Station programming

[MrMagoo]

Whoa! I never thought this would turn into discussion of canceling shows or requests. Sorry if that ever came across - those absolutely were not my intent. I've no idea how canceling requests entered the picture, and even though some shows don't spin my prop, I respect the DJ's and others who do enjoy that show. Mostly this was to stimulate discussion of how to encourage new music. Thus the observation of interaction based on shows with live DJ's in the black box, and Themin' Thursday.

So if users are what drive the AM family, how do we engage users further, both with station action and financial support? Ideas:
- as before & see below, a prominent FAQ
- PSA's that promote the site, URL, and features
- station pledge drives ala PBS (yes, I'm ducking now)
- goodies award/drawing give-aways; CafePress items, spare CD's, etc (PITA IMO)
- collectively DJ'd shows from users submissions, aka the notorious birthday & anniversery shows
- I like Vax's idea of more prominently featuring new music via sticky/tab/etc.
- is it possible/useful to get the site URL in the stream text tag (I've no idea if users listen without knowing about the site)?

Re FAQ: rather than starting a forum thread for discussion, I volunteer to receive FAQ PM's from everybody by mid October. I'll compile them, pass them by PDJ & Avian, then work with them to get a tab, sticky Station News, left menu item, whatever makes it persistent.

I also really want to honor Jim/Avian/Vax by making the station self-sufficient in paying for infrastructure & bandwidth!

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by MrMagoo

- station pledge drives ala PBS (yes, I'm ducking now)
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I think that would create a situation where the same few pay most of the cost....we should be consistent with amounts donated. I hope to help with assessing this.

thanks for reeling us back in magoo...hope to get some good ideas!

[PFD]

I don't know if this is feasible but how about say on no-request Wednesdays having AM programmed to only play songs that have been input into the database in the past 12 months or something like that?

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by MrMagoo

- station pledge drives ala PBS (yes, I'm ducking now)

Donate a $150 and you get the Yanni CD

Originally Posted by MrMagoo

I also really want to honor Jim/Avian/Vax by making the station self-sufficient in paying for infrastructure & bandwidth!

It's because I love the music that I donated the server and the bandwidth. I believed that it might offset Jim's costs and that others might have felt compelled to be altruistic as well... Silly me.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by VAXman

It's because I love the music that I donated the server and the bandwidth. I believed that it might offset Jim's costs and that others might have felt compelled to be altruistic as well... Silly me.

Yes we should be ashamed of ourselves.

[Avian]

Originally Posted by VAXman

It's because I love the music that I donated the server and the bandwidth. I believed that it might offset Jim's costs and that others might have felt compelled to be altruistic as well... Silly me.

Well, I can't speak for Jim, but from what I understand, there has been a LOT of music donated from various listeners (that's real cash - not just CDs lying around). Plus, we do get members who regularly donate more than $50 for the 128k stream. We're incredibly grateful to everyone who puts in their time, effort and money to help keep the station alive.