On the afternoon of November 7, 2014, I got an email from John Haarmann, fearless program director for GCN, "Consider this as a notice of agreeing to allow you to have both free (with ads) podcasts, and a subscription podcast section, without ads."
This means the regular version of The Paracast will still be posted online every Sunday morning, as before, on our site and iTunes. It'll also be picked up via Stitcher, TuneIn, and even for Android OS gear. But forum members who subscribe to The Paracast+ will get admission to a special area (a Paracast+ tab will appear in the forum's Nav bar below the logo at the top of the forum page):
The first exclusive content to appear there, starting with our November 9th episode, featuring author Larry Holcombe, will be ad-free versions of The Paracast. So you'll get all the content, but each segment will go right into the next one without four minutes of ad breaks. Waiting for round of applause!
Over time, we'll be adding chat rooms, special forums, exclusive interviews and other stuff. We're still working over the list.
A subscription is just $5 per month and $50 per year. I'm keeping it simple.
You can subscribe by upgrading your forum membership. Here's a direct link:
https://www.theparacast.com/forum/account/upgrades
This is very much a work in progress, and I invite advice and some web code to provide buttons and other quick links to the subscription area. Paracast+ uses XenForo's Resource Manager, and we welcome your advice on fine-tuning.
Some of you have asked if we'll always be requesting donations. If The Paracast+, and the efforts of our new salesperson, Andy Shopick, succeed, we might be phasing them out in a few months.
But not yet!
This means the regular version of The Paracast will still be posted online every Sunday morning, as before, on our site and iTunes. It'll also be picked up via Stitcher, TuneIn, and even for Android OS gear. But forum members who subscribe to The Paracast+ will get admission to a special area (a Paracast+ tab will appear in the forum's Nav bar below the logo at the top of the forum page):
The first exclusive content to appear there, starting with our November 9th episode, featuring author Larry Holcombe, will be ad-free versions of The Paracast. So you'll get all the content, but each segment will go right into the next one without four minutes of ad breaks. Waiting for round of applause!
Over time, we'll be adding chat rooms, special forums, exclusive interviews and other stuff. We're still working over the list.
A subscription is just $5 per month and $50 per year. I'm keeping it simple.
You can subscribe by upgrading your forum membership. Here's a direct link:
https://www.theparacast.com/forum/account/upgrades
This is very much a work in progress, and I invite advice and some web code to provide buttons and other quick links to the subscription area. Paracast+ uses XenForo's Resource Manager, and we welcome your advice on fine-tuning.
Some of you have asked if we'll always be requesting donations. If The Paracast+, and the efforts of our new salesperson, Andy Shopick, succeed, we might be phasing them out in a few months.
But not yet!