Or at least, their money is united in podcast-love. Calacanis is assembling not just a cute pied-à-terre for his personal podcasts, but rather a full-fledged production studio — part of a considerable venture that has billion-boy Mark Cuban involved. Calacanis's old pal CK Sample is even helping with the tech staffup. According to a tipster, the studio is

a storefront location in la with multiple video / audio podcasting booths and hd-cams. the plan is to provide best streaming web video for hosting podcasts, with higher quality bittorrent downloads and the option to subscribe netflix style to dvds of the podcasts for top tier content providers. supposedly this is all supposed to launch this summer and one of the first major clients is cbs who is planning on opening up the content from big brother. no more real player subscriptions, but streaming options provided by cuban and calacanis.

The tipster's final analysis of the operation? "Too bloated to work." Premature perhaps, as that's a lot of money and resources on the table already. Developing.

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