On Wednesday, March 5, all live streaming of Troubadour 1700 will be consolidating to a single URL:

http://50.58.47.66:7010/listen.pls

Title and artist information will be restored to this stream at that time. Listening on TuneIn should be unaffected. Also, progress on the creation of my Indiegogo fundraiser has FINALLY picked up over the past week. My hope is for completion over the next seven days, and debut on line in 7-10 days.

Farewell, Pete

If you have a history of folk music radio like I do, it was difficult early this week to wrap your mind around the fact that Pete Seeger is no longer with us. I was hoping he would make it to 100, but his body wouldn't go the distance... although he was still chopping wood within ten days of his death. He was a man of strong convictions and he acted upon them. Yet he was so affable and disarming, I don't see how anyone could dislike him... and all those compelling songs and performances (more like rallies!). Will Pete Seeger be regarded as the greatest American folk singer? He just may be.

JFK 50th Truth Radio ends its run

JFK 50th Truth Radio: The Assassination of America completed a fascinating run of nearly two months on 102.9 FM. Whatever broadcast configurations I may have at my disposal in November 2014, I am determined to rerun the 55 plus features and any new additions during that entire month in some form. A mix of broadcast interviews, lectures, and articles from witnesses and the experts, documentary soundtracks, and original JFK speeches were featured. Instead of dumbing you down with lies and coverups like the mainstream "mockingbird" media still insists upon, our features brought you into the world of the sharpest, most honest, and thorough researchers and qualified witnesses in the genre. But for now, it's back to NOAA weather to get you through another tough New England winter, as well as any other mass activism or special events that may occur.

Promotional Video for upcoming Minimum Wage Media Crowd Funding Campaign is now complete

There was a steep learning curve because I had never done digital video editing before, and at first I couldn't envision doing such a project all by myself. There was also a two week detour as I looked into a potential new LPFM station for Ayer, MA, since the LPFM filing deadline was moved up to November 14th. But after a month of plodding along, at least I can now say that the video portion of the upcoming Indiegogo.com proposal is complete. The rest should be easier.


When the entire campaign is ready on line, it will be announced here and many other places.

87.9 returns; Troubadour on a single stream

Liberty & Justice 87.9 returned to the air at approximately 6 AM on Friday 9/27 through a computer with a new hard drive and operating system. Also, due to apparent processor limitations, I had to cut back to only one stream for Troubadour 1700 at 64k. Encoding two 64k streams, Sound Solutions audio processing, plus broadcast automation is a tall order for any single computer. Note the current stream URL:
http://67.212.163.37:8100

Liberty & Justice 87.9 off the air due to hard drive failure

Liberty & Justice 87.9 has been off the air for nearly a week due to a damaged hard drive. The trouble shooting and replacement process has been far more troublesome and time consuming than it should have been, thanks to the egos and proprietary obsessions of certain computer manufacturers during the late XP and Vista eras. The Emachines computer that manages L&J 87.9's air product "came" my way as a nearly new unit. It wasn't my purchasing choice. In less than three years, it has blown both a motherboard and a hard drive.

After experiences with three of their products, and reading tales of woe from others, I'm convinced the Emachines line exists solely as a dumping ground for substandard parts from otherwise quality vendors such as Seagate and Intel. My advice if you own one: don't replace the failed part with an Emachines OEM. Find a similar replacement directly from the part manufacturer. Anyway, since I can't use the recovery discs I have decided upon an expensive upgrade to Windows 8. Either way, I would have to rebuild all the software from scratch. The station may be back on this weekend. If not,
it will be early next week.

The timing of this development couldn't have been worse. Between this and other pressing matters, no work on the proposal mentioned below has been done in nine days. It is extremely frustrating!!

Also, due to the disappearance of title streaming several months ago, I have added an additional stream (at least for now) for Troubadour 1700 that restores the feature. The new stream URL is as follows:
http://67.212.163.37:8010.

Both the new stream and the older one are now encoding in AAC+ and the quality is superb.

COMING SOON: MINIMUM WAGE MEDIA'S CROWD FUNDING CAMPAIGN

BRING OUR PROGRAMMING TO TWO LICENSED COMMERCIAL RADIO STATIONS
SOMEWHERE ALONG THE NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS ROUTE 2 CORRIDOR

This is the "goal of goals" and I am determined to make it happen one way or
another, either through outright purchase of the facilities, an "LMA to
ownership" arrangement, or by challenging the FCC license renewals of
two local stations. (All Massachusetts radio stations have their FCC
licenses up for renewal in April 2014.) It all depends upon the level
of support we achieve, which of course, depends upon how effectively we
publicize the effort far and wide among our target demographics and
among entrepreneurial professionals.

Are you tired of local radio station ownerships dominated by fundamentalist Christians,
neo-conservatives, and those of the lowest common denominator of
American mainstream "thought"? Would you like to finally have a local
radio management that is anti-war, anti-corporate, pro-economic
justice, pro-natural, organic, and local food, pro-vegan, pro-health
freedom, anti-GMO, and pro-small business entrepreuerialism,
craftsmanship, and the arts? Then you need to support this effort.

If you would like to see the return of folk music to the local radio dial
(in the spirit of WSLE and WADN), along with new age music, world
music, and Americana (and possibly on weekends, 1960's and 70's oldies
and forgotten FM tracks, 1980's country, Brazilian roots music, and other
forms of GENUINE music), then you need to get behind this effort
and spread the word.

Our crowd funding effort on Indiegogo.com will be announced here when it is ready.
Currently, I am bolstering my professional and social networking in anticipation of it.
Stay tuned!