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BMG talk radio? — update: take the front-page poll!

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OK, so the Quick Hits thing seems to be a non-starter.  I’ll take it down — there are no doubt better uses for the left sidebar real estate.

Now, on to another interesting topic: blog talk radio!  This site allows anyone to run an internet-based talk radio call-in show, and lots of the cool kids are already doing it.  It works just like regular talk radio — we can interview guests or just natter on ourselves, and there’s a call-in number for anyone to participate in the conversation.  The difference, of course, is that you listen online rather than over the airwaves.  The program streams live (via Windows Media Player, which also runs on Mac), and after the show is done it remains available as a podcast.  We can schedule as many shows as we want, whenever we want.

So, if we had such a show and could get some interesting guests (which I think we could do), would you listen?  Would you participate?  If so, what would be good days and times?  Should this be an evening thing so that people aren’t at work?  [UPDATE: there’s now a front-page poll on this topic, at steverino’s suggestion.]

Thanks for your thoughts and ideas, as always!

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  1. I’ve been talking with various people for a while on creating a bay state lefty podcast for a while… so I’d definitely listen and like the concept of doing it live, then having it saved as a podcast – that’s kind of the best of both worlds.

      • Does it have to be either/or?  A morning slot and an evening slot, with perhaps a weekend gig?  Depending on the hosts (David?) availability and demand it seems possible to jump over the moon.

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        I would be psyched to hear a wide range of topics and speakers from historical perspectives of political movements, baystate centric issues, municipal perspectives, candidates, party (plural) platform discussions, energy to political satire/comedy and a zillion other topics.

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        Marge, Jim and Tom – BMG is comin’, comin’ today.

  2. I would vote for Sunday evening as the least conflicted, say about 9:00 PM – but what do I know?  What do you all think as to that time frame – and who would host?

  3. We really could fill up most of the day:

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    midnight-1:00 “The Apocalypse Hour with LastHorseman”
    1:00-4:00 “White Noise with RRRM and JDHaverhill”
    4:00-5:00 “Candidates You’ve Never Heard Of, with lolorb and sabutai”
    5:00-6:00 “Democrat, Republican, or other?  Featuring KBusch and JoeTS”
    6:00-7:30 “Good Morning Lowell” (hosted by Lynne, naturally)
    7:30-9:30  “Ninety-Minute DriveTime with Steverino.  MTA traffic updates by Charley”
    9:30-10:30  “Ryan’s Take…Live On Campus”
    10:30-11:00 “The Weekday LaGeur Report”
    11:00-11:05 “Today’s Ten Reasons I Love Deval”
    11:05-11:06 “The Peter Porcupine Minute”
    11:06-4:06 “Goldstein on Charters”
    4:06-5:00 “Cos Does Meta”
    5:00-6:00 “Choice Personal Invective”
    6:00-6:30 “The Mutual Misunderstanding Show”
    6:30-7:00 (Rules of the Road broadcast on a loop)
    7:00-7:05 “Why Can’t We Edit Comments? (New Hosts Every Day)”
    7:05-7:30 “The Polling Report with EBIII”
    7:30-8:30 “AmberPAW Explains Law Using Words You Won’t Be Able to Understand”
    8:30-10:00 “Righteous Indignation (Revolving Hosts)
    10:00-12:00 “The Very Blue Mass Group presented by the Editors”

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    I want Kate Donoghue for news anchor on the hour.

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    And so on… (apologies to anyone who wanted to be included who wasn’t, and anyone included who didn’t want to be).

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