Picture Credit score: The Glenn Beck Program
Over 3,000 episodes of “The Glenn Beck Program” have been faraway from Apple’s distribution community, probably due to a too-large knowledge feed pointing the service to the podcast.
On Wednesday, Beck took to X to ask Apple why his present had been faraway from Apple Podcasts. He offered a screenshot that confirmed an e mail that learn, “We discovered a problem together with your present, The Glenn Beck Program, which should be resolved earlier than it is obtainable on Apple Podcasts.”
Apple hasn’t given a precise motive as to why Beck’s podcast was eliminated. Nonetheless, it is possible given the textual content of the removing e mail that it is a technical subject, and never a political one.
Whereas Apple did not explicitly say this, and will have, the problem seems to spawn from the podcast’s considerably outsized RSS feed.
One Twitter consumer, Daniel J. Lewis, famous that the RSS feed for “The Glenn Beck Program” is greater than 11 megabytes. Traditionally, Apple routinely flags RSS recordsdata that exceed 5MB. That 5MB warning was in all probability exceeded six years in the past given the publication fee of this system.
In all chance, latest applications added to the RSS feed exceeded an auto-cutoff measurement, inducing the removing.
Beck additionally famous that Apple did not warn him that this system violated any of its content material insurance policies, and that his present did not have any strikes in opposition to it. Different related applications like Invoice O’Reilly’s present, and Charlie Kirk aren’t impacted — and each have notably smaller RSS feeds.
