The Year Is Almost Done...

As I'm typing this there are great things going on in Rando Radio world! We have been moving along with programming, live remote webcasts, further incorporation of the U-Stream live video tool and music music music!!!!

Even though the world is going through major conniptions right now, we are keeping the faith and expanding our capabilities in order that you the listener can enjoy more of the Rando Radio experience. The free-form format is not dead and will not die on our watch.

When you visit our web page and go to the section named "The Vault", you can get sample shows and their respective playlists to listen to when you want to. You can interact with us by going to the "DJ Pages" area. You can join us and help us financially to keep this commercial free music thing going. But there is something else you can do to help...

As you may be aware, internet webcasters have to pay royalties to music companies at a rate disproportionately higher than satellite broadcasters (and lots more than regular AM and FM stations that pay next to nothing). We are also subject to a series of arcane regulations written by dumb-spit politicians and signed off on by President William Jefferson Zipper. This low point in legislation is known as the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998. While it is not as oppressive as the Patriot Act and and a little less offensive than FISA (supported wrongly by a man whose name is similar to Bark At Yo Mama) it negatively impacts all internet music entities large and small.

Basically, it was drawn up by a bunch of boneheads who were made to fear the phenomenon known as Digital Audio Tape. If any of those dopes could have seen what was really coming down the pike they could have encouraged Al Gore not to invent the internet.

All we really want is a royalty structure similar to what satellite radio pays; after all we believe in performers and composers getting their just recompense. Congress revisits this "Internet Radio Equality Act" every now and then- it is one of the few things Congress could pass that wouldn't kill anyone. At your convenience please rattle your Congress-Critters' cages every now and again. Now is a really good time to do this as all the "big-money" people are heading for the hills.

There you have it. My show has mutated yet again with my lifestyle being re-arranged by a new day gig... getting up at 5 AM and up before the sun to drive kids to school, and finally getting to do voice auditions in the time between shifts. There is voice work out there and I will continue plugging away at it. Have a happy and safe New Year!

Peace be with you,
Glenn Carella

Currently scheduled on Saturday afternoons from 1:00 PM until 3:00 PM Eastern Standard time, UTC 1800 to 2000 for you folks on other parts of the planet!!