radío flomm: coming soon, far from a radio near you

“Well, we paid for an­oth­er year of host­ing. Let’s do an­oth­er podcast.”
 

I didn’t re­al­ize there were a bunch of FLOM­MISTS hun­gry to do this, but over the past few months they came out of the wood­work and RADíO FLoMM is the result.
 

RADíO FLoMM

is our SEC­OND pod­cast and it pre­mieres NEXT WEEK (al­ready??)

on Oc­to­ber SEC­OND –

and it’s based on an­oth­er lit­tle thing I’ve been a fan of my whole life: 

RA­DIO.

Be­cause the pic­tures are better.
 

Used to lis­ten to al­most any­thing I could pick up from San Fran­cis­co in the 1970s – from DR. DON­ALD D. ROSE on THE BIG 610 KFRC, top 40 on 1260 KYA (oth­er side of the dial) all the way to the nut­ty morn­ing an­tics of FRANK & MIKE on KNBR 68.

Got a tour of a few sta­tions in SF when I was a kid – and this con­tin­ued through school: When on va­ca­tion, used to ask for tours of ra­dio and tee vee com­plex­es in small towns by say­ing, “I’m a broad­cast­ing stu­dent from Cal­i­for­nia, can I get a tour?”

(It also worked with news­pa­pers: “I’m a jour­nal­ism stu­dent from Cal­i­for­nia, can I get a tour?”)

Odd­ly enough, my best friend in high school went into broad­cast­ing and I didn’t. And it was at the lo­cal NPR sta­tion that we swiped reel copies of the Star Wars ra­dio dra­ma, which I still think is AWE­SOME. It was SKY­HOOK, not ROGUE ONE. And Per­ry King was a far bet­ter Solo than Ehren­re­ich. Deal. 

So I’m only get­ting into broad­cast­ing now. And it’s not ac­tu­al broad­cast­ing, or is it?
 

I also have a large col­lec­tion of Old Time Ra­dio (OTR) pro­grams – a pile of cas­settes, reels, records and a box of video tapes. 

I used to copy OTR pro­gram­ming onto 8 hour VHS tapes and ‘stream’ to my col­lec­tion of vin­tage con­sole ra­dios. I had some­where around 300 hours of vin­tage stuff I’d lis­ten to on ac­tu­al old ra­dios – dubbed with sta­tion IDs and breaks – while I’d free­lance from home. Be­fore iTunes or stream­ing anything.

My dad used to love to drop by and lis­ten to vin­tage ra­dio on our Arm­strong FM re­ceiv­er. I’d program/play Big Band and WWII broadcasts.

Some of my col­lec­tion will be part of RADíO FLoMM, de­pend­ing on how far I get thru all this old me­dia. I get to play pro­duc­er, a bit of on air tal­ent, AND en­gi­neer this time out. The rest is up to our FLOM­MISTS, lo­cal­ly and worldwide.
 

THIS is our TRAILER:

 

Head­ing up this project, with my­self, is De­von Parks-Clouti­er with theme músik by Chelsea Davis and con­tri­bu­tions by flom­mists Milk Sur­face, Ja­son Spyres, Au­drey Daggett (be­low), I Just Cab­ri­na, Ju­lia Al­le­gret­ti, Gar­mar Markar­i­an, Bryan Mendez, John Michael Cre­mer, Mars, Jes, Court­ney M. Wilkins, Poke­mon Mas­ter Dar­ius For­rest … and those are just the FLOM­MISTS we have record­ings from as I type this.
 

AND THERE’S HOMEWORK.

Yeah. So why not? 

EM­PIRE of the AIR: The Men Who Made Ra­dio (1992) is a güd fit here. It’s a HIS­TO­RY of RA­DIO ala KEN BURNS – with no punch­es pulled. It’s also a book, it’s free with Ama­zon Prime (see Episode 7). EM­PIRE is a great set up for wat we’re about to at­tempt here.

THO
I kno how STU­DENTS go RUN­NING AND SCREAM­ING the op­po­site di­rec­tion when I say ‘HOME­WORK.’ You DON’T HAVE TO DO YOUR HOME­WORK in or­der to lis­ten to our podcast.

JUST SHOW UP, copy off your neigh­bor, you’ll still get credit.
 

OUR PLAN
for RADíO FLoMM is to have some­thing nü on air as pod­cast EVERY TUES­DAY for NINE WEEKS (our sea­son) at 12:05 AM pa­cif­ic day­light time – with episodes post­ed ear­li­er for our PA­TRONS.

Ex­per­i­men­tal, in­ter­views, com­e­dy, músik, and for our first episode: STATIC.

SO
TUNE in NEXT WEEK. We had fun glu­ing pieces of Mar­coni to everything!

 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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