Comments on: The Bopst Show: “Accept Your Fate” (Episode 59)

By: David Balderdash

David Balderdash — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:03:21 +0000

I listened to The Bopst Show, when I lived in Richmond. Now I listen to it in Austin, and I have a show on the same station.

I wish the entire city of Richmond would just merge with Austin, already. I’m not sure the country’s ready for a city that sweet, though.

By: Valerie Catrow

Valerie Catrow — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:51:58 +0000

I love the idea – I think it responds to what people are looking for from their entertainment/news/etc sources.

But it’s a question of manpower at this point. If *certain* people wanted to donate their services, well, that would be a different story.

By: Mr. Bopst

Mr. Bopst — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:19:16 +0000

So Val, what do you think of a possible RVA News Radio? You down?

By: Valerie Catrow

Valerie Catrow — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:36:38 +0000

I would also like Ross Catrow to be a rich man.

By: SLANDER BOB

SLANDER BOB — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:48:08 +0000

Thanks for mentioning us. KAOS is also availible here in Austin on FM at 95.9. We’ve been a functioning pirate radio station here for almost 7 years with the occasional FM hiatus. Seems it’s more of a community standards thing here in Austin. Nobody really complains about it, and we get praise in local press here. The station can be picked up on FM for about a ten mile radius from the central Austin area, so the station can be heard on campus, downtown, north Austin, and South Austin over the airwaves.

SLANDER SUNDAYS 9AM – 4PM EST

POD-0-MATIC -9AM
THE BOPST SHOW 10AM – 12PM
WHAT IS IT? -12PM – 2PM
THE SLANDER BOB SHOW 2PM – 4PM

We are glad to have Chris aboard our Slander Sunday line up.

Cheers,

Slander Bob
(program director and DJ for Slander Sundays on KAOS)

By: bopst

bopst — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:08:58 +0000

Helping the community is all fine and dandy, but all I really want to do is to make Ross Catrow a rich man….

By: Scott Burger

Scott Burger — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:33:40 +0000

Back in the day, before the political factors aligned to the point that a LPFM license was possible, Richmond Independent Radio was in the basement of the Camel (back then Fusion community-center-under-construction) doing internet radio experiments.

One of the ideas being batted around back then was trying to see some of the neighborhoods with LPAM (low power AM that would pass under the FCC radar without having to resort to pirate FM) microstations. Picture small but interconnected studios at the Fulton Hill NRC, at Oregon Hill’s SynerGeo, at the Fan’s Camel, etc. Part of that vision was having individual neighborhood internet raio streams (including neighborhood news/civic association meeting/etc.) that could be aggregated into a larger Richmond one.

We also toyed around with doing some micro-tv transmissions (which might now have more revelence with the digital switch-over), but honestly the internet is still the field of play. Which leads to the bigger question of why Richmond still does not have muni-wifi internet (Charlottesville is ahead of us), despite many calls for it by the Richmond Greens and Richmond Free Wireless.

http://www.vagreenparty.org/richblog/?p=366

Anyway, I am always happy to see rvanews and RVAmagazine kicking this stuff around. Collectively, we are someday going to drag Richmond into a new century and can hopefully tell the local corporate fascists to fuck off.

By: bopst

bopst — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:35:36 +0000

Agreed. That is a stellar idea and one worthy of becoming a listening reality.

And my eternal knock on Richmond has been this: we only have one of everything. As good and as important as WRIR is, we need more than one community broadcasting outlet. On RVA NEWS, I imagine a handy little link in the green header that says, “RVA News Radio” that streams audio content already available all consolidated into a stream. At first, a couple of hours of programming would play (6 hours or so) updated maybe once or twice a week. If the idea catches on, audio versions of stories and articles here and news updates from the various community blogs (as well as tracks from Richmond bands from yesterday, today & tomorrow) could be added to flesh things out with the eventual goal of having fresh content posted on a daily basis. Going live would require an epic amount of work and commitment, but at this stage of the game, there is already enough recorded material to create a quality listening experience by simply organizing already existing material into a stream. It would be a good place to start anyway.

By: Scott Burger

Scott Burger — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:30:09 +0000

I like the idea a lot. WRIR should be doing more of this also.

Here is an idea I am interested in seeing happen but don’t have time or patience to do myself – an (online?) repository of Virginia recorded music – not just the “official releases” of cds and records but also demo tapes, live performances, etc. It could be central to a Virginia Music Hall of Fame that would appeal to EVERYONE.