Comments on: Please stop trying to be a radio show http://madphilosopher.ca/2005/07/please-stop-trying-to-be-a-radio-show/ Because being mad is all the rage. A personal weblog of Darren Paul Griffith. Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:28:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David http://madphilosopher.ca/2005/07/please-stop-trying-to-be-a-radio-show/#comment-97 David Sat, 16 Jul 2005 22:58:56 +0000 http://madphilosopher.ca/2005/07/please-stop-trying-to-be-a-radio-show/#comment-97 Hi there. I'm the senior producer for Open Source. I'm not sure if anyone else has responded yet, but I figured I'd send you an answer. I actually would have responded earlier, but I was truly confused by your comment. Specifically: I wasn't sure if you were being serious. It's not that we're <i>trying</i> to be a radio show; we <i>are</i> a radio show. We broadcast live in Boston, and are syndicated on a few public radio stations around the country. We're <i>also</i>, and proudly, a podcast. If we're ever asinine, it's not because we're fabricating a clock. We follow a real clock -- a relatively standard one in the public radio world -- with a five-minute news hole at one minute past the hour, and two minute-long station ID breaks at 19:00 and 39:00. Our web head Brendan then cuts these breaks out of the hour, rips an MP3, and uploads it for our podcast. Anyway, we're happy that you enjoy the show, and we hope that you'll listen live some time (7 to 8pm, EST, Monday through Thursday): http://streams.wgbh.org/wgbh/ Best regards, Dave Hi there. I’m the senior producer for Open Source. I’m not sure if anyone else has responded yet, but I figured I’d send you an answer. I actually would have responded earlier, but I was truly confused by your comment. Specifically: I wasn’t sure if you were being serious.

It’s not that we’re trying to be a radio show; we are a radio show. We broadcast live in Boston, and are syndicated on a few public radio stations around the country. We’re also, and proudly, a podcast.

If we’re ever asinine, it’s not because we’re fabricating a clock. We follow a real clock — a relatively standard one in the public radio world — with a five-minute news hole at one minute past the hour, and two minute-long station ID breaks at 19:00 and 39:00. Our web head Brendan then cuts these breaks out of the hour, rips an MP3, and uploads it for our podcast.

Anyway, we’re happy that you enjoy the show, and we hope that you’ll listen live some time (7 to 8pm, EST, Monday through Thursday):

http://streams.wgbh.org/wgbh/

Best regards,
Dave

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