I'm also putting a new focus on the Teenage Dreams shows.  I've got a bunch that just need recording, including a follow-on to an early one, Dance Crazes.  This time, we're focusing on the early to mid 1960s, and I've found some interesting ones.  For example, did you know that one of the crazes was something called the Batusi, that arose from an improvised scene in the first episode of the classic Batman 1966 TV series?

It appears that there were new dance fads every few weeks back then, but we'll just be covering the most popular.

Unfortunately, we're not going to be streaming any more for copyright reasons.  I might restart the SDR server, but we'll see.

It's now 6:45 and it's been holding at 15 listeners amongst 4 countries:

I don't know what two countries these are..

As before, there will be 4 x 6 hour blocks of programming.

Artisan Radio as a broadcast venture will play all public domain material.  Roaring 20's (Jazz), Tin Pan Alley (1900-1930 popular music), Historical Classical (1920s and earlier), Early Detective Book Readings, Historical Vocal (1900-1930) and another hour TBD, probably OTR.

The broadcasts will go out over-the-air via a BETS-1 certified FM transmitter (still to be purchased, although the old Decade appears to be working again, not sure if it can be trusted though), streamed and also be available via the Artisan Radio SDR Server.

Thus, no copyright issues.

There will be a parallel stream for my own listening, from my own record collection, consisting of JukeBox Hits (1950s and 1950s Billboard charting and Bubbling Under songs), Lost Jukebox (obscure 1950s and 1960s music), If It Ain't Baroque (Baroque Classical recordings), Vintage Jazz (from the 1930s through the early 1950s), Divas and Divos (the greatest voices in Opera and Classical Music), and finally, our own produced show, Teenage Dreams.

That will be transmitted using the newly acquired ProCaster.  Because of copyright issues, and broadcasting issues (i.e., it's not BETS-1 certified, only RSS-210), the stream will not be readily available to anyone else, either via a stream or the SDR.  Actually, it may be, but it will be password protected so that only I can listen in.  I know that works with streaming, as I've experimented with IceCast, but not sure about the SDR (in which case I won't do it).

It would be nice to swap the two over-the-air transmitters, but unfortunately, Canada's rules do not allow RSS-210 transmitters to broadcast.  I've listened to the ProCaster and even without the built-in audio processing, the sound quality is good enough for what I want to do and listen with.  With the audio processing, I imagine it could be even better.

Just have to redo the station ID for the FM that runs at the top of the hour. All the other 8-10 second promos I made with Imagingthing are universal so good here too. They run 3 times an hour at 15, 30, 45 minutes.

There's some vintage jazz that falls into that category.  Most acoustical records, and a fair number of 1920s and 1930s electrical era records as well.  So I plan on doing some jazz at the very least.

The nice thing about classical music (nice in the public domain context at least) is that since most composers (except modernists) passed away quite a while ago, all their music is in the public domain.  That means that there are a large number of classical records from the early 1960s and the 1950s that sound great, and are free to use for any purpose in Canada.  So we'll be playing quite a bit of classical, opera and vocal in our programming.

The challenge is that many of the pieces are quite long, so don't fit nicely into predetermined programming slots.

I would like to do some drama works as well.  Book readings are an option, as is OTR.  However, there's a catch with OTR in Canada.  Unlike the U.S., where copyright had to be registered with the Library of Congress for quite a while (and most OTR wasn't), in Canada, copyright was automatically assigned once the work is created.  Typically, for something like OTR it would be the scriptwriter.  The performance rights would be complicated, but since all the OTR I would be interested in were performed 1964 and prior, the performances would be in the public domain anyway.

So technically, OTR whose scriptwriters passed away in 1971 or prior should be in the public domain.  Of course, this would be for scripted shows only, such as The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, etc.

A big issue, however, is that quite often, the scriptwriters are unknown.  There are some OTR sites that publish some information, and I've done some exercises in the past of going through and determining which episodes of some shows (on a very few shows) are in the public domain.  But it's a big pain.

Then there's the "Rule of the Shorter Term" in the Geneva convention.  It states that if a work goes out of copyright in its home country, then it goes out of copyright in all countries observing that rule.  Canada observes it.  But the CUSMA trade convention prevents it being used for the U.S.  If CUSMA goes away, as it is being threatened, then OTR (most of it, scripted anyway) in the public domain in the U.S. would automatically be in the public domain in Canada.

Finally, we still plan on having 4 x 6 hour blocks of programming.  Some slots, like vintage jazz, will be randomized playlists, while others will be rotation files with predetermined music and/or shows.

This time, however, it will be done a bit differently.  I've mentioned that I've been experimenting with Forum software, phpBB to be precise.  This time around, I will be using that software to implement the Blog.

There are a number of advantages to this.  One is that I can manipulate permissions to be the only one who posts, while letting others reply to those posts if they desire (while also providing a moderation mechanism).  Another is that it provides an easy mechanism to separate Blog posts into various topics.

I was thinking of starting up a parallel Forum to this one, focusing on Canadian content only, but have decided against it.  I have no desire to compete with Part15.org, but rather to complement it, and the Blog is the best way to do that.

There are plenty of Canadian-only considerations and interests that may not be of interest here.  So I believe there is room for both.