[WXBH-Discuss] brickhouse show problem

[loyd coy]

noone is there. the show thats been booked for months
is suppoed to start in 12 minutes. please someone call
madison at 270 300 7028





--- Aron Conaway <aronconaway at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Okay, i was gonna send this yesterday, but after
> reading it a coupla times I 
> began to hate it and decided to not share my
> thoughts. But I think my 
> comments are legit despite what I found yesterday to
> be a little bit of a 
> preachy tone. I think Brian and i are coming from
> the same place on all 
> this, so I was inspired to share....
> 
> The FCC kinda has us by the throat at this point. A
> lot of music that we 
> want to play has some cussing sprinkled throughout.
> We need radio-friendly, 
> edited versions of these songs. If we could find
> time to edit songs that we 
> like and teach our programmers to do the same, then
> we can have a catalog of 
> songs for them all to drag and drop onto playlists
> to play live on the 
> studio computer or put into audacity to play later.
> 
> The air-versus-stream thing... The fact is: A lot of
> potential participants 
> are disappointed to hear that we are only
> broadcasting in the Southeast end 
> of town. They simply won't spend their time doing a
> show that their friends 
> can't and won't hear. And so we are limited to one
> small portion of the city 
> rather than the entire Louisville Community. Many of
> us are not in that area 
> all that often and can't get a fe> of the station
there. 
> Our energy to promote the station in that specific
> area is limited as well.
> 
> This is where the stream is important. We know that
> any jackass can have a 
> stream and they are a dime a dozen, but a quality,
> organized local station 
> (that relies heavily on its stream) that stands out
> and represents 
> "Louisville" would be priceless. It is an invaluable
> resource to have a web 
> stream that is accessible across the Metro Area and
> also all over the world. 
> We need to push our stream and do it passionately.
> DJs will no doubt 
> advertise their time slot to their friends and their
> friends will 
> potentially want to do a show as well. We will be
> able to fill up the air in 
> Fern Creek with improved programming
> quality/quantity. Having a license for 
> the air shouldn't limit our drive in creating a
> strong webstream presence.
> 
> 
> We should be thinking;  What would likely make folks
> want to jump aboard?
> Louisville is an amazingly creative place, but our
> fellow citizens 
> unfortunately do need to be babied a little. We need
> to approach the 
> lack-of-interest problem by making WXBH seem 1.
> attractive  2. accessible 
> and 3. impacting.
> 
> People want to be involved with that which is easy,
> fun and worth talking 
> about and supporting. To become popular, the whole
> city needs to be aware 
> that they can hear WXBH. Without focusing on
> creating this atmosphere, a 
> roomful of individuals are going to continue to
> scratch their heads and 
> stare at each other week after week, wondering, "Why
> is this not taking 
> off?"
> 
> The whole thing needs to be a whole lot sexier than
> it is. All in all, this 
> boils down to the PR and marketing of the station.
> 
> -Aron
> 
> 
> 
> From: "brian manley" <bmanley at gmail.com>
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> To: "WXBH General Discussion List (Open to all to
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> Subject: Re: [WXBH-Discuss] Our Audio Quality
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:21:29 -0400
> 
> Like I'd mentioned Sunday at the meeting: I've got a
> growing collection of
> Louisville bands, as well as regional bands, and
> attend or participate in
> local music shows pretty regularly (although haven't
> in the last 2 months
> due to saving for a laptop (grrrr!)), so securing
> local music is easy (I
> think alot of bands will be happy to just donate it
> if we promise airplay).
> 
> one concern--obscenity. both in the music, and from
> the djs.
> 
> people not having the equipment is one thing. aaron
> makes a good point about
> not having the facilities to traiand believe it or
not not everyone has a laptop or
> the internet at home.
> 
> 
> however, i feel like we're on the brink of things,
> so maybe some promotion
> (like the promos aaron & jennifer are doing, or even
> fliers like i think
> aaron suggested) would be a good thing. Maybe when
> we get something ready
> studio-wise, a posting in LEO would be good. There
> are plenty of ways to get
> the word out that are cheap. But, at this point,
> when I tell someone about
> it, and then explain the process of producing a
> show, their eyes kinda glaze
> and they say they dont have time to do it that way,
> or the equipment.
> 
> 
> a studio would help in this regard.
> 
> one thing, looking ahead, that concerns me is a
> point Paul brought up--when
> working at a station run by volunteers who have not
> been trained
> professionally, obscenity is an issue. The "ummmms"
> and broken sentences
> filled with pockets of dead air is something, too,
> but that can be addressed
> and eventually worked with and on. However, their
> HAS to be a stress on what
> a DJ can and can't say, and what kind of material
> he/she can or can't play.
> Otherwise this whole thing can just get wiped out.
> 
> And this even goes towards giving a bunch of local
> music CDs to JOhn or Mark
> to fill in dead air times. Some songs are not
> playable on the air, and we
> need to know which ones (meaning the CDs need to be
> previewed).
> 
> Another point though--criticisms toward the station
> about the lack of local
> programming--yeah, its been on a month. To me thats
> amazing--all we have to
> do is find our base of local djs who are dependable.
> This will be a slow
> filling out of the schedule, but I'm impressed with
> the station playing
> programming never accessible here before already. We
> can't come down
> hard--with no equipment and no facilities, how can
> we expect the "voiceless"
> in the community to suddenly become DJs and show
> producers overnight. Many
> times the "voiceless" are "computerless" as well,
> and like Mark said, lack
> the time to commit right now. You might ask, "Well
> why weren't we prepared
> for this--what've been doing while this whole time?"
> With a fluctuating
> staff of volunteers who are all strssed to the gills
> with their own
> commitments outside of this, and no training
> facilities, its a little
> difficult to criticize the station and ask why it
> isnt perfect. Its been on
> a month!!! That's good in and of itself; now is the
> time to grow, add
> members, and move forward. Its been tough training
> people on a non-existent
> station and studio.
> 
> 
> On 7/8/07, Mark McKinley <markmck48 at hotmail.com >
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Paul - a couple notes
> >
> >In January Mia Frederick with Appalshop/WMMT's
> Community 
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