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lizwilliams) wrote2006-10-11 09:30 am
lizwilliams) wrote2006-10-11 09:30 am
Talking talk radio
In the context of 'stuff like this just happens to me', we've been offered our own radio show. It's on a net-based radio station, 'broadcasting' in the UK and the US (and anywhere else, for that matter - their webmaster is based in Chile).
It's being set up by a guy who wants to establish Glastonbury Radio - he already runs a stream of other radio stations and this show will be specifically esoteric. The first programme will probably go out around midnight in early December and run once a week. Working title is the Witching Hour, which is highly unoriginal but, OTOH, does what it says on the tin.
I'll probably be doing the brunt of the first show because one half of us can't talk very well at the moment, but more as and when - they still need funding, so we may find that the project gets abruptly curtailed.
It's an odd thing to happen - I am a radio listener (I listen to far more radio than I watch TV) and have done a reasonable amount of it over the years, for both local and national radio, but I've never considered having my own show. (For someone with a degree in AI, I am such a non-tech head that I still call it the 'wireless.') The people involved have been chasing us, however. So why not?
It'll probably be like a broadcast version of this LJ, but without added Dog.
It's being set up by a guy who wants to establish Glastonbury Radio - he already runs a stream of other radio stations and this show will be specifically esoteric. The first programme will probably go out around midnight in early December and run once a week. Working title is the Witching Hour, which is highly unoriginal but, OTOH, does what it says on the tin.
I'll probably be doing the brunt of the first show because one half of us can't talk very well at the moment, but more as and when - they still need funding, so we may find that the project gets abruptly curtailed.
It's an odd thing to happen - I am a radio listener (I listen to far more radio than I watch TV) and have done a reasonable amount of it over the years, for both local and national radio, but I've never considered having my own show. (For someone with a degree in AI, I am such a non-tech head that I still call it the 'wireless.') The people involved have been chasing us, however. So why not?
It'll probably be like a broadcast version of this LJ, but without added Dog.
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And how is T? Give us an update sometime...
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Okay, it was only a looped student station, and probably none of my friends actually listened, but I remember it was great fun!
I still have a tape of me reviewing The Shawshank Redemption somewhere...
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It's only net based so you will be able to listen online if you want. Thr bloke who runs it has already had one conversation along these lines:
'I can't find your station.'
'Do you have the right URL?'
'The what? I can't find it on the dial.'
'OK. I need to ask you if your computer is actually switched on.'
'What computer?'
I don't think any of us are quite as technically illiterate as this...
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Radio is good for the soul. And better for blackmail sometimes.
:P
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Let us know when/where/how. Sounds like fun.
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Some friends of mine had a local cable-access TV show in Boston years ago called "Real Witches." I can only imagine what we could've done if the technology for webcasting had been around in those days!
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Glad to hear T is holding his own. Keep up the good work.
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Just in case you haven't thought of this already: Tell Ansible and Locus.
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BRILLIANT! No, I hadn't thought of it. Thank you.
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(Anonymous) 2006-10-12 08:03 am (UTC)(link)- Ben J