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« Steve Seel joins the team | A note from Dale Connelly » Goin' shoppingJanuary 06, 2005 Thorn (music director), and DJs Mark and Mary went shopping for CDs yesterday. They hit the local stores and brought back piles of stuff. Our local merchants were very happy to see our new staff, and of course we are all happy to patronize the local stores. From the looks on their faces when they returned, Thorn, Mark, and Mary had a lot of fun in the process. Today, various people are sitting at their desk logging the CDs and getting our music stash ready for action. Our IT department is also setting up everyone's computers so they can read inter-office email, search the web, and use our music library software. There are also a couple of engineers in the studio with spools of wire hooking up things like our new in-studio telephone system. Thanks for all the ideas for Day One programming. As for when Day One will be, I'm afraid you still have a little wait. We are working nearly around the clock, but we still have a few things on the "to do" list before we go live. Thanks for your understanding! We appreciate all the support and ideas that are coming in through this web log. In the meantime, we hope to start posting some audio early next week. Posted by Sarah Lutman at 05:09 PM
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Good luck on a great project. I've just moved back to Minnesota from Colorado, where I was a volunteer DJ with a new community radio station KRFC-FM out of Fort Collins (http://www.krfcfm.org). Great to see y'all are keeping it local. If some western college town of 125,000 can do 100% local, all volunteer on-air talent, imagine what the Twin Cities could do! Also, take a look at a couple off-Billboard charts: http://www.rootsmusicreport.com out of texas, great roots rock, alt.country, folk, blues, from real radio play all over, and http://www.americanaradio.org from the Americana Music Association--Kasey Chambers has been riding this for weeks, it's a great variety with proven drawing power. I'm way outstate Southwest, but will listen for the stream... jc great news on mark wheat hire. I am a big kcrw fan, also kumd/world cafe. Don't forget james lauer at wnur in evanston, ill. There is a wonderful wonderful bunch of music in the world, that mpls st paul barely, barely barely hears. kfai and radio k get to it, but there is still more. The kcrw on my headphones right now is just fabulous. long live hand picked music!! I will now rejoin mpr. really excited about your deal. Posted by: John Jaffray at January 7, 2005 10:54 AMI'd like to thank Sarah and MPR for posting these daily updates. It really gets me excited for the new station. Thanks for keeping us informed! Posted by: Steve at January 7, 2005 12:19 PM
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not every song will please every listener, but as long as we can get more breadth & depth than a commercial station (which isn't hard to do) then everyone will be served well
i'm so sick of "How Soon Is Now?" & "Beds Are Burning" - not that they are bad songs but if you listen to 97 or 105 its as if those are the only songs The Smiths & Midnight Oil ever recorded - we know they have 100s of good songs & we want to hear more than just the 2 - this goes for ALL other talented artists played on commercial radio - & of course during your shopping trip i'm sure you picked up all those talented artists that NEVER get airplay - we want to hear them 2!
i can never thank you all enough for everything you are doing here - make sure to let the big-wigs at MPR know that I will be more consistent & more generous w/ my membership dollars & I'm sure others will be as well
Posted by: Tom at January 6, 2005 09:58 PM