The official opening of the station won’t come until I’m back from my interview blitz, but people have asked what’s going on with BBR and I tell them it’s up but just in a beta form. The main things I still have to learn how to do are
operate the Centova Cast software which controls what goes up on the station. I’m putting up stuff haphazardly right now but when I get the hang of it, I’ll have precise day-and-hour programming so listeners will know what comes on when.
learn how to edit the webpage
So, everything is still in trial mode with the bear bones website and few files I’ve uploaded, but having a running 24-7 radio station feels pretty cool. I have interviews from BBR, from KLA, random from the net, plus poems and songs off of Librivox. Oh, and Sloan Younglove cut a bunch of great ‘branding’ tracks for me. These are station identification blurbs. Here’s one I put up today:
Is Sloan smooth or what?
Librivox, a fantastic source for audio books mostly, is the only place I’m getting non-copyrighted poems, songs and short stories from right now. I will find more sources for content as time goes on. Their song collection is quite sparse- only a handful of tracks, almost all either Christmas tunes or devotionals, but I did find some beautiful songs that I uploaded to BBR. Here’s one I just put up. It’s from a young woman named Ezwa, from Belgium (Wallonia presumably). I flagged her earlier for her lovely accent in a short story she read, and I’ll probably post that later (even if the story is lackluster, I can be lulled softly to sleep by her voice and accent!) This song might lull you to sleep too:
That reminds me of two things:
when tough guy Tony Soprano goes to the high school concert to hear Meadow sing in the chorus, and he can’t help but shed a tear or two, if memory serves.
when I and the twins were the guests at the Hollingsworth’s back in 2020, our first time in Montana. Candace Hollingsworth would put on sweet music for her kids at bedtime, and it hardly took any time for them to get to sleep. That scene was charming and a bit more wholesome that the Sopranos.
Anyway, the main reason I put up this unfinished, early version of the web page and the radio station is simply get some early feedback from friends. Expect a slicker webpage with graphics that indicate scheduling, program information and such. Click the BBR picture below, and then on the first page just click the ‘play’ triangle, and you’ll hear the 24-hour stream. Or you can skip the webpage and go straight to the station by clicking ‘internet radio’ below that.
proud for you Dan and happy for what our community will gain.
This is great!