BS: broadcasting from home....

Subject: BS: broadcasting from home....
From: tarheel
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:42 PM

many of you know that i have been on and off of the internet radio station www.globalgospelradio.com   for over a year now!
well,i finally have solved my problem of being away from home at night to do the show(even thouigh it was only 5 miles up the road in King,N.C..)
the Good Lord up above has provided funds and technology to set up a branch station in my home now,in Rural Hall,N.C.,U.S.A.!...in fact i did a live broadcast friday night,jan.,7th,for over an hour!
using my home boom box as a temporary cd player,i am able to play lots of good ole blue grass,old time and southern gospel music now and broadcast my show from the comfort of my DEN!
of course downloading the Encoder from the internet,was the biggest thing that had to be done right and so i was blessed to have a young kid, "purter whizz" to do that for me...
now along with some help from the station owner,bill hale,we hooked up everything friday afternoon and got on the air that night!
the original station is located in King,N.C.,U.S.A., and there is also a branch station in Beckley,West Virginia!!!
anyway,i am soon to have a regular cd player that holds 5 cd's and you can program the songs you want to play,plus it will be used for the overnight automation after midnight til 7 am the next morning! (when mother nature calls me to get up and release some fluids,i can add new cd's to replace those already played for the overnight)!
anyway,you can catch me on the air and online around the 9:00 pm hour til midnight most nights EST,as soon as the new cd players arrives...
until then,i will be on an hour or two each night playing Blue Grass,Ole Time and Southern Gospel Music!
even though it's a Gospel radio station,i am allowed to play "reality" songs by any artist! (as long as they do not pertain to drinkin' and cheatin',muderin',etc..)
so,that means if any mudcatter would like me to featuter their cd realease,i will be happy to do so...
just let me know by PM in here and i'll let you know where to send your cd and all the info about it(including songs,musicians,your area where you live in the world,etc..)
again,the website is    www.globalgospelradio.com    and i will be broadcasting nightly 9:00pm til midnight,EST!!!

Subject: RE: BS: broadcasting from home....
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 05:22 PM

(as long as they do not pertain to drinkin' and cheatin',muderin',etc..)

That leaves out folk, c + w and bluegrass.

Subject: RE: BS: broadcasting from home....
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 05:23 PM

Sorry, Chuck.

Congratulations, buddy.

Bruce M

Subject: RE: BS: broadcasting from home....
From: tarheel
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 07:10 PM

it's ok brucie....i understand!...but a lot of good songs are also about the world,mom,dad and home...,God's country,old ireland,etc., i think you get the picture and i'd love to feature anyones cd on my show with that kind of material.., so dont be afraid to ask me about your marterial on your cd,folks!!!....tar

Subject: RE: BS: broadcasting from home....
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 12:11 AM

You will get lots of stuff from 'catters, Chuck. I am very happy for you--that you are DJing a show, and that it is a fulfillment of what must be an ambition you've had for some time now. YEAH! Be proud muh man.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: broadcasting from home....
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 12:15 AM

You have become a tree falling in the wood....with no one near.

Go to hard-copy it has endured the melleniums.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: broadcasting from home....
From: tarheel
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 01:14 PM

well actually BRUCIE,....i feel as though i have come full circle now!
when i was 12 years old i was playing my guitar ans singing on a local radio station (and it was a big deal back then...1948)and radio fascinated me to the point that i wanted to be a part of broadcasting. i managed to hang around that station (WAIR AM and FM)and learn all i could about broadcasting,production,etc..then in 1953,i was a junior in high school,the first TV station went on the air here!i marched myself over to the building where it was located and went right in to see if i could get a job there...i remember going up the flight of stairs and this gentleman was coming down the stairs and stopped me to ask if he could help me!(unbeknownest to me,he was the tv program director)...anyway,i told him that i wanted to get a job in TV...then he asked me,"son,do you know anything about tv?"   i answered him honestly by sdaying,"no sir ,i dont!" to my amazement he replied,"well,we don't either,come on in!"...
so,that's how i got my job in tv!
i worked part time on the production crew after school and into the late hours each night,but i learned all i could!
i was also an amateur photographer and that was a plus for my knowledge in operatinmg a studio tv camera...
i worked at 2 or 3 stations over the next few yeara and wound up in Charlotte,N.C.,working at WSOC-TV on the production crew!
one day in 1965,the TV NEWS director asked me to come to work for him in the news dept! i knew very little about covering TV NEWS with a camera,but this guy liked me and my spunk,so i took the job and he sent me to Norman,Oklahoma,to the Universty there,where they had a yearly siminar for tv news photographers!
dang,i busted my but for 2 weeks and finished in top of the class!
so that's how i became a TV news Photographer...that was 1965...i retired in 1999,still a TV NEWS photographer with an EMMY AWARD along with various other awards for tv news stories i had done over the years! but my Emmy came to me in 1998,at the the University of Vanderbilt, in Nashville,Tennesssee,during the prestigeous SILVER CIRCLE AWARDS that are presented there each year to a very linited number of tv news people from all over the country!!!you have to be nominated for it and sometimes that process my go on for years before they accept the nomoinatin for you...mine was accepted the first year!
so,now i am back in radio(on the internet)but it's a way of keeping up with the new technology and believe me,it's totally different in our world now than 40/50 years ago!
my job here is Voluntary,but God Almighty in his infinite mercy has helped provide the way for me to do this and help me aquire the equipment at BARGAIN prices and I give HIM the credit and Thanks for it all! AND,i use this entire operation to HIS HONOR and Glory!!!it's really neat to have all this equipment and opportunity to continue to be a part of the broadcasting scene,today!!!
hey,i really never thought TV was where i'd end up...wnen i was first pickin' and grinn' on the radio as a boy of 12 years old,i was also SELLING NEWSPAPERS on the street corner in downtown Winston-Salem,N.C.,and that was bAck in the days when you yelled,"Paper!!!! Get Your Evening Paper!" it was neat too!and ther newspaper sold for FIVE cents,back then and i got TWO ans A HALF CENTS on every paper i sold!if i sold 100 papers,i made $2.50,that day...believe me,that wasa a lot of money for a 12 year old kid,then!
but as Paul Harvey would say,"And now you know,THE REST OF THE STORY!"