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spoon_of_grimbo:
me and a friend did three two-hour punk/rock/metal shows on a local student-run radio station in boston, UK.  the station itself did really well considering it only broadcast for 20miles, and apparently we actually got quite a lot of listeners for our show, despite it being from 10 til midnite.  they did stream it online too.  might be doing a few shows again this xmas, i'll post the new website when they finish it!

i tell thee what though, it's a pain in the arse having to carefully re-listen to every playlist i put together to check for swearing (community license forbids profanity, and i found internet-lyrics to not always be too reliable...).

DanteShepherd:
We used to be part of a college radio show on WJRH called Bulgarian Hoo-hah, where there were two very different perspectives - one, a guy from Bulgaria who liked to play nothing but techno, and me, a guy from the U.S. who liked to play nothing but alternative rock.  Needless to say, we ended up yelling at each other more during the breaks about how awful we thought each other's music was, but people did enjoy listening to us if they could pick us up - considering the broadcasting power amounted to a local listener radius of about a can of soup, there really wasn't a lot we could do.

The best part of the show were the PSAs.  Now, we were required to play two full minutes of PSAs per hour.  We never did.  At most, playing two minutes per hour, usually half that.  But we never chose PSAs that were all that useful.  Instead, we found a reggae version of a song about making lemonade out of lemons that life might hand to you, and an announcement about housing discrimination against Chinese immigrants that was completely dubbed in Chinese.  These were provided in the PSA stack the station gave to us, so we were completely fulfilling our committment by playing them.  Still though . . . hilarious.

BrittanyMarie:
I had a show for like three years on KNDS, which is both a community and college radio station. We split it.

So first I had the Doug and Brittany Show then Doug studied in Africa so it was the Brittany (Not Doug) Show, then it was All Roads Lead to Awesome. Though from the playlist it was really more "all roads lead to twee pop and folk". I'm still pretty proud of that Halloween show though... all those covers are really good.

I got into a bunch of shows for free and interviewed a couple, though I totally and completely fucked up Akron/Family. It wasn't my fault really, the phone to on air was working fine but he couldn't hear us on our side. I just didn't know how to fix it.

I would HATE a job in radio though. While I loved doing my own show-- it was like creating a weekly mixtape that I shared with a couple hundred people-- in basically any job you'd get as a radio personality or dj or programmer, you wouldn't have any control over any of the music or even most of the content of what you even say. I wouldn't have been able to get away with half the shit I said on my show on a regular station even though I didn't swear.

sherrou:
i had a radio show from september of second year til october of third year when i was in college in the west of ireland, it was good craic - i liked it muchly!

my show was all about new irish music, 'next big thing' etc. found out today that the lead singer of a band that i had to interview stole somethign like €14,000 from her day job. i don't feel the least bit sorry for her, she was so awful any time i ever dealt with that band. She didn't bother doing the interview, seemed to think she was above interviews for college radio stations. pfft.

tania:

--- Quote from: KvP on 11 Oct 2008, 12:39 ---Ephemere had (has?) a radio show up in ol' Canada.
--- End quote ---

still do! it is from 6-8pm on sunday nights at my university's community radio station. tommy only links it when he cohosts it but i have been doing it every week for almost 2 years now.
it is a lousy time slot and all i really do is play punk and talk about it. a couple of days ago though, someone emailed me saying they loved my show and it was their favourite one at the station so it's good to know someone's still listening.

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