Meet The New Press
Well, we're late.....this past Saturday was the inaugural broadcast of "Meet The New Press" - a new radio show that had its debut on WEMJ AM1490 from 2-4pm. In retrospect, we got so carried away with being ready for the show that we forgot to let you folks know about it!
Er, misteak(!) noted and will be corrected!
Three of us are behind this new show - Doug, myself, and Pat Hynes of AnkeBiting Pundits.com. The intent of the show is to combine the best of what is going on in the blogosphere, and what makes it work. In two hours, we are going to have topics of interest that come from blogs like from all over: politics, current events, guest hosts and inteviews and anything that callers want to talk about (and we do thank Alan, John, and the others for calling in!)
I'd love to say that the first show was a 10 - let's say that we have some room for improvement given some of the technical problems. We do appreciate your patience as the engineers of WEMJ continue to rebuild the studio for us, and we do thank them (A LOT!) for incorporating a lot of the suggestions that we have had over the last couple of weeks. Per normal, there are still gremlins in the system (patience to our guests for bearing with us as we tried to estastablish phone contact with them. However, we did notice, and appreciate, the staff of WEMJ for calling in more and more senior level engineers on their time off to come in and keep us on the air!
ALSO!
Podcasting will be coming to all three blogs (AnkleBitingPundits, GraniteGrok, and GilfordGrok) - we are digitally capturing the broadcast and will be chopping up the show into more manageable chunks over the next few weeks - I'll put up an announcement as we get closer.
During the week, we'll put up the topics for next Saturday - so take this as a request and let us know what YOU want to hear!
After the jump are a couple of pictures - again, more will be forthcoming over the next few weeks!
And for those that caught the show, we thank you. For those that we forgot to tell - we apologize! And for those that want to participate - leave comments here, send us email now or during the show, or call during the show: 603-527-1490!
-Skip
Here's Doug, smiling to belie the nervousness underneath the calm exterior.
And some more!
Meanwhile, while Doug and I have faces for radio, Pat shows why he's been on TV and we haven't.
Jarrod, our broadcast engineer watching over the dials, switches, and faders, and the guy you'll talk to if you call in!
And of course, NOW you can see what I meant that WEMJ is still rebuilding the studio for us - the lovely kitchen table (which actually worked out quite well) and the wiring behind me. From left going clockwise - Skip (with the grey hair), Pat (love the cap), and Doug (finally calmed down).
