[Speed Gibson,
Wednesday December 7, 2005 at 7:07am]
Podcasting
Our friends Tony Garcia and Marty Andrade produce their own radio show Race to the Right on St. Cloud's KNSI 1450 AM Sundays from 1 to 3pm.
Lately, they have been "podcasting" their shows, but say they have received some "threats" of legal action. You can guess from whom. I hope they resume podcasting, for several reasons.
1. I don't like bullies who have nothing invested, neither time, money, megabytes, nor kilowatts.
2. Race to the Right gives us some non-Metro perspective, much as King does at SCSU Scholars.
3. Podcasting is a great technology, with portable players and desktop PC's so inexpensive.
4. Race to the Right is good radio. They had a somewhat rocky start, far better than most of us would have done, but that's over. They're latest broadcasts show that they're learning the business, even controlling the ah's and um's much better. A particularly good segment was Tony's research and coverage of the Princeton Public Schools referendum. It passed easily only because the citizens up there didn't listen to R2TR.
Lately, they have been "podcasting" their shows, but say they have received some "threats" of legal action. You can guess from whom. I hope they resume podcasting, for several reasons.
1. I don't like bullies who have nothing invested, neither time, money, megabytes, nor kilowatts.
2. Race to the Right gives us some non-Metro perspective, much as King does at SCSU Scholars.
3. Podcasting is a great technology, with portable players and desktop PC's so inexpensive.
4. Race to the Right is good radio. They had a somewhat rocky start, far better than most of us would have done, but that's over. They're latest broadcasts show that they're learning the business, even controlling the ah's and um's much better. A particularly good segment was Tony's research and coverage of the Princeton Public Schools referendum. It passed easily only because the citizens up there didn't listen to R2TR.
BTW, this past Sunday's podcast are up.
What KSTP needs more than anything right now (besides Jason Lewis?) is a fresh "face" or two. Krok is a dead-end, for example, but that 8-10 slot might be good for R2TR because the Patriot is essentially off the air until at least 11 pm.