Storage space podcasts and tv shows downloaded taking up

I am new to itunes, and have been downloading podcasts daily and several tv shows. I am concerned that they might be taking up a lot of my hard drive. Can you advise? If so can I move the the downloads to a cd rw?
Thanks for you advise (if you give it"-)
Ron

You can move the data to an external hard drive or removable media such as CD-RW's. However, once you delete the podcast/tv show off of your computer, iTunes will then put a little exclamation point next to that file within iTunes. This basically means that iTunes can't find the place the file was before.
But as I said, you can burn the media to CD-RW's and then pop them in the CD drive when you want to watch or listen to the media. Additionally, if you're not going to listen to the podcasts again, you can delete them and then redownload them later since they are free. Deleting purchased files, however, is more permanent in that once they are deleted, you won't be getting a refund from iTunes.
Hope this helps!
-Ryan

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