Thursday, September 08, 2005
Push play to listen
If you sign into the Ampcast dot com chatroom between 8 and 9 p.m. on Sept. 8, you can play Name The Star. It is a cool parlor game that requires no intelligence, no gesticulating and has no parlor. Prizes will be announced. It is the Dressing Room Hour before 9, when the show goes to the network of stations around the globe and is recorded for podcasters everywhere.
At press time, we did not have confirmation of a guest, but that could change as the hours pass, so the 9 – 11 p.m. show may very well have conversation as well as the usual news, information and insubordination. You just have to tune in to find out. If you are a huge NFL fan, however, we doubt if you will be tuning in, as the march of the steroid soldiers begins its season this evening with a TV broadcast. We are used to the competition for a live audience. Ironic as it is, alternative broadcasting reaches more people than any other form of broadcasting, while at the same time it is heard by less people than any other form of broadcasting.
But we cherished those who listen, the few thousands who find our program absorbing and understand it. Cotolo Chronicles is, after all, a service. It displays a portal to the new world, the digital community, where standards and values swerve in the arena of the new millennium. With that said, we move on …
At press time, we did not have confirmation of a guest, but that could change as the hours pass, so the 9 – 11 p.m. show may very well have conversation as well as the usual news, information and insubordination. You just have to tune in to find out. If you are a huge NFL fan, however, we doubt if you will be tuning in, as the march of the steroid soldiers begins its season this evening with a TV broadcast. We are used to the competition for a live audience. Ironic as it is, alternative broadcasting reaches more people than any other form of broadcasting, while at the same time it is heard by less people than any other form of broadcasting.
But we cherished those who listen, the few thousands who find our program absorbing and understand it. Cotolo Chronicles is, after all, a service. It displays a portal to the new world, the digital community, where standards and values swerve in the arena of the new millennium. With that said, we move on …
