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[David Lewis]

I'm sure that the casino would advertise profusely. Maybe a public service
program with Tribal meetings on the air. There is something of a population
out there and with webcasting and repeaters, I think it would be a go. Now
all we need is lots of money and to hire a few people. A little planning
might help too.
David
At 03:05 AM 01/22/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:13:47 -0800, Mike Cleven <ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM>
>wrote:
>
> >What would be easier, maybe, would be to come up with syndicatable
> >shorts that could either be played on demand from off the web or
> >syndicated out to certain radio shows and stations who like this kind of
> >thing.
>
>Yes, exactly.  Buried in my rambling message was a similar seed of an
>idea.  I "worked" at KBOO in its very early days (as a young teenager
>I was allowed to hang around the station), and I learned a lot from
>my patient mentor there about the difficulties and realities of
>getting a community radio station off the ground.  (With dedicated
>support and much diligent work, KBOO succeeded and thrives today,
>while similar efforts in other cities have failed or are failing.)
>Later in high school I had the opportunity to intern at KOAP-TV (now
>KOPB) for a summer.  This was a much more conventional operation to
>be sure, but still one struggling (at that time) with very limited
>resources.  These experiences gave me a realistic notion of how much
>effort is required to get a basic but informative half-hour on the
>air.
>
>I later edited a short series of weekly radio programs during a brief
>stint in college.  These were simple interviews which involved just
>two workers and were relatively easy to do.  The spots were carried
>by a small commercial rock station (in Roseburg, yaay!) as
>public-service or news time and worked well.  But each 10-minute
>program still took two to three man-hours to create.
>
>The way the interview programs worked was quite simple:  a journalism
>student took a cassette recorder and a list of questions and to an
>appointment with a subject on campus and got an interview.  But I
>went a bit further with it; I reviewed the tape and took careful
>notes and constructed an outline.  Without altering the interview
>significantly, I did some reorganizing, and the product was much more
>coherent.  (I essentially retro-scripted the interview.  A cassette
>transcriber is very handy.)  Just five or six judicious edits and
>dropping a couple irrelevant or sidetracked minutes improved the
>program a lot.
>
>I'd suggest that something in this neighborhood (say, two or three
>people making 30 minutes a month) would be a good level to shoot at
>for starters.  Accumulate four or six 15-minute segments so there
>will be enough to offer an air outlet to review, select and schedule.
>(They could be run as a block or spread over a week or month,
>whatever.)  Positive results on such a scale could likely be achieved
>in short order, which would then attract both more help and (by
>establishing some reputation by example) more willing subjects and
>sources.  With care it can grow.  A lot.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jeff

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