Mastering the kraft

There is an art if you will, of assembling content for an online as well as a over the air radio station. Then there is the art of delivering that content. It’s not the easy task that many can’t or wont even try. The profession will burn one out quickly, especially if your wearing all the hats, from the manager, program director, human resources manager, news director and then on air person. It makes for 13 hour days even on easy days. Then in my case finding time to fly, go on tows and do some wrenching on my equipment, it again makes for very long days and not much overnight sleep. Then there is finding time to at least shovel some sort of food in my mouth, going to the latrine, and do domestic chores. Hell I rinse my shorts in the sink, as there’s hardly any time to go do laundry.

Once you get past that its climb inside your radio every night into early morning, catching a few hours of sleep between 09:00 to noon, then doing it all over again, with the only time out is going to Church. Even after Church I’m back on the job getting things to do radio again overnight.

Some guy on our Livestream page was commenting about cases of dead air. Hey if I had the leggy female in the studio co-anchoring the show, perhaps when I got a tow call, my main bread and butter , there wouldn’t be dead air, but when Smokey or County Mounty calls my truck is in motion. A few times of denial of service or not responding customers and law enforcement start calling other tow jockeys . Like Beth Ann of CsC Talk Radio says and I have heard this for years upon years, if your not part of the solution don’t bitch about the problem.

When it comes to radio the Live , real LIVE personality is near a lost thing. Although many personalities of this craft, have went the way of Pod Casts, and that’s not bad, in fact that’s what we did, but our webcasts are frequently LIVE truly LIVE , not recorded affairs. Thus there’s bound to be mistakes occasionally and yes that dreaded thing in radio , DEAD AIR.

Why the leggy ladies in the studio? Stern did it with Robin Quivers, we decided to do it up Hazzard County/HeeHaw style, but with the same southern kountry grit.

Some independent stations do a bunch of voice tracking or farming programming. We are not any different, but we only do two voice network things here on HazzardAyre, and the rest of our channels on Livestream. NPR news, and CsC Talk Radio. the rest we do live 24/7/365. Plus there’s the over the air programming we do that is not on Livestream.

So to all the detractors and complainers, I say if you think you can do what I do better, with all the tasks I need to do daily, your more than welcome to apply to us for a career opportunity. Otherwise shut the heck up.

TTYLY

 

Quote of the Day:
If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse.
--Anonymous

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Touchy subject and how radio pays

All the way from Hazzard Idaho I’m already getting calls. Seems as though the radio ads running on Maximum Overdrive Radio is already netting calls from all parts. That’s the 7th call I’ve gotten. Between the radio ads and the yelp ad that’s free by the way, we are knocking em down, just shows what a GOOD radio ad effort gets you.

Of course I know that not everybody takes the risks we do.

Example, wrote a piece and emailed it to Beth Ann at CSC Talk Radio concerning the FCC air(land) Grab. Few radio talk shows will address this as it bites at the very heels that makes them a living. No don’t yap about the big conglomerate radio station organizations, no don’t do that, but we will. We here at all parts of HazzardAyre Radio are not governed by stock holders and fussy advertisers, only people my staff needs to fuss with is the members of a military aviator / trucker/gear head / biker club. Past that it’s a pretty much a free for all.

BTW the only radio stations in Idaho, Wyoming and Utah airing Beth Ann’s show CsC Talk Radio is ours, maybe she ought to jump in and do a suggested topic, from one of those who feeds her,

Stay tuned CsC Talk Radio is coming up at the top of the hour.

TTYLY

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
--Dr. E. Land

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Knytes Scroll #9 FCC Land Grab

Beth Ann on CSC Talk Radio was on a subject of the EPA land grab and taking away water rights. This is the fear we here every day, somebody taking away our rights to be individuals and caring for our families. So with that in mind, let’s explore another bunch of land grabs, more on the realm of air grabs.

Back in 2005 Under President Bush by the way, got the FCC to start sniffing around to get more radio spectrum, to enable our local police and emergency first responders better communications. Okay fine on its face, but then came the promise of a Federally funded and supported free fast bandwidth Internet of course monitored closely by the Feds. It was under the great Patriot Act. then a few enterprising zealots at Verizon and A.T.&.T. wanted more spectrum for cell phone communications. That fracas kicked the idea of the free internet project for rural America in the head but that dang Cell phone thing pushed some buttons. So the FCC that is an agency that is really off step and out of touch and so damn political that it stinks, started telling TV stations we just have to go digital. Killing analog TV signals. Now everyone had to go out and buy NEW digital capable TV’s, the only protection was if you had satellite or cable as most of the set top boxes had built in digital to analog converters in them. Or at least they did for a time. Some area LPTV stations with analog capabilities were able to broadcast into areas where people that had no ability to just run out and buy new digital TV’s. The analog stations lived, but short lives. Then came a new idea, lets downsize the FCC, in some of our minds this was a great idea, Uncle Obama was off our shoulders. Not so fast there Bucko, now the idea is to migrate AM stations, many who serve small rural towns and farm areas into a digital system, and hand off the AM band as you and I know it to the FM’s, many of which do not live or work, or give a care of the areas they are snuffing out. Two years ago the FCC opened up a very narrow filing window for low power FM’s to get Construction permits and licenses. This was a great idea, until you started seeing the favoritism of the FCC to grant licenses to minority, religious and native American applicants. More over to grant licenses to schools, and universities. If you were anyone or a group just slightly out of that perimeter you were just SOL, and Heavens sake if you were a group of military aviators fighting range fires saving some celebrities homes in Sun Valley Idaho, and couldn’t file to be able to get a filing extension. Nope, no way. Now there’s the problem of the downsizing and closing of FCC field offices across the nation, and concentrate efforts and resources in BIG metro areas. Forget rural areas, forget the fact that many of these pirate stations do a better job than the big radio companies like Cumulus and IHeart. IHeart is a fancy name for what was known as Clear Channel, which owns the Premier Radio network that among others rebroadcasts such shows as Rush Limbaugh and Coast to Coast AM. Now I can see some problems, pirates will be targeted by the so called LEGAL stations, and reported, fined and most will shut down for a time. But here’s the problem, most of those fully LEGAL licensed stations wont hesitate for one moment of upping power not legally, for over powering the air waves and fringing on each other. If Beth Ann and CSC Talk Radio wants to do a show this would be a subject I’d love to comment on and most likely affect those very stations that carry her show over the air. Some of us like HazzardAyre and others got lucky and by the very thinnest of our pubic hairs got legal , but what about the many low watt stations that can’t get licenses because of the restrictions that are levied on them by these big conglomerate radio broadcasting companies, but still deliver local news and information that the bigger well deep pocketed station groups don’t care about? Beth Ann and CSC Talk Radio needs to jump on this topic.

Okay, I’m still under the weather health wise so no HazzardAyre or anything on tonight but I will give it my best to be on Thursday morning. If your wondering, the only way we can get a signal up is at night when the bandwidth is better. Hey its rural America and a tiny cable internet company called ALLWest that has our nuts in a vise. However there are changes coming with the move of the studio into the Wells Fargo building and CenturyLink to give us 1gig, air time.

This is a factor of our times, the entire nation for two decades has had our freedom in a ball and chain. There is a solution that solution has this flag on it>unlike it should be like this> in my opinion, if there’s open signal space in rural America aka free air space, that is not on the open radar of the FCC why shouldn’t someone that wants to go legal not be able to do so?

More on Thursdays show, heard on www.livestream.com/hazzardayre BTW still looking for someone to do our formal website up, still looking.

TTYLY

 

Quote of the Day:
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
--“Mahatma” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Romans 15:5-6“May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Every time I try to get out they pull me back in

HazzardAyre is going through a bunch of changes. With equipment uprating and all so there will be off times that HazzardAyre Radio will not run as usual. I’ve had to scale back to weekends for doing radio and do the rest of my vocational chores the rest of the week.

If your born into or were around things Dukes and of Hazzard County it gets into your blood. Not so much the TV show, but the lifestyle of which was its back ground. As such I’m sliding back, in the words from a GodFather movie, every time I try to get out they pull me back in. If it was up to me I’d get out of it or at least distance myself, but there’s 99,000.99 members of our organization that said stay along the Hazzard highway so, it is so it will be.

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
So long as you rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll have Paul's support.
--Anonymous

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Time to move on and go forward

In every life even those in media there comes a time when one needs to look in a mirror, and draw the conclusion that the constant back biting , regional fighting and creative disenchantment is no longer worth the personal stress and distancing is required.

This was one of the things I and some members of what was the Hazzard County Knytes faced in 2008, when the decision was made to go on two concepts, one being what the Knytes started as, as being an over the road big truck organization and the idea of a custom/tricked out commercial truck, old skool lifestyle truckers organization. At the time the decision was made to rename the Hazzard County Knytes into two organizations, The Rode Knytes Association as well as the Knytes-of-Anarchy. While It was great in being part of the Hazzard /Dukes community and all, since the shut off of the series in 1985, and except for the friendship of both Ben Jones(Cooter) and wife Alma, much of the Hazzard County community has ignored and rarely contributes in any way, even acknowledging that this organization out west, some of the most loyal fans of that show even exists. As such, HazzardAyre will continue as the radio source of that Hazzard County community, but the blog, and my efforts will be as going forth being the head of the Rode Knytes Association, as well as Regional Commander of the AyreWolvez Association. More over much more time will be spent on things Knytes-of-Anarchy than that of things Hazzard County/Dukes-of-Hazzard.

I have always said , Hazzard County is not just a place on Earth but a place in the heart, and there as for me it will remain, however the lack of acknowledgement from Tracey Duke, Ben and Alma, the duplication allowed by both Ben and Alma for another Hazzard County Garage and all, makes it to where, myself and the 100,000 members nationwide needs to step back and go on our own in and on our own path, and not so much things Dukes.

As such, you’ll find my writings at www.knytesscroll.blogspot.com and my radio show on www.livestream.com/highwayhookerradio as well as on www.livestream.com/samcroradio , and little on HazzardAyre.

Much of the cast of the Dukes have moved on to other projects and roles, likewise the supporting organization that put the Dukes back on CMT has to now back away and let the Dukes and all succeed or fail on their own rather than with our support.

Stay Tuned.

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero

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fROM dUST tO dAWN

I wonder sometimes if the people who rent apartments across from me in the Washakta Apartments, that there’s a hungry wolf watching over them from a second story office apartment complex doing all nyte radio? If they did would they cover their windows on the west side more or the meth addict women over there would open them up more to show what few attributes they have? Does make one wonder don’t it?

Alrighty then. There’s a tale to tell here so bare it with me, oh please bare it. Back when through many events and culminating with the death of my Dad, in 1978, I had come home on the first family furlough that I got from the UCSMC and even though still with my head in the clouds training to fly, I knew that I would have no chance at steady flying in civilian life at least then and more over in Hazzard Idaho. So I opted to long haul trucking, at least I had that thought. However during the semi civilian transition from Marine life into civilian life, I was building hot rods like there was no tomorrow. Thing was I got tired of having my friend up at the I-80 Texaco drag the bone stripped hulks that I built into customs. Of course my moms COPD was worsening and that meant going from Active duty to Reserve duty was required to be able to be close to Hazzard in case Mom needed me for something. During this time a hot rod pal in Twin Falls Idaho who ran Valley Towing and Radiator the best place to take a leak, out on south Park street, there had a slightly aged 75 Chevy 1 ton with a Holmes 500 on back. Then came that early morning that I saw her, in here dawn breaking splendor. White vapor from her stacks, chicken lights all a glow, she took my breath away. So I talked to Dave he agreed to sell her, as he was buying a first edition wheel lift, Dodge, so on April 15th 1978 that truck came home with me to Hazzard. $5,000.00 out of my Moms savings, another $3,000.00 from my Marine pay and she lived in Hazzard. I had several names for my starting company, but one early morning walking home from the mail box up that 1/4 mile of that dirt road I started thumbing through that months edition of the original Overdrive Magazine that had a wrecker of the month in it, in that issue, was a pearl white 75 Peterbilt rig called the Happy Hooker. Hooker being trucker slang for tow truck. Of course this was a idea moment, but it is not the entire story. A real tow brother in Boise Tommy Thompson of TNT Towing there had some T shirts done up stressing on the idea his rigs could tow anything, in so doing he came up with a tag slogan line that read our Hookers can Handle anything. Then came the day when fetching a mini van on I-84 at MP 162, this freight hauler said over the CB there’s a hooker on the side of the road. The terms and all got my wheels in my head spinning. So I scratched out the name D.K. (Diesel Kid-my then cb handle) Towing and renamed the company Highway Hooker Toewing mis-spelling tow as toew on purpose. That ran until the mid 80’s until I found Hazzard County. Now with much of the Hazzard thing starting to wean out of me the decision to rework everything back to much of what we started with began to emerge from the ashes, like a rising Phoenix and so Highway Hooker Toewing is going to be the company name from hence forth. Yes all things Hazzard is retained, through Hazzard County Choppers my Harley shop, and of course Dixie Diesel Shop, but there’s been too much fighting between the right and left coasts of thing Hazzard Garage and all that I tearfully relinquish and retreat and work things back to what I started, not some distant TV show.

I pulled back from this rename back in 2005 when a small tiny town 65 miles north of Evanston’s Police chief and all made such a fuss over the company name. Even though one word with two meanings ours again being trucker slang for tow truck, was misunderstood, and even though the towns two biggest employers being OTR truck stops, with cb’s chattering all the time, the tiny 504 population of only 5 being none LDS and the rest being all LDS , said not in our town. With everything that happened then I should have sued the city government over all of that, but hey let things be what they are and forgive. But LDS or not , Highway Hooker Toewing will regain its prominence again.

Okay then, if your going to name a company that just yearns to lean towards the word Hooker and its second meaning why not play on that other meaning? So repaint the trucks , and go bazooka over the two meanings and blend them together. My first computer on then Win95 Hotmail email address and still is hwyhooker@hotmail.com , Okay then moving on.

Highway Hooker Toewing is going to be my attempt to get back to my toew roots. As such there’s our radio show that I started as part of the then KTOW our stations original legal call letters, called Highway Hooker Radio heard on www.livestream.com/highwayhookerradio . The legend continues.

Quote of the Day:
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
--Jeffrey Bernard

Zephaniah 3:17“The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Here’s one that will stump Google search

It must be said that having a sandwich will cure just about anything. Two pieces of Cheese ham Oscar Meyer style between two Wonder Bread slices of bread and a heaping amount of Mayonnaise will cure the hungers. Goes to show Oscar Meyer meats will last several months in the fridgideezer and not mold. Now dig this, today our complex manager and one of the so called corporate heads were here. Of course I complimented our complex manger so much that I was waiting for the violins and cellos to start playing. Of course this corporate head got into a discussion on church things, of whether God and Jesus are two separate entities or one. Of course I know there is a separation between the two, as I have seen all three of the God Head. But I kept trying to explain to this little guy from the Wentworth's mothership that all of what was in the bible was added onto by the Book Of Mormon. Yet I had trouble at that point navigating between the need to just visit with Janet, and making it look and seam that I was there on business. Yea I know Janet is all hitched up and all, however I can just about explore different subjects with her thinking from a woman’s point of view when I’m writing things to use on air or here in HazzardAyre.

So then came up here to the Eagle’s Nest, and sat in the control room here, and tried to get right the exact color of taupe colored nylon stockings, so decided to try to locate a way to make that color on my bitmap color tray. Know what, no matter how I tried I never could get that mixed just right. There must be a way to make taupe color>in my bitmap color tray, but ain’t quite yet figured it out. Someone ought to create a new computer game, stump Google search. Cuzz I got many of questions that can stump Google Search, like entering the term Pussy Pink ain’t there, enter the term vagina color not there. Reason I bring that up? Several years ago I went to a body and paint supply store in Pocatello, to match that color as I wanted to paint LexiBelle part that color. The only way we really matched that, and it took some doing, but the only way to match that exact color was to get a gal I knew to go over there, get aroused and show her vagina to the clerk there at the body and paint store so she could mix the exact color. Reason I’m going there? The new paint color of our trucks will be Taupe and Pussy pink, as we transition from Cooter’s A1 to Highway Hooker Toewing. Now then there is the subject of that Sunday Church handshake. It does not matter what denomination you go to there’s always some church person, mostly male there to shake your hands, I always wonder what goes through his mind, does he secretly think, (“ howdy there fellow congregation member let me shake your hand, even though I just came out of the restroom after holding my shaft, or wiping my ass”) No wonder one of my XYL’s(Ex-Young Ladies”) had a mini bottle of germinator in one hand and a sterile cloth in the other.

Need to get that back on air, but thought I’d pass that along to you. Call in if you want to be on tonight’s edition of SAMCRO RADIO heard online at www.livestream.com/samcroradio .

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
While the price of freedom and security is high, it is never too high!
--George W. Bush
(I bet he never complains about taxes)

Ecclesiastes 11:5“As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.