BOSTON -- There's a revolution in audio technology taking place in basements and garages all over the country.

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NewsCenter 5's Anthony Everett reported Tuesday that it's called Podcasting. No, it's not some kind of sci-fi phenomenon. Call it do it yourself DJ'ing on the Internet. Thousands of Podcasts are out there, covering every niche from music to cooking to needlepoint.

Virtually anyone with a computer can do it, and somebody, somewhere might be playing it back on their iPod.

From his home laptop, C.C. Chapman is putting together his weekly Podcast showcasing unsigned musicians

Chapman plays songs you won't hear on the radio. That's the joy. The Podcaster controls the content, uploads it to a Web site and then you can listen anytime, anywhere, for free.

"I like a certain program. I subscribe to it. I drop my iPod into the cradle into my desktop and it adds all the files to it automatically," he said.

The iPod culture is in high gear. It's a downloadable world where consumers are becoming their own programmers. Podcasting offers endless audio files to download to iPods or mp3 players.

It's being called the Tivo of audio.

The man who helped create the software is now known as the PODfather. Former MTV VJ Adam Curry produces his daily source Podcast from his London home

Curry's Podcast preaching has created thousands of home grown shows, many of them pretty obscure.

Even former vice presidential candidate John Edwards Podcasts from his kitchen.

Benjamin Walker produces his quirky NPR-ish shows for radio and Podcast.

"I think we are very close to the next generation: cell phones. If you can listen to content on demand on your cell phone, that's where technology is going," Walker said.

"Radio should be scared," Chapman said.

Some are already jumping on the pod-wagon. An AM station in San Francisco is planning to go all Podcast, culling shows from all over the country.

Sirius radio just struck a deal with Curry to deliver a daily four-hour show of his favorite Podcasts. Even local radio is reacting. Mike 93.7 has thrown out their DJs and plays all music with greater variety.

"Radio won't go away, satellite will not kill radio. Podcasting won't kill either of them but it's going to take a big dent out of them," Chapman said.