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01 May 04 - 08:12 PM (#1176184) Subject: Happy Anniversary Folk On Sunday From: Little Robyn "You're listening to Folk On Sunday, on Kidnappers Community Access Radio, 1431am, with Mitch and Robyn Park." That's more or less how our radio programmes begin, every Sunday from 3 to 4pm. We first went to air on 1 May 1996, with a Mayday tribute and playing old records and cassettes from our own personal collection. We continued each week with artists such as the Watersons, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Pete and various other Seegers, Weavers, Woody, Leadbelly, Ray, Archie or Cilla Fisher, Northumbrian pipers, High Level Ranters, all the oldies but goodies. Over the years we have included feild recordings and private tapes of New Zealand folk performers at concerts and folk festivals and gradually CDs have been added until now, when most of the tracks come from CDs, most of them complementary, from singers and recording companies all around the world. These have included mudcatters; Rick Feilding, Art Thieme and Les Barker, to name just a few. We have included tribute shows for birthdays (Pete Seeger) deaths (Sidney Carter, Rick, and Bob Copper recently) and visiting performers as well as 'Specials' on a theme such as railways or sea songs or May or Easter or Christmas - we try to keep up with world happenings and seasonal festivals. This morning, on what should have been our 8th anniversary, we received a phone call to say the Trustees have sacked the Station Manager (who has been responsible for keeping KCAR up and running since its inception, about 9 years ago), the locks on the doors have been changed and the station is silent. We are off the air! The Board of Trustees include an accountant, a bank clerk, a lawyer and one other, I'm not sure who. It appears as if they're trying to 'upgrade' the station but there is a very strong following of listeners who enjoy the amateur aspect, the accessability and airing of local issues and the older style of music, mainly country, celtic and folk (but with 40 year old pop songs appearing too). This is what Mitch posted to Folk dj and NZfolk this morning: Sorry folks, our eighth anniversary programme will not be broadcast, and until you see our next playlist, there is no more Folk on Sunday. The Board of Trustees has abruptly sacked the station's founder manager, changed the locks on the doors and turned off the transmitter. All this without notice to any of the community broadcasters, volunteer announcers and programme providers. We hope to be able to resume fairly soon but our programme may end up being cancelled. We will let you know soon, once impending court action has sorted out the position. I guess I have just one more thing to say - High handed, money focussed Boards of Trustees are RUBBISH! (Sorry for shouting - maybe this should be a BS thread.) Robyn |
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09 May 04 - 12:50 AM (#1181559) Subject: RE: Happy Anniversary Folk On Sunday From: Little Robyn Well, Folk on Sunday has just gone to air again! We had to have a late birthday call for Pete as well as for FOS. The broadcasters had a meeting last week and decided that we wanted to keep broadcasting our programmes and the trustees are keen for us to continue. In fact, I think they've bitten off more than they can chew because they don't know how to put the programmes on and if there are no programmes running, then they're likely to loose their radio station. The ex-station manager is going to take his case to the employment tribunal on the grounds of unfair dismissal and he has quite a good chance of winning because the reasons given are very petty - nit picking. It seems obvious that the trustees set out to get rid of him. But they nearly lost everyone else at the same time! Hang in there Kidnapper's Community Access Radio! Robyn |
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09 May 04 - 12:55 AM (#1181561) Subject: RE: Happy Anniversary Folk On Sunday From: katlaughing Congratulations, Robyn! Good to hear that you all were able to keep it going. Happy Anniversary! kat |
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09 May 04 - 01:49 AM (#1181568) Subject: RE: Happy Anniversary Folk On Sunday From: George Papavgeris Happy anniversary Mitch/Robyn/KCAR! Perhaps from now on on your aniversary you should be playing songs from the prohibition period... |
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01 Jan 06 - 07:54 PM (#1639110) Subject: RE: Happy Anniversary Folk On Sunday From: Little Robyn We're off air again! Yesterday, 1st January 2006 we played our final show. We've struggled on for another 20 months but with the Trustees raising the charges and other problems, it looks as if we've come to the end of the line. So we did our end-of-year round-up and signed off. We have almost 10 years experience and 493 programmes have gone to air and the technology has certainly changed in that time so who knows, maybe something new will come up in the future. But for now, here's Mitch and Robyn signing off. |
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02 Jan 06 - 11:38 AM (#1639641) Subject: RE: Happy Anniversary Folk On Sunday From: breezy echoes of 'The sandman' and monologue I've only heard from Mike Agranoff Well done for the decade, it will surely be a sad loss in your community. just as El Greko was getting some steam up breezy in St Albans U K |
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04 Jan 06 - 06:14 PM (#1641348) Subject: RE: Happy Anniversary Folk On Sunday From: Little Robyn Wow! Change of plan. After negotiations with the Station Manager, we've been offered a free programme provided we take over the cleaning of the place - dusting, vacuuming, scrubbing the loo, wiping down sound desks and keeping the studio ship-shape! At the same time we can put on our own CDs to listen to, separate from our organised programme. So stuff that might not get more than 1 or 2 tracks played during Folk on Sunday could possibly be played for an hour before, while we potter around with dusters! So we should be back on air next Sunday! (I'm not sure if I'm pleased with that arrangement???) 'Sadie, the cleaning lady...........' Robyn |
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04 Jan 06 - 06:27 PM (#1641357) Subject: RE: Happy Anniversary Folk On Sunday From: Little Robyn Sadie, the cleaning lady |