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The perfect person to answer that question is clearly CEO Jarl Mohn. And he was the keynote interview during the "Jacobs Media Broadcasters Meet Podcasters" opening session at Podcast Movement, Wednesday morning. Jacobs opened up with that very question, and here’s what the NPR CEO had to say…

More from the NPR CEO who’s advice to content creators is to find your own voice. Mohn told a story about how he grew up listening to the great Dan Ingram in New York City. He even imitated him when he had his own radio shift. Then he was hired by WABC to do afternoon drive and got crushed in the ratings, because the real Dan Ingram was already on the air.

The Beasley Media Group was all over Podcast Movement in Philadelphia this week. Not only did CEO Caroline Beasley introduce the keynote speaker, NPR CEO Jarl Mohn, during the "Jacobs Media Broadcasters meet Podcasters" session Wednesday morning, Beasley Media was one of the main sponsors.

Roy Brown is part of Beasley’s morning team of Manny, Roy and Lauren at KISS-FM in Charlotte. When the home office created a company-wide contest to find the best new podcast, Roy’s team went to work, and they won the contest.

According to a story on azcentral.com, Jim Paluzzi, the VP of Phoenix station KJZZ -- an NPR-member station -- is retiring after an investigation found that he had sexually harassed three male employees, and behaved offensively towards another. Paluzzi, 62, has been on paid leave since May. He is disputing some of the findings and said others were taken out of context.

With shares at their highest average closing price since November 2005, and prices of 12 cents a share seen in January 2009, Sirius XM stock has never looked better. Here is the full scoop on the company's second quarter...

Sun Broadcast Group is set to support national ad sales for Envision Networks Wolfmam Jack Radio Show beginning August 1. The show has been digitally remastered and is available now as a five-hour weekly program containing Wolfman’s comedy bits, funny phone calls, crazy characters, celebrity interviews, and great music from the 60s & 70s.

If you took as an answer to that question the number of people -- and the number of new podcasting vendors -- attending Podcast Movement in Philadelphia this week, you would say, for sure, that podcasting has come a long way from the first PM conference five years ago. Let’s look at some of the figures being thrown around at the show this week.

Aside from the obvious challenges podcasters face every day, such as getting the right equipment, consistently creating compelling content, finding listeners, and generating enough revenue to make a living, there are much bigger challenges the podcasting industry faces. Here’s what we heard on Tuesday.

As Broadcast Attorney David Oxenford writes in his latest blog, the the FCC has released a Public Notice asking a number of questions about the audio marketplace. The Commission will use that information in a report to Congress. However, Oxenford believes they may also use it as a guide to the upcoming discussion on ownerships caps.