRN understands the nature of why we were contacted, we want to be transparent on what is happening and steps we are going to take with future podcasts.

First, while the JRN indicates on its pages that adult content may be possible, this may not necessarily be enough.

The Podcast directory found on this page does not explicitly mention TSB, we do not have an adult disclaimer notice on it or our blog.

However, I do remember putting up on TSB’s page on EMHS a line about adult content being possible.

I understand that this podcast and podcasts across the network must clearly be identified and our friends at IFN let us know something that we must change.

First, the laws in New Zealand are different when it comes to Internet Radio. Terestial radio, otherwise known as am/fm radio and Internet Radio follow the same guidelines in this country. This means, keeping programming as friendly as possible to all ages.

This means:

• making sure that if we have adult content such as swaring, its clearly mentioned in show notes and web sites
• abandon adult language and situations where humanly possible
• or making sure that we put a disclaimer in place when adult content is in the show itself.

This is all things we have needed to do, and as I said on the site, if something contains adult content and its not stated on its pages, please let us know. We try to keep this network as friendly as possible, and we appriciate the IFN team contacting us to notify us about this oversite.

While the podcast will not change focus, we will do our best to ensure that the programs are as friendly as possible. I mark the programs friendly on Anchor, as some adult content is not considered explicit under the options they give us when rating the podcasts. The options are friendly or explicit.

If anyone has any questions about this, please contact the network.