Morning Drive
Posted on June 27, 2012
There is a little known reason why KDX part 15 radio station does not start broadcasting until 10 in the morning. It does not mean that the DJ is sleeping late.
There is a little known reason why KDX part 15 radio station does not start broadcasting until 10 in the morning. It does not mean that the DJ is sleeping late.
The reason KDX is silent in the early hours is for the peace, tranquility and refreshment of natural silence, following the great restoration of a good night’s sleep.
But the story really begins the night before. We become so ladened and weighed down by the many experiences,thoughts and worries accumulated throughout the day, that we crumble into the “I give up” fetal position of sound asleep, where dreams get busy and rearrange the brain furniture so that we can awake in reset mode, fresh again, ready for reality.
But there’s an ugly trap waiting and cajoling at us named “drive time radio” and if we let it in, it immediately undoes the entire night of dreaming and instantly fills our head with all the chatter and bother that took us down the night before. By 10 AM we would willingly go into foreclosure, leave the kids off with child protective services, release the pets, and abandon the career if only we could take a long, long nap.
Drive time radio is short for drive-me-crazy radio, or, drive-by radio as in drive-by shooting.
Have no part of it. Refuse. Write your representative. Put a stop to it.
If you must transmit in the early hours, play long recordings of the forest or perhaps a gentle brook bubbling just slightly. Dead carrier is good.
One last thing. Disconnect the phone. Make people hang on to their problems until a decent hour.
