Open Source Radio

Via Lisa comes a link to Open Source, a public radio program produced out of WGBH, Boston.

It sounds a little fruity, we know. “Everybody join hands” this seems to read, “and we’ll make beautiful radio together.” But it’s kind of true. We’re trying to produce radio in a completely new way. Hop in.

What a neat concept. I’ve subscribed in iTunes.

More on “alternative programming”

Via my friend Hilary, from Antonia Zerbisias‘s excellent blog:

And, for those Toronto area listeners who are missing their Andy Barrie, Metro Morning is doing a dry run on Monday on CIUT 89.5 FM, and is set to go live Monday to Friday 6:30-8 starting Labour Day.

It’s great that these dedicated CBCers want to continue practising their craft and serving the public interest, even as management is disregarding it. But aren’t they concerned that, by doing all this work for nothing (or even less if they have to pay for programming expenses out-of-pocket), they’re showing that CBC can get by with less taxpayer funding?

CBC On the Line now online

Here it is, folks: the official CMG online news magazine. It’s called CBC On the Line, and it’s looking for submissions. Sadly, no RSS (yet).

And, earlier today outside the broadcast centre in Toronto, there was talk of getting a morning show podcast off the ground from the University of Toronto’s CIUT studios. As far as I understand, they’re talking 2 hours of daily “business as usual” local programming, slated to begin early next week.

I Love Radio.org

From Tod’s site yesterday:

Today, 6,253 “unique visitors” visited the blog — about a third were returning visitors. I have never seen traffic like this. I will certainly keep it up as long as I’m able to (the bandwidth costs are going to hurt).

I Love Radio.org has been a consistently wonderful resource for me and many others over the past year or so. It’s been especially nice recently to have such a comprehensive lockout-related site. This sentiment has been echoed over and over on the picket lines here in Toronto, and I’m sure, all across the world.

I know Tod has some small “Ads by Google” on his individual post pages (like this one). I’m pretty sure he’s not allowed to encourage others to click on them, but is there anything to stop me?

So, if you’re at his site (and I imagine if you’re reading this, you have been recently or will soon), and you see a Google ad that interests you — give ‘er a click.

Every little bit helps, right?

Toronto update

I’ve really been enjoying my time here in Toronto. I’m halfway through my twenty hours, and have been meeting some very cool people on the line; people I otherwise would never have met: audio post-production television workers, people from corporate communications, graphic designers, national television producers… the list goes on. Plus, a couple people have asked, “What’s your name? Dan? Dan the blogger?” So that’s kind of neat.

I’ve run into several former colleagues from CBL, and several former classmates from Ryerson. Some were employed this summer by CBC, and others dropped by to say hello and do a couple laps with me.

People ask if I’m back in Toronto for good. “No,” I tell them. “I’m back just for this week, then I’ll go to Windsor for a few days. Then, come September first, I’ll move back to Toronto full-time. I don’t know if you’re heard,” I joke, hoping what I’m about to say isn’t true, “I took a job here as a professional picketer.”

I hope to be on the line for 11:00 today. There’s a “radio meeting” scheduled for then — there’s talk of starting up an “alternative” morning show. Which, I’m delighted, has generated a wonderful dialogue in the comments section of a recent post.

And in an unrelated note, I’m really digging Google Talk (or the iChat support, anyway). I’m dmisener [at] gmail [dot] com if you feel like trying it out.