Radio Show

Get ready!

I have a radio show. We're on from 11 pm to 1 am on Wednesday nights and we're called Mixtape Radio.

They have a webcast and, best yet, they archive all their shows for six weeks, so if you miss a show, or want to listen to it again, you can stream it from the website. To stream our pilot show, which we had to perform under the watchful eyes of the training head, go here and click on either hi or lo, next to the Mixtape radio show (from 11-12 on Friday the 12th).

Our first proper show is not tomorrow night, but the following Wednesday. Earlier I commented that I was really worried about the show because I hadn't been interviewed about my musical tastes. I suspected I was being hired to babysit a computer.

It turns out that's not the case - the radio station is just gloriously informal. It's in the basement of some people's house and they have a 1 watt transmitter, so must of their listenership comes from the webcast. The guy training us told us he doesn't care what we play and the 24 hour computer broadcast plays mainstream stuff like Fergalicious and Jerk it Out, so we don't even have to worry about Indie pretension if we want to slip in some mainstream stuff (finally, the opportunity to play Shakira!). We have the same restrictions on swear words as in KURE, which is that if someone complains and we get fined, the station goes bankrupt (they get even less funding than KURE!).

Equipment wise the station is both worse and better off than KURE. They've got two CD players that work fine, and a computer that lets you play bumps, beds and jingles. But there's only one record player, and it's busted. Our trainer didn't seem to know if the minidisc player or the tape decks worked, but he didn't think they did. They do have three microphones though. The strange thing is that the training head was really particular about proffesionalism on the radio. He insisted we use background music ("beds") while we chatted, that we go no more than two songs without talking, that we plan out what we were going to say, etc. He would say things like "Your sound levels were good there, but it didn't sound like you really wanted to be talking."

Anyway, like I said the show is on the web. If you want to listen live, and you live in the Central time zone, it'll be on from 5-7 pm on Wednesday afternoons. Naturally you can listen any time, since the shows are archived, but if you listen live a little webcam takes pictures of us in the studio and you can look at that. You can also send us emails with the little web player and complain about the show.

To listen live, go to cur1350's website and click on "Listen Now." To listen to an archived show, click on "Listen Again" and find our show in the schedule.