No more program directors stifling your creative urges and broadcasting ambitions.
No more years of diddling the potentiometers and fetching coffee for egotistical, assholian blabbermeisters before getting a chance behind the mic.
Launched last year, BlogTalkRadio is a social radio network which combines online audio broadcasting on a free, streaming, user-friendly, citizen broadcasting platform.
Newly upgraded, the site has been getting a lot of buzz. It's gotten harder and harder to develop broadcasting skills on radio, Heres an answer to that problem.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
The free service lets users with a telephone and Internet-connected PC host live radio shows. Hosts call into via phone but manage guests through a Web-based interface. Shows stream live through the host's BlogTalkRadio Web page.
The new Web site has live text-chat, social networking features, video uploading and enhanced search to help visitors find content in the programming guide, as well as in the archive of some 23,000 shows. Listeners can also now create their own profiles, which they can use to rate their favorite programs.
More than 8,000 people have broadcast through BlogTalkRadio since it launched in Aug. 2006, the company says.
Now that sounds like fun! I wonder how easy it is to really do . . . you could try out anonymously and see what people think. Kinda cool.
Posted by: joanie | September 21, 2007 at 01:03 AM
It doesn't solve the dearth-of-talent issue. If KIRO can't come up with a 3rd reasonably good host to go with Ross & Dori, how's blog spot going to come up with good hosts?
Posted by: wutitiz | September 21, 2007 at 08:23 AM
Nail in the coffin of legacy talk radio? I don't think so. Who wants to be tied to the computer to listen to live chat? No thanks.
Posted by: Tacoma | September 21, 2007 at 09:05 AM
Tacoma: With the growth of broadband Internet and the coming of the WiFi "cloud," Internet-based everything is in our future.
Posted by: sarge | September 21, 2007 at 09:24 AM
If anybody here ever decided to get a blogtalkradio show, or let's say a local station hired you as a talk radio host, what would be your first three topics?
Posted by: Sam | September 21, 2007 at 10:18 AM
The headline should hve come from the third graf: "It's gotten harder and harder to develop broadcasting skills on radio, Heres an answer to that problem."
BlogTalk is not a nail in the coffin of talk radio, it's a place for would-be talk hosts to develop their chops and make mistakes without a program director leaning over their shoulders and pushing them to sound just like every other host on the local dial.
Sure, most of the wannabes will never get to move to a live radio transmitter rather than an online audience in the mid-two figures, but maybe a few new voices with their own unique sounds will emerge. And there will be a few savvy PDs who skim BlogTalk for interesting new talent.
Posted by: rev | September 21, 2007 at 10:43 AM
I will be thrilled when BlogTakkRadio is NOT "currently undergoing maintenance", and I will be able to access its multitudinous services.
Posted by: Fremont | September 21, 2007 at 05:32 PM
You have quite an interesting conversation going on here. Many of your points are straight on.
We launched the revamped site on Monday and its my guess we will need another week to level the ship.
Alan Levy
Founder Blogtalkradio
Posted by: alan levy | September 22, 2007 at 06:02 AM