Our new Internet radio show, New Albany Now, is on a brief hiatus. As was intended, the city council managed to divert everyone's attention toward the vicious fight over a workplace smoking ban, and frankly, I was just too tired of the quality of the debate, not to mention the volume (loudness) to fight the trend.
The show will be back, probably in mid-September or as the need arises. We just haven't settled on a time, day, and frequency. In addition, we hope to have three shows: a local issues show (New Albany Now), another that discusses books and publishing with author interviews, and a third that will consist of open-mic poetry. If all goes as planned, between the three shows, we'll be broadcasting the local issues show three times a week. Add to that the taped coverage of city council meetings and post-council reports, and it could get pretty busy.
We are still adding sponsors for the local show. If you want a targeted, measured market penetration and don't want to pay for phantom listeners, the cost is hard to beat. For 2.5 cents per ear, you can deliver your message to a motivated listenership that consists mainly of local people. It's manageable for local businesses who don't traditionally advertise, and affordable for community groups seeking to promote a specific event.
Call me at the store (944-5116) if you'd like to be a sponsor.
Showing posts with label blogtalkradio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogtalkradio. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
New Albany Now features...
...well, New Albany. Now.
Tonight's show (Aug. 14, 2008) is a review of recent news, blog-like commentary on same, plus a special taped segment with author Keven McQueen, featuring his new book, The Kentucky Book of the Dead.
We will be taking calls and the chat room will be open.
Tonight's show (Aug. 14, 2008) is a review of recent news, blog-like commentary on same, plus a special taped segment with author Keven McQueen, featuring his new book, The Kentucky Book of the Dead.
We will be taking calls and the chat room will be open.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Help Make the Show Go
You can check out our schedule any time at New Albany Now.
Two shows are already scheduled early in the next week. First up is our recap (post-game?) coverage of the New Albany City Council actions on Monday night, July 7. We go live at 9 p.m in our first remote broadcast. Ron Campbell will be serving as your host-engineer, handling the switchboard, while I'll be broadcasting live from Studio's Restaurant and Pub, the new gathering place in the Bader building, 207 E. Main St. That's the former site of Connor's Place. There's a lot to discuss. The council will hold a hearing earlier in the evening to solicit public comment on the idea of banning smoking in New Albany workplaces. I'd expect a few callers on that topic. And the official action of the city's legislative body is always fuel for lively discussions.
The next evening, July 8, at 6 p.m., we'll have the Hon. Douglas B. England on for the scheduled hour. The mayor has been in office for six months now, and I know you have lots of questions for him. We'll take callers for as long as the mayor can stay with us and continue the discussion until you're all talked out.
Welcome to New Albany Now. Where else are you going to find a broadcast whose reason for being is to give New Albanians a way to communicate their views?
You know, this country has suffered over the past 25 years from unfettered media consolidation. Within our lifetimes you could find at least one local radio station focused on your city. But no more. Well, New Albany Now is here to tell you, local radio is back - oriented to local needs, local issues, and local interests.
We’ll also be talking about books on occasion, with local, national, and international figures from the publishing world – authors, editors, publishers, and publicists. We’ll be talking about the media, local, regional, and national. And we’ll be talking politics, too, especially in this pivotal election year.
Here’s how its going to work, though. We’ll do shows that you want to hear, that you want to contribute to with your calls and letters.
We created New Albany Now on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ because we believe New Albany needs it.
Listen to us live, or listen any time from our archives. From your computer, just click to talk; the call is free via our VoIP phone lines. And when you can’t be at your computer, call us live at (347) 539-5928.
We’ll take your calls in sequence, so go ahead and call in and we’ll bring you on when we can.
When you’re at your computer listening to the live broadcast, we invite you to take advantage of our live chat tools. That’s just one more way you can contribute to New Albany Now AND it lets you continue the conversation with other listeners off the air.
Also, we invite you to e-mail us at newalbanynow@gmail.com, either during the show or at any time afterward. If you hear something on the show that you’d like to respond to, go ahead. We might just supplement the show archive by using your comment on the show blog at http://newalbanynow.blogspot.com/. Please understand that unless you specifically ask us to keep your comments anonymous, we’ll attribute it to you.
Finally, we're pouring a lot of resources into this venture, so when you hear our sponsors mentioned on the air, please consider giving them your patronage. And please tell them you heard their spot on New Albany Now.
Two shows are already scheduled early in the next week. First up is our recap (post-game?) coverage of the New Albany City Council actions on Monday night, July 7. We go live at 9 p.m in our first remote broadcast. Ron Campbell will be serving as your host-engineer, handling the switchboard, while I'll be broadcasting live from Studio's Restaurant and Pub, the new gathering place in the Bader building, 207 E. Main St. That's the former site of Connor's Place. There's a lot to discuss. The council will hold a hearing earlier in the evening to solicit public comment on the idea of banning smoking in New Albany workplaces. I'd expect a few callers on that topic. And the official action of the city's legislative body is always fuel for lively discussions.
The next evening, July 8, at 6 p.m., we'll have the Hon. Douglas B. England on for the scheduled hour. The mayor has been in office for six months now, and I know you have lots of questions for him. We'll take callers for as long as the mayor can stay with us and continue the discussion until you're all talked out.
Welcome to New Albany Now. Where else are you going to find a broadcast whose reason for being is to give New Albanians a way to communicate their views?
You know, this country has suffered over the past 25 years from unfettered media consolidation. Within our lifetimes you could find at least one local radio station focused on your city. But no more. Well, New Albany Now is here to tell you, local radio is back - oriented to local needs, local issues, and local interests.
We’ll also be talking about books on occasion, with local, national, and international figures from the publishing world – authors, editors, publishers, and publicists. We’ll be talking about the media, local, regional, and national. And we’ll be talking politics, too, especially in this pivotal election year.
Here’s how its going to work, though. We’ll do shows that you want to hear, that you want to contribute to with your calls and letters.
We created New Albany Now on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ because we believe New Albany needs it.
Listen to us live, or listen any time from our archives. From your computer, just click to talk; the call is free via our VoIP phone lines. And when you can’t be at your computer, call us live at (347) 539-5928.
We’ll take your calls in sequence, so go ahead and call in and we’ll bring you on when we can.
When you’re at your computer listening to the live broadcast, we invite you to take advantage of our live chat tools. That’s just one more way you can contribute to New Albany Now AND it lets you continue the conversation with other listeners off the air.
Also, we invite you to e-mail us at newalbanynow@gmail.com, either during the show or at any time afterward. If you hear something on the show that you’d like to respond to, go ahead. We might just supplement the show archive by using your comment on the show blog at http://newalbanynow.blogspot.com/. Please understand that unless you specifically ask us to keep your comments anonymous, we’ll attribute it to you.
Finally, we're pouring a lot of resources into this venture, so when you hear our sponsors mentioned on the air, please consider giving them your patronage. And please tell them you heard their spot on New Albany Now.
Randy Smith, Show Host
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Re: The Importance of Neighborhood Schools
The first show for New Albany Now is in the archives now, and we'll use this blog to clarify and comment on the show. The blog will be show related and we'll try to separate it from our other Web logs as much as we can.
Thank you to the members of F.O.S.S.E., the Friends of Silver Street Elementary, who so warmly embraced the opportunity to talk on our first show. Our guests included Jeremy Finn of Beeler Street and the Silver Grove Neighborhood Association. My apologies to Jeremy if I cut you off prematurely. I recall that your wife had an outstanding suggestion for the school board and I probably dumped on your opportunity to share that with a wider public.
Kathy Ayres, chairman of F.O.S.S.E. and a resident member of the new Glenwood Place Neighborhood Association joined us for the entire show. Norma Condra, the incoming co-president of the Silver Street Elementary School PTO and a resident member of the Depauw Avenue Neighborhood Association joined us later.
As we write this, our statistics indicate that almost 100 Netizen locations have listened to the show in archive format, joining 15 live listeners and 5 call-in listeners or callers. I'm content with that for a first show.
During the show, a chat line was available to listeners. Unfortunately, I assumed that no one would be using it, so I minimized my screen. Perhaps I should have kept it on the desktop, because a number of listeners were able to amplify, clarify, and correct some of the things we discussed or said on the Webcast.
By e-mail at newalbanynow@gmail.com, B corrected a slip. Depauw Avenue has not been designated as a "historic district," which triggers certain covenants and protections for historic properties. Instead, with the assistance of the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of New Albany, the Depauw Avenue area was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is a difference, just to be accurate.
On in-show chat (and you can chat after the show, too), we received these corrections:
Silver Street Elementary School was named an "Exemplary" school in 2006 and 2008, not, as a caller asserted, for the second year in a row.
BG reminded us that FOSSE has a blog of their own, http://savesilverstreet.blogspot.com/, where you can keep up-to-date with the effort to persuade the powers that be that SSE is too valuable to shut down.
Kathy Ayres, our on-air guest, wanted to make sure to invite the parents and stakeholders from the Pine View Elementary are to attend the FOSSE meetings. I think we all agree that the current process isn't served by "taking sides" and letting the decision come down to "which" school to close instead of whether any school should be sacrificed in the name of efficiency.
And Kathy also tells us that SSE has had full-day kindergarten for at least five years, not the one year that Jeremy and I agreed sounded right. I did not know that. I thought the only full-day kindergarten program was at Mt. Tabor Elementary before the 2007-2008 school year.
Disappointing, to a certain degree, was the lack of participation from the folks from the Pine View district. I had expected calls. Wonder what happened there?
Thank you to the members of F.O.S.S.E., the Friends of Silver Street Elementary, who so warmly embraced the opportunity to talk on our first show. Our guests included Jeremy Finn of Beeler Street and the Silver Grove Neighborhood Association. My apologies to Jeremy if I cut you off prematurely. I recall that your wife had an outstanding suggestion for the school board and I probably dumped on your opportunity to share that with a wider public.
Kathy Ayres, chairman of F.O.S.S.E. and a resident member of the new Glenwood Place Neighborhood Association joined us for the entire show. Norma Condra, the incoming co-president of the Silver Street Elementary School PTO and a resident member of the Depauw Avenue Neighborhood Association joined us later.
As we write this, our statistics indicate that almost 100 Netizen locations have listened to the show in archive format, joining 15 live listeners and 5 call-in listeners or callers. I'm content with that for a first show.
During the show, a chat line was available to listeners. Unfortunately, I assumed that no one would be using it, so I minimized my screen. Perhaps I should have kept it on the desktop, because a number of listeners were able to amplify, clarify, and correct some of the things we discussed or said on the Webcast.
By e-mail at newalbanynow@gmail.com, B corrected a slip. Depauw Avenue has not been designated as a "historic district," which triggers certain covenants and protections for historic properties. Instead, with the assistance of the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of New Albany, the Depauw Avenue area was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is a difference, just to be accurate.
On in-show chat (and you can chat after the show, too), we received these corrections:
Silver Street Elementary School was named an "Exemplary" school in 2006 and 2008, not, as a caller asserted, for the second year in a row.
BG reminded us that FOSSE has a blog of their own, http://savesilverstreet.blogspot.com/, where you can keep up-to-date with the effort to persuade the powers that be that SSE is too valuable to shut down.
Kathy Ayres, our on-air guest, wanted to make sure to invite the parents and stakeholders from the Pine View Elementary are to attend the FOSSE meetings. I think we all agree that the current process isn't served by "taking sides" and letting the decision come down to "which" school to close instead of whether any school should be sacrificed in the name of efficiency.
And Kathy also tells us that SSE has had full-day kindergarten for at least five years, not the one year that Jeremy and I agreed sounded right. I did not know that. I thought the only full-day kindergarten program was at Mt. Tabor Elementary before the 2007-2008 school year.
Disappointing, to a certain degree, was the lack of participation from the folks from the Pine View district. I had expected calls. Wonder what happened there?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
