You may have noticed…

Friday, January 29th, 2010 | news | 1 Comment

If you look to the right, you will find the test stream of REMIX online. Hooray! It doesn’t yet have the full number of pieces that are playing on the XM 136 channel, but it’s here and it’s glorious. This is a big week/month/year for REMIX, so keep it tuned here. This alpha phase is only prelude.

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Radio Diaries: 15 Years of Stories

Monday, January 11th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Radio Diaries is launching a new series for NPR called The Human News Desk (I seriously cannot wait for this!), and they need your help to get it going. Donate now and know that you are supporting radio at its absolute best.

A StoryCorps Blitz

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Hey gang. Is it possible you don’t know about StoryCorps? If you haven’t heard, it’s so simple and marvelous that it’s hard to believe that it didn’t always exist. Here’s how they describe themselves:

The heart of StoryCorps is the conversation between two people who are important to each other: a son asking his mother about her childhood, an immigrant telling his friend about coming to America, or a couple reminiscing on their 50th wedding anniversary. By helping people to connect, and to talk about the questions that matter, the StoryCorps experience is powerful and sometimes even life-changing.

Our goal is to make that experience accessible to all, and find new ways to inspire people to record and preserve the stories of someone important to them. Everybody’s story matters and every life counts.

Just as powerful is the experience of listening. Whenever people listen to these stories, they hear the courage, the humor, the trials and triumphs of an incredible range of voices.

And I have to say, dear listener, that I have become pretty jaded when it comes to some first-person, confessional storytelling on the radio. I can admit it. It’s true.  But, some of the these StoryCorps vignettes can gut a man. I just uploaded the best of the best of them on the XM 136 stream, so stay tuned….but if you can’t possibly wait, look (and listen) here.

A Shortcut Through The 21st Century-The First Decade

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Peter Bochan is the mix master. Right now in heavy rotation on XM 136, we’re offering a new year treat: A Shortcut Through The 21st Century-The First Decade. A three hour-long retrospective of the entire decade (broken up into three individual, one-hour parts), beginning with the 2000 election and recounts, featuring Al Gore, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and other candidates, through 911, Homeland Security, into the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, right through the arrival of Barack Obama, the death of Michael Jackson and the Miracle on the Hudson. This Shortcut through the first decade of the 21st century mixes up the emotional highs and lows; the elections and the resulting political turmoil, the ongoing war and the struggles for peace, the growing concern over global warming and the environment, the changes in science & technology, the perfume & the poison, the shocking scandals and bad behavior, Britney, Brad & Angelina, Miss USA, You Tube, and the continuing decline of western civilization—its all here!

Be sure to check out Bochan’s other Shortcuts on PRX.