How to Podcast a Church Service or Youth Ministry Online

Internet radio and podcasting are quickly becoming the rave around the world for those that have a message to communicate on a large scale. Whether you are want to broadcast mainstream music or put your youth sermons online this article will give you the basic instructions to help you join the internet radio community.

Decide on a format for your radio show or pod cast. What will you be broadcasting? Knowing this will help you determine what internet radio hosting site you need to use. There are some very good free internet radio hosting sites available to those that are producing their own original content. If you plan to use copyrighted material you will need to sign up for fee based hosting to keep your internet radio or pod cast legal.

Here are some ideas to use free hosting for:
Talk Radio (Original content)
Church Youth Messages (Original content or used with written permission)
Independent Artist music (used with permission)
Instructional radio
Again, if you plan to use any copyrighted material you will need written permission or use paid internet radio hosting for it to be legal.

Select the proper internet radio hosting serve and sign up for it. You will need to sign up even if you are using the free hosting service.

Prepare your show to go on the air. If you are doing a live show you need to have an outline of your show written down so that your show can flow smoothly. If you are using music have your files ready (some sites will have you upload your files). Be sure that all your files are in mp3 format. If you are not doing a live show you will need to upload your file and make it available as a pod cast or download to your sites visitors.

Get your internet radio station or pod cast some exposure. You may want to email its link to you friends or post links to it on facebook, myspace, twitter and other social networking sites or personal web pages.

Broadcast your first radio show to the world and enjoy the interaction with the listeners of the online radio community

	Blog talk radio offers free free tools to create a live radio show or previously recorded podcast. This site is great for talk radio call in shows. You simply use your computer and phone to produce a show.
	Live 365 is for the youth pastor that wants to use a lot of music on his show.  It offers a free service and a paid service that allows you to use copyrighted music from all major recording studios. The paid service starts with very affordable pricing and increases depending on how big you want the show to be.
	Godaddy offers podcasting starting at $4.99 a month.