WBKR-New York City: Internet Radio From Brooklyn, baby!
Now podcasting in our third week from our spacious studios down by the Navy Yard in Wallabout...
http://web.mac.com/sunnyreiser.....dcast.html
So far, so good...669 hits in less than three weeks with ZERO advance publicity, and a "soft opening."
To be podcasting along with our sister station WBWR-New Orleans in the first week of December, and hopefully to be streaming LIVE after the first of the year.
WBKR-NYC..."Internet Radio For The People!"
STAY WITH US!!!
http://web.mac.com/sunnyreiser.....dcast.html
So far, so good...669 hits in less than three weeks with ZERO advance publicity, and a "soft opening."
To be podcasting along with our sister station WBWR-New Orleans in the first week of December, and hopefully to be streaming LIVE after the first of the year.
WBKR-NYC..."Internet Radio For The People!"
STAY WITH US!!!
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I think the link you posted is broken. http://web.mac.com/sunnyreiser seems to work.
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I don't have a 'pod and I've never much liked QT plugins. It's not Internet Radio for Da People if there's no streaming mp3 (best) &/or realaudio or maybe wmv, because Da People have a range of devices and players.
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Fab! Love local indie radio.
Hey Al, do you know if WBKR is interesting in airing unsigned Brooklyn bands? -
doctorj wrote: It's not Internet Radio for Da People if there's no streaming mp3 (best) &/or realaudio or maybe wmv, because Da People have a range of devices and players.
We'll be streaming live after the first of the year, friend. Remember, we've been On-the-Air for less than 3 weeks, and you don't build Rome in a day. Frankly, many things are happening as I learn the technology myself. Though I'm a seasoned and well-trained journalist and writer (studied with 2005 National Book Award nominee William Heyen as an undergraduate), I learned the trade on analog equipment over 25 years ago.
And as for claiming we're not "For the People," I suggest you LISTEN to the podcasts as well as READ the Denise Levertov theories on Organic Process that I've posted on many of the pages that are linked to each podcast. WBKR-NYC and WBWR-New Orleans continues to evolve exactly BY ORGANIC PROCESS, and our devoted and loyal listenership in TWO major American cities has already shown up in very full force.
If you want to be Brooklyn snarky, save your ears for the Clear Channel foolishness you can get in any American city, and leave WBKR and WBWR for folks that actually care about their communities and want to get involved with their stations. Are you going to INVEST in the station and lay out the money to purchase a low-power 10 watt FM transmitter so that we can broadcast over the airwaves for FREE to everyone with a simple FM radio, not to mention cover the considerable expense for FCC licensure? If not, then keep your snarkisms to yourself, thank you.
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spinningpinwheel wrote: Fab! Love local indie radio.
Hey Al, do you know if WBKR is interesting in airing unsigned Brooklyn bands?
Yes, ABSOLUTELY.
We'll play any recorded music you have available to play in our musical formats (though we're not set up for vinyl just yet, but we will be), and we'll also bring in bands for interviews On-the-Air, and have the equipment and capabilities to record at remote locations when they are playing out in local clubs or festivals as well. We'll also announce any upcoming shows they have also.
As you'll hear on the podcasts from our commitment to the folks running the Bronx Underground Scene, we're wholly committed to supporting live, local music in Brooklyn and New York City.
Come find us, and help us find you, and we will come!
You may contact me at the WBKR-New York City Hotline @ 718.574.4988, and/or Email me @: [email protected].
Great post, thanks!
-al thomas -
Al Thomas wrote: [quote=doctorj]It's not Internet Radio for Da People if there's no streaming mp3 (best) &/or realaudio or maybe wmv, because Da People have a range of devices and players.
keep your snarkisms to yourself, thank you.
Do I make myself clear to you?
Hmmm, time to remind yourself again about keeping the positivity, Al.
doctorj makes a perfectly valid point for the pod-free, and I don't need to buy you a transmitter to say so.
My new favorite broadcast/podcast/MP3 download
RadioLab this week
RadioLab has been on for a couple of years, but Sunday's show was particularly fun for me
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Al Thomas wrote: [quote=doctorj]It's not Internet Radio for Da People if there's no streaming mp3 (best) &/or realaudio or maybe wmv, because Da People have a range of devices and players.
We'll be streaming live after the first of the year, friend. Remember, we've been On-the-Air for less than 3 weeks, and you don't build Rome in a day. Frankly, many things are happening as I learn the technology myself. Though I'm a seasoned and well-trained journalist and writer (studied with 2005 National Book Award nominee William Heyen as an undergraduate), I learned the trade on analog equipment over 25 years ago.
And as for claiming we're not "For the People," I suggest you LISTEN to the podcasts as well as READ the Denise Levertov theories on Organic Process that I've posted on many of the pages that are linked to each podcast. WBKR-NYC and WBWR-New Orleans continues to evolve exactly BY ORGANIC PROCESS, and our devoted and loyal listenership in TWO major American cities has already shown up in very full force.
If you want to be Brooklyn snarky, save your ears for the Clear Channel foolishness you can get in any American city, and leave WBKR and WBWR for folks that actually care about their communities and want to get involved with their stations. Are you going to INVEST in the station and lay out the money to purchase a low-power 10 watt FM transmitter so that we can broadcast over the airwaves for FREE to everyone with a simple FM radio, not to mention cover the considerable expense for FCC licensure? If not, then keep your snarkisms to yourself, thank you.
Do I make myself clear to you?
Overreact much? I think that the Doc was just pointing out that iPods are a relatively exclusive media format and not necessarily commenting on your stance on issues. -
WhyFi wrote: Overreact much? I think that the Doc was just pointing out that iPods are a relatively exclusive media format and not necessarily commenting on your stance on issues.
jinx! -
Overreact much? I think that the Doc was just pointing out that iPods are a relatively exclusive media format and not necessarily commenting on your stance on issues.
NO, not overreact much, NOT AT ALL.
The expense for putting WBKR-New York City On-the-Air has come largely out of MY pocket, and the expertise has come from myself and others involved in the station as well, and for some Brooklyn Snark to come out and criticize the station (before, I'm sure, he's even LISTENED to a single podcast) and start calling for full FM frequency broadcasts (an area and a field which I'm absolutley sure he knows NOTHING about in terms of the technical knowledge and engineering skill, not to mention broadcast-industry regulatory hurdles) is just simpleton and downright FOOLISH.
Put your money where your mouth is, Doc, and we'll be 10 watt low-power FM by the time it takes to hit the beach on Coney Island next summer, I'll guarantee you that. Otherwise, keep quiet about that of which you know little.
And listen to the station before you run your mouth, or come find me at the Alibi on DeKalb Ave. in Clinton Hill, with the balls to say what you say on here to my and my staff's face, y'heard?
Jinx, my left ear...JERK is more like it, to the both of you USELESS BROOKLYN SNARKS!!!
USELESS!!!
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Exercise your journalistic acumen realize that no one, not even Doc, called for FM broadcasts.
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Al Thomas wrote: and you don't build Rome in a day.
And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. -
You're not winning us over with your tantrum, Al. Doctorj, a frequent poster here, who I can guarantee knows more than you expect about whatever topic you'd care to name, made a simple comment about your choice of file formats. He didn't say anything about FM broadcast.
You are overreacting.
And the "Brooklyn Snark" title for anyone who calls you on it isn't winning you any fans either. -
Carnivore wrote: You're not winning us over with your tantrum, Al. Doctorj, a frequent poster here, who I can guarantee knows more than you expect about whatever topic you'd care to name, made a simple comment about your choice of file formats. He didn't say anything about FM broadcast.
You are overreacting.
And the "Brooklyn Snark" title for anyone who calls you on it isn't winning you any fans either.
I'm NOT TRYING to win you over, dear heart, and frankly, I DON'T NEED YOU among my listenership.
And frankly, that's the beauty of Internet Radio: its Content-On-Demand, micro-marketed towards a SPECIFIC TARGET AUDIENCE, and thus very easy to seperate the wheat from the chaff straight-off tizzop. Eliminates the need to dumb-down the content and the tone of the station and shoot for Least Objectionable Middle-of-the-Road or Milquetoast Republican apologist/appeaser/American Lemming-types like yourself.
I DON'T WANT YOU as my listener!!! To bastardize/semi-quote the Great American Radio Icon DON IMUS, "GET OFF MY RADIO, SNARK!"
And as for positivity, my life is very Zen: when the shoe fits, I'll put it in your a**.
Kapisch?
And JINX YER MAMA, too! -
We humored your spamming all the boards with the same message because you claimed to be offering a service for the community, but you clearly don't understand what these boards are for.
I'm locking this thread and moving it to the Brooklyn and Beyond board where it belongs and deleting the duplicate threads. -
Thanks, Carnivore. However... In the interest of keeping all the discussion on this topic in one place, I'm going to open up this thread again.
Let's be cool, though.
K? -
I'm getting the feeling that Al does not have a marketing background. Or else, I'm not familiar with the strategy of advertising on a local internet forum and then proceeding to insult and scream at the people you were advertising to. Let me know if that works out for you.
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escap wrote: I'm getting the feeling that Al does not have a marketing background. Or else, I'm not familiar with the strategy of advertising on a local internet forum and then proceeding to insult and scream at the people you were advertising to. Let me know if that works out for you.
I think the poll results will speak for themselves.
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