diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/modules/rest/controllers/PodcastController.php b/airtime_mvc/application/modules/rest/controllers/PodcastController.php
index fd5f9a260..96b362c48 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/modules/rest/controllers/PodcastController.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/modules/rest/controllers/PodcastController.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ class Rest_PodcastController extends Zend_Rest_Controller
 {
 
     /**
-     * @var Application_Service_PodcastService
+     * @var Application_Service_PodcastEpisodeService
      */
     protected $_service;
 
diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/services/PodcastService.php b/airtime_mvc/application/services/PodcastService.php
index dc6a0ce03..5c1322768 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/services/PodcastService.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/services/PodcastService.php
@@ -194,15 +194,24 @@ class Application_Service_PodcastService
      * @return array
      */
     private static function _generatePodcastArray($podcast, $rss) {
-        $podcastArray = $podcast->toArray(BasePeer::TYPE_FIELDNAME);
+        $ingestedEpisodes = PodcastEpisodesQuery::create()
+            ->findByDbPodcastId($podcast->getDbId());
+        $episodeIds = array();
+        foreach ($ingestedEpisodes as $e) {
+            array_push($episodeIds, $e->getDbEpisodeGuid());
+        }
 
+        $podcastArray = $podcast->toArray(BasePeer::TYPE_FIELDNAME);
         $podcastArray["episodes"] = array();
         foreach ($rss->get_items() as $item) {
             /** @var SimplePie_Item $item */
             array_push($podcastArray["episodes"], array(
                 "guid" => $item->get_id(),
+                "ingested" => in_array($item->get_id(), $episodeIds),
                 "title" => $item->get_title(),
-                "author" => $item->get_author()->get_name(),
+                // From the RSS spec best practices:
+                // 'An item's author element provides the e-mail address of the person who wrote the item'
+                "author" => $item->get_author()->get_email(),
                 "description" => $item->get_description(),
                 "pub_date" => $item->get_date("Y-m-d H:i:s"),
                 "link" => $item->get_link(),