First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren

Long ago, broadcast radio gave up with introducing their audience to new music. I first became aware of it sometime during the summer of 1996 [1] , I’m sure the tipping point occured long before then.

Between Cumulus Media president/CEO Lew Dickey, Jr. promoting the talk radio proliferation on the FM dial, my conversation about Broadcast Radio and Podcasting with Noah Lamson, and the frequency of MTV actually showing a music videos, musicians are in a pickle.

Their traditional distributors aren’t interested in distributing music anymore - let alone new music.

This is unfortunate because I’m more reliant on and interested in new music in the past 6 months than the 6 years before.

[1] My first full-time job in UW-Stout’s tech department. The same radio station was on in the office throughout the day. Because radio listenership is measured by the quarter-hour, after an hour in the shop, you knew the playlist for the next hour - and every 15 minutes thereafter. A painful way to spent 8 hours in a college town

Noah Lamson, New Media Director at ABC Radio in Minneapolis and I grab lunch at Diamonds Coffee Shoppe. He’s publishing feeds for 92KQRS, Drive105, and 93X and we discuss the interesting relationship between broadcast radio and podcasting.

If you stop by Diamonds, try the grilled cheese with bacon & tomato. Very tasty.

Listen to Broadcast Radio and Podcasting with Noah Lamson [15 min]

Two years after their first demo, Dave and Huna got a real, over-the-air, AM call-in talk radio show on March 6, 2005. They tell you what it was like and how to do it.

More Stuff:

• AM 1500 “The Next Big Thing”
• Dave’s posts on the experience at doodledee.com
  • “yes, i’ll be imagining all of you naked”
  • “please return to your regularly scheduled programming”
• Huna’s posts on the experience:
  • “YES, I lip-synced, so sue me”
  • “Dave and Huna on 1500″

If you want to buy Huna’s car, send an email to firstcrack@gmail.com

Listen to Get Your Own Radio Show By Dave & Huna [31 min]

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