Saturday, May 30, 2009

New streaming radio station, programming thoughts

My desire to create a new radio station is still looming in the front of my mind. My biggest concern is programming. Wanting to keep the station on the air 24/7 makes programming paramount. In the past we had live DJ's playing tunes during the evening hours (eastern US time zone). If the station was on at other time it was just playing a big music play list. Programming of this type just doesn't keep listeners for a number of reasons. The first being, there are thousands of stations streaming doing the same basic thing. Secondly, the web offers many options to listen to music while you are at your computer. Many of these services allow the listener to tailor music played to their specific preferences.
Thus I am looking at a number of other programming options. The world of pod-casting has possibilities. There are thousands of pod-casts out there for download on about any topic you can think of. In most cases, people interested in listening to a particular pod-cast download it and listen to it either on their computer or portable device. Quite often you can subscribe to an automatic download of a pod cast. I am considering adding a twist to this concept. With the pod-casters permission, we would stream their pod-casts. It would be a twofold concept. We would have diverse programming while giving the pod-caster exposure to more listeners. the pod-casts would cover a wide range of topics and provide entertainment for most everyone. The daily schedule would be posted on the station web page. This service would be provided free to the pod-caster in exchange for a link to the station web page on their pod-cast page.
Do you pod-cast? Would you be interested in having your pod-cast aired on a streaming station? If so, leave a comment or email me at miiikeeeworld@gmail.com.

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