Looking to Start Your Own OTR Station?
We really live in an amazing time. In the time when Dragnet was considered “Must Hear Radio”, the act of putting together a radio station required a massive amount of resources. Even then, it took an immense team of people to produce thirty minute segment that would put you to sleep, or at least send you skittering to the toilet. These days, if you want to start your own radio station, you download some software, upload some files, then voila! you’re on the air. Well, the internet air. In a few years, it won’t make much difference. Traditional over the air broadcasting is on its way out. In twenty years, everything will be digital
That’s where UBroadcast comes into play. They are trying to position themselves as the “YouTube” of radio. In a nutshell, all you do is download a software package which allows you to customize your playlist, then you upload it to their servers. They take care of the rest with no fees involved. I’m guessing that they insert their own ads into your content which I think is well worth the bargin.
In any case, I’ll be writing more on this subject as I investigate the reality of producing a 24/7 Jezner station. If you can’t wait to find out what happens, I suggest you mosey on over to their site and give it a whirl yourself, then tell us about it. The link is below. Good luck and see you on the air, hotshot 
NOTE: Be advised that their homepage makes a major faux pas by playing music right away.
UBroadcast (new window)
This old time radio episode is an awesome. It has been retold over and over in a multitude of different incarnations. This version focuses on the famed game hunter, Sanger Rainsford. On a pleasure cruise down to South America, Sanger falls overhead in the Caribbean to wash up on a strange island. There he meets a Russia general who enjoys to hunt the most dangerous animal on the planet. Other people. Sanger is selected to as the prey whereby the hunter becomes the hunted in this awesome episode. A little side note, the actor who played Sanger Rainsford actually makes an appearance in the 1950’s classic “War of the Worlds” as an announcer wearing horned rimmed glasses. 
Okay … okay … I read the next question in your mind like a nefarious swami who hunted Lamont Cranston. What the darn heck is SPERVAC. Well, the answer should be obvious to anyone. I’m kidding, of course. I actually nominated the organization name for the acronym most “likely to be heckled by teenagers” award. I mean, just misplace the letter “m” in that title, and you might have a rather interesting group meeting.
It … Is … Cheesier … Than … You … Think. This is Arch Oboler, bringing you another in our series of stories of cheese. And once again, we caution you. These Light’s Out stories are definitely not for the discerning soul. So we tell you calmly and very sincerely, if you are cheesed out easily, turn off your radio now.
A missing lock. A missing taxi driver. A web of lies that only expands with each step that Johnny makes, and all the time, a killer just out of reach.
You’ll notice that if you look on the left hand sidebar, just underneath the Facebook link, you’ll find another link for the Jezner newsletter. Long time Jezner visitors will remember Ben - the guy responsible for all the Lord of the Ring episodes - is doing a marketing campaign for Jezner for his graduate class. The campaign includes the development of a newsletter which will feature stories and giveaways. I’ll let him do the explaining, but you can’t go wrong signing up for it. In any case, we are using a trusted third party application to store the data. The mailer takes care of all the heavy lifting for us and be assured that your address is safe. More news is coming down the pike. Stay tuned. Ben’s got a lot of great ideas.
You know something? I bet when Vincent Price met a beautiful starlet, he would say something along the lines of “you know I’m not a saint, but I play one on the radio”. And you know something, he would be the only person on the planet who could pull it off. And not just for starring in the radio show. Vincent Price reeks of coolness which is why he made for such a good villain. He’s the only person I know who could lie through his teeth to save his life, divert attention onto other suspects while flirting at the same time. He’s just too cool.
If you happened to live in Taft, California, then it sounds like you had quite a treat only a few weeks ago. Looks like Pine Mountain Community Players decided to reenact some old time radio episodes. According to the article, they acted out Who’s On First, Boston Blackie and the Fur Trade and the very first episode of Flash Gordon. I got to say, there are plenty of better episodes to portray. I’m not a big fan of either of them. Every time I listen to Boston Blackie I want to throttle the man because of his word-isms. Still, it sounds like it was really fun time. The writer of the article hopes the players will act out Mercury Theater’s War of the Worlds. If they do that, I’ll fly out of there and see them. If anyone happened to see this performance, drop a line. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
We interrupt this old time radio broadcast to comment on the passing of music icon, Michael Jackson. There’s going to be a lot of reflections in the next couple of days, so I thought I’d get mine out there before the story is fully saturated.