To me it's all the same. I'll usually go and stream something like Dateline from the NBC site. Although I do subscribe to a lot of podcasts, but I also subscribe to a whole bunch of Youtube channels.

Absolutely. It's comparable to classic tv for me, where tv was using radio as inspiration so shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents are very descriptive. But I do also listen to podcast versions of tv shows like Dateline, where nothing has changed and it's just the audio of the tv show, but either one is the same to me. I've always tended to watch more descriptive media like documentaries because you don't have to be able to see what's going on to fully enjoy the show.

Short answer, yes. I love fiction podcasts, especially.