Affiliate Services Webpage

Thank you MRAM for posting this program source.

Just as I found your posting I was thinking about what an amazing resource we (part 15 stations) have in the growing number of radio shows being made available online. So many of these programs are excellent creative works and deserve all the support we can give them.

As far as "UFOs" are concerned, all that means is "unidentified object in the sky" although so many people assume it means "extra-terrestrial space-craft."

In my point of view every object in the sky is unidentified. Even airplanes and birds might only be Trojan horses POSING as airplanes and birds, and might really be some other kind of craft flying in plain view and fooling everybody.

I might not be me, I might be from outer space and maybe I came here to see if you have low power radio.

But no, I am really me and you are really MRAM.

LOL Carl !!!!

I have seen one here in Santa Cruz.
Not sure where it came from or what it was , But I saw one...

Thanks Bob for the links...

Kevin called me earlier this afternoon to let me know about the new Affiliate page. That was nice that he takes the time to call his Affiliates.

Looks like he may still be working on the site as a couple items aren't working yet. He stays real busy between keeping the websites updated, putting together his news letter and preparing for the Monday through Friday shows.

UPDATE: Kevin replied to my earlier email. Yes, the site is still under construction. He expects to have all content links working in 3 or 4 days.

UFO---Unaccounted For Object.

AKA classified.

Example:

RFB

Kevin Smith sent out an update regarding the Affiliate page. The site is ready for use sans a couple minor bugs I found.

Also, the URL has changed: KevinSmithShow.com/affiliates.

Not a bad demo of the show. I may consider it for airplay in the new year.

The phone interruptions during the interview with Stanton Friedman was suspect..to me anyway. The "clicks" sounded a bit close to home base and Friedman would still be talking as though as he did not hear these clicks on his end, but home base kept loosing him at every click.

Hrmmm...well anything UFO or paranormal always presents the unknown!

RFB

Great show,great man,ben carrying his show for years and will continue to as it gets better and better. Give him a slot on your station!

Any of you have any luck negotiating a live stream followed by a re-run the following day (during hours that AM can be heard over a block or two away)? According to the agreement on his site, it's necessary to run the stream live and not delayed. My coverage is excellent during the day, but we all know what happens at night on AM!

Well when dealing with a barter situation the delay-replay should include all in-show advertisements as they were run during the live show. There should be an affiliate page where those who do need to run it delayed can vouch and verify that they did run those ad's.

I can't place a program during a time frame that is already allocated to another, and if said program cannot run delayed while keeping in-show ad's intact, then the program will not be placed...simple as that.

I have to consider the other program that runs in the time slot, and has been for the last 3 years. I wont just toss them aside for another that refuses to be flexible.

Besides, what is the point in having a gazillion stations, most of which are on the internet, all having the same program on at the same time every day for 5 days a week? Isn't that a bit TOO much like how corporate controlled media works...all one deal and no shades of grey or color.

Too bad...might have been a great addition.

RFB

Since we run from a Winamp playlist, a URL for a live stream can be inserted in the playlist, but that doesn't solve the problem of joining the feed on time. Winamp will run all the sound files up to the URL, and unless the timing is ingeniously calculated well in advance, it will join the URL too early or too late.

When we did carry a live network, the Rule-of-Law-Network, I made the join by manually starting the Net, and at the end of the feed I needed to manually start the next program.

I would expect someone to write a Winamp Plugin to allow time-scheduling on their playlist.

Apparently the program works by mutual cooperation with lead in music beds and lead out music beds. There is no net cue triggers from the source, thus running that program WILL require manual intervention.

Not any real big deal, I do just that on Friday's for the live Media Monarchy program. And it would not be any real big deal to to the same for this program.

But here is the bigger problem. My station may not be a licensed entity or commercial entity but I DO respect and honor the time allocations assigned to the programs currently airing on my station. The time slot when this live program airs is when my station runs a program that brings in listener numbers as well as local ratings. There is no way I am going to trash all that hard work and success because this particular live show must run live at that time no exceptions.

Oh well..as I said...it would have been a great addition.

RFB

For Me The live shows are automatically connected exactly when they need to be. Regardless of whats currently playing. Occasionally it will cut into the middle of a song, but its better than cutting in late.

A simple script can take you into a live feed, fairly accurately...and that is if the net feed is not lagged behind the RAM buffer order off the server. IE...your the last on the list vs others who connected before you...which means your not exactly on the hour every hour or on exact time.

Distributing network programs..especially live programs via the internet is not exactly how it's really done simply because of the nature of internet streaming and it's inherent lag time. Plus add the fact that mp3 streaming servers work by serial transmission. This is like placing blocks one after the other in a nice long row. Good for those first few connected inline, but BAD for those at the tail end of the line. The longer that line is..the longer your delay or lag time factor is.

So unless the program provider has an isolated and independent server for each affiliate that is dedicated to each affiliate and one affiliate per feed server only, then you reduce that lag time considerably. At 128Kps, the normal delay time for the first connection is about 20 to 30 seconds. That can add up real fast if there are a large number of connections off just one server. By the time you join up, you could be looking at up to a minute or even more in delay time prior to the show even starting on your end, even tho it already started minutes ago from the source...then that also plays fun and games for when it's time to exit out of the feed so your next show scheduled to start at the top of the hour is pushed back cuz the previous ended late due to net lag times.

I been doing this stuff since internet streaming was possible and there is no way a string of affiliates are going to hit on time, every time and in an accurate fashion. This is not satellite delivery or microwave linking, its relaying on the web and the web inherently has delay when it comes to anything sent to or from across it.

Don't believe me? Well then do a simple test yourself off your own net stream by connecting to it a number of times while leaving each previous player connected and running, and listen in awe at how much lag time there is between the first player and the last one.

The very reason why I suggested our LW network not dive right into a single source distributing programing across the web but to rely on FTP distribution so stations can place programs without having to bounce the daily program schedule around to compensate for the lag time.

RFB

KSS does put a "touch tone" at the begining and end of the local avail time.

Zara 1.6 and newer is supposed to be able to use those tones to switch the "satellite" feed in and out. In that way you could cut away from the KSS feed during the local avail time and feed another source to air.

I've not tried that as I'm using the older version Zara 1.44.

But as far as start timing, I keep my PC clock set daily by NIST and KSS seems to always start on time. As such, Zara automation is close enough to start the KSS show on time. And, if I'm a few seconds early or KSS a few seconds late, there's always a music bed so no dead air.