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Adam Carolla Sued for the Second Time in One Week

by | January 18th, 2013

On Tuesday, we reported that wildly-popular podcaster Adam Carolla's company had been sued over a podcast patent dispute, and now, news come in that "The Ace-Man," as he prefers to be called, is adding another lawsuit to his plate. Carolla is being sued by former business partners Donny Misraje, Kathee Schneider-Misraje, and Sandy Ganz, who are claiming that Carolla broke their partnership agreement and failed to pay them for the work they invested in the business and rewards they deserved once said business became profitable. Donny Misraje is Carolla's ex-producer who convinced him to move to podcasting after his radio show was canceled in 2009. Misraje and [...]

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Adam Carolla Breaks Guinness World Record For Podcast Downloads

by | May 20th, 2011

As announced on Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday night, Adam Carolla won the Guinness World Record for most downloaded podcast of all eternity, stretching back to the Big Bang. The award was formerly held by The Ricky Gervais Show, written by Gervais, Steven Merchant and Karl Pilkington, suggesting that all of Carolla's achievements going forward are going to be hyper-focused on getting more use out of that Uncle Sam costume.

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Adam Carolla's Company Sued Over Podcast Patent Dispute

by | January 15th, 2013

A patent licensing company called Personal Audio LLC has issued lawsuits to Adam Carolla's ACE Broadcasting and HowStuffWorks.com, two of the biggest podcasting entities in the game, in a patent infringement case, 9to5Mac reports. The patent in question, which was issued last year, is for a "system for disseminating media content representing episodes in a serialized sequence," and the result of the lawsuit will certainly have a big impact on the booming podcast industry. Personal Audio has had success with these tech patent lawsuits in the past, winning $8 million from Apple in a 2011 case and entering licensing agreements with Sirius, Motorola, Samsung, Archos, Coby, RIM, and Amazon  after [...]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts

by | March 1st, 2012

In response to a couple comments we got last week, we scoured the nation to find contributors to make our podcast crew more motley. And you know what, we nailed it. The hope is this column will grow to reflect the entire wacky wide world that is the American comedy podcast landscape. If you feel like we missed something, let us hear it — nearly as many people will read the comments as will the text. Was Bobbing for Johns with Jonathan Roberts your absolute fave this week? Let us/the world know. (Please don’t mention Bobbing for Johns this week, we feature it too often, also I made it [...]

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