It was the Spring of 2005 and I realized a long standing goal to be on the radio. I remember as a kid listening to Jim Elliott, Don Geronimo and Dan Steele and other DJ’s on WPGC thinking that was the coolest thing ever. In 6th grade I went on a field trip to the University Of Maryland and took a tour of the college TV and radio stations, and I was walking on cloud 9. While others in my class were learning and acting on the tv set doing some fictional tv show, I was 1 of 3 kids that was in the radio station. ( We toured both, but had our choice of which to do hands on.)
I was in the studio and I saw how to play music and commercials through cart machines and spinning actual records. I got to go on air and talk up the KC and The Sunshine Band song Get Down Tonight… yeah, I’m showing my age. From that point I was hooked. I was known to talk up songs on the radio and get on peoples nerves..
Fast forward to 2005 and realizing the dream that had become Cross Driven Radio. I was on the air every week and doing the show live from the studio to a small, but very devoted audience. Thursday afternoons haven’t been the same since. I started this blog to post playlists and to further promote the show. I soon graduated to Friday nights, did some voice tracking for a station in Reno Nevada. For a while I was on the air in DC and Reno at the same time.
I am shutting it down for multiple reasons, the main one being that it just isn’t fun anymore. While I have great support from some record labels like Nightmare and Ulterium, and radio promoters like Seth Holloway, podcasting music is not an easy job. You have to find music, negotiate clearances,report playlists, in addition to finding the time in a busy life to record and produce the show. As a music podcaster, you almost never get any positive feedback outside of close friends because the music doesn’t build dialogue in the same way as a talk show.
I had thought about changing up the format or doing things a different way, but I think it is right to just end it. I am a card carrying adult ADHD member, and one thing someone with ADHD almost never does is complete something they started. At least 3 or 4 times during the run I was making commitments to change the show, podcast regularly, or whatever. I really did that with the best of intentions. I saw through looking at the stats of the show that listeners didn’t like that too much as in a span of 3 months nearly 2/3′s of the audience jumped ship and I started getting bad reviews and negative feedback via email. I know you can’t please everyone, but when something isn’t fun, and the feedback isn’t good its just time to call it a day.
I had alot of fun, met some great people, did some great interviews (at least I think so), and introduced the world to some amazing artists that otherwise would not have gotten airplay , or podcast airplay.
If you are a subscriber to the feed, I will be occasionally putting out shows, but the days of producing on a regular schedule are done.
Thanks again for your support over the years and we will see you again some day.
GODSPEED!
