History
Punkcast's founder Joly MacFie was born in England and during the punk scene in the late 70s and early 80s sold badges and pins through his company Better Badges, before in 1983 selling the business to his staff and moving to New York.
Punkcast was started in September 1997 to cover the visit to NYC of punk band One Way System, in order to demonstrate the internet's broadcast potential to the band's manager John Bentham who had run Jettisoundz, a major creator/distributor of punk video in the UK. In the early days the site covered old-school punk via several cameramen, but in 2001 MacFie started himself shooting the local indie scene. In September 2005 Punkcast launched a video podcast and later a YouTube channel.
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