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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
Mr. Dr.
#1: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:33:34 PM

Radio, like Second-Person Narration, is a very underrated medium that still Needs More Love in my opinion. I know that ever since the introduction of the television in the 1950s there been a decline in radio but with the millennium age of technology, with XM and online radio, I'm hoping it makes a comeback. Theres just that aesthetic quality of wing able to tune into a radio station, whether on the air or online streaming, that I think is unmatched.

Anyway, not sure where I was going with this but I'd much rather be awakened by a Jazz radio station than my alarm clock's buzzer.

edited 21st Jan '11 12:34:07 PM by Mattonymy

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#2: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:33:58 PM

OH MY GOD IT EXISTS

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#3: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:39:26 PM

Lol, did you mean Radio or the thread?

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#4: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:40:03 PM

I think they mean the entire forum. Hell, I'm in the same boat!

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#5: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:40:13 PM

The very subforum itself actually.

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#7: Jan 21st 2011 at 1:04:34 PM

Yeah it's awesome! Thank you very much Fast Eddie!

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#8: Jan 21st 2011 at 2:34:06 PM

I have a feeling this is going to end up like Live Performance...

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MousaThe14 Writer, Artist, Ignored from Northern Virginia Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#9: Jan 21st 2011 at 2:36:05 PM

What happened to Live Performance?

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Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
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#10: Jan 21st 2011 at 2:36:39 PM

It's probably the slowest of the media subfora.

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MousaThe14 Writer, Artist, Ignored from Northern Virginia Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#11: Jan 21st 2011 at 2:49:44 PM

You know, we could probably up this subforum if we include podcast.

edited 21st Jan '11 2:49:56 PM by MousaThe14

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#12: Jan 21st 2011 at 2:56:57 PM

I was thinking that too but wouldnt that fall under New Media? Im not sure since many radio stations do include podcasts, so it's a toss up really.

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#13: Jan 21st 2011 at 2:58:47 PM

They're both audio medium and almost every radio show I know puts up an online recording of itself aka a podcast.

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Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
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#14: Jan 21st 2011 at 2:59:00 PM

I'm not sure where they'd fall...either or on a case by case basis?

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#15: Jan 21st 2011 at 3:24:41 PM

According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, a podcast is a

a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player, but the generally accepted definition has expanded to include video as well as audio. Originally derived from a combination of "broadcasting" and "iPod ™," the word was declared "word of the year" when it was added to the dictionary at the end of 2005.

So it seems like Podcasts are a type of broadcast except rather than on the air they're distributed online. Well, considering that we only have two topics for Podcasts, one in New Media and another in Western Animation, is it alright if we make Radio the unofficial subforum for Podcasts?

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#16: Jan 21st 2011 at 3:26:28 PM

Hmm...going by that...yeah.

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#17: Jan 21st 2011 at 5:24:31 PM

Yes, Radio is now the officially unofficial podcast suborum

edited 22nd Jan '11 8:28:24 PM by MousaThe14

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#18: Jan 21st 2011 at 8:11:19 PM

[up] I'm sorry, did you mean Now or did you really mean "not"? I was just following up from your idea.

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#19: Jan 22nd 2011 at 8:28:40 PM

"Now", i meant to say "now", guide dang these typos!

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#20: Jan 22nd 2011 at 9:42:18 PM

Awesome! I'll ask the mods if they could redirect the other Podcast thread here as well.

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#21: Jan 31st 2011 at 2:01:30 PM

I miss the Nightmare Hour and Dead Static heard on my old radio.

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#22: Feb 17th 2011 at 4:10:59 AM

I like that this subforum exists- shows how often I check the forum top that I've only just noticed it.

The podcast debate... I think of them as counting as radio, although an awful lot of podcasts out there wouldn't likely fit on any model of radio otherwise.

...is out to lunch.
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#23: Apr 12th 2012 at 5:25:26 PM

I would like Terrerstial music radio if not for the overwhelming censorship.

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#25: Jul 5th 2012 at 8:18:18 PM

I like listening to old Superman serials on the radio.

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