As of April 30th, ATOMIC BOOGIE RADIO expires and goes to heaven. I know it didn’t last very long. We were going to put five more hours of stuff on it this weekend, but during last week’s show we were so disappointed we just decided not to bother any more.
The website it appeared through is called LOUDCASTER. The main thing they do is allow customers to upload MP3s and assign them to playlists which their service then plays back over their website at a time scheduled by the customer. BUT THEY CAN’T EVEN GET THAT RIGHT! They always dropped out songs, or played them back in the wrong order. I know that probably doesn’t sound that serious, but it meant a lot to us to have things presented IN THE WAY WE WANTED! If listeners didn’t like it, OK, we at least would have been allowed to try it our way and fail doing it the way we wanted.
For example, last week’s show, for tax week, was called “The Money Program”. All the tracks for two hours were about money. After The Beatles’ “Taxman”, we had scheduled a National Lampoon parody of an H&R Block commercial. We had six of these H&R Block parodies that were scheduled to turn up at various times throughout the first hour, creating a running gag about taxes. LOUDCASTER just dropped all of them! We had two songs about money trees – “Money Tree Blues” by Willie Dixon, followed by “Money Tree” by Jumpin’ Bill Carlisle. They moved the Carlisle song to later in the show, no longer playing up the thematic link between the two songs. The end result was just a random bunch of songs about money with no other continuity and displaying virtually NO SENSE OF HUMOR! We had about 50 hours of programs all worked out, and we thought they were pretty clever and entertaining, but LOUDCASTER edited and resequenced all the cleverness out of everything we’ve tried so far, so we quit!.
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