Jazz for the Asking Blog

I suppose I should have posted this long ago, but I have not done a radio show in a long time.  Things just seemed to get in the way, plus a general lack of local interest, lead to the demise of the radio show on WGHQ.

Since there was no support from the ownership, which is not necessarily their fault, I felt it was too difficult to continue on as a single person entity.  The radio station ownership is leaning toward a news/talk format for that radio station and I felt that a Jazz show on a low rated AM station who’s focus is a mostly satellite syndicated programming was not a good fit.  Perhaps there is some other outlet for this music in the Hudson Valley, or perhaps there is no great local interest.

In either case, I will keep the Jazz music store open, as it seems to be quite popular, and I will occasionally post to the blog.

Unfortunately, I will not be able to do the show this weekend.  I was going to try and pre-record something, but time has gotten away from me.  Jazz for the Asking will be back on the air on April 14th.

As you may not know, this show is a work in progress. I have been changing some of the formatics trying to give the best presentation. I also had some liners and legal ID’s cut by our top notch production guy, Dan. Dan works the night shift on K-104 (WSPK, Poughkeepsie) under the monicer “Dee Knight.”

I have also ripped all of the music into my lap top computer, so I can set up play lists ahead of time, and avoid the unfortunate “opps, I played the wrong cut” episodes that seem to frequent the show.

I am also trying to figure out a way to stream, but that may be something that gets put off until I have made some money off of this, after all, I don’t want to go in the hole for a Jazz show on an AM radio station, at least if I can help it.

In the mean time, here is a rather blurry picture of the WGHQ studio. Notice the almost complete lack of technology. There is one really old Dell computer in the corner, which I think is a Pentium II. It is in completely the wrong location to do anything with on the air. To the left of the console are three cart machines. That’s right, CART MACHINES! Hopefully, all that will change soon, as we are aiming to take over the station on April 1st. I don’t know if that is a good omen or a bad one.

I am looking forward to tomorrow’s show!