Participant Radio, Creative Freedom and the potential it represents....

[Stave]

Hello all,

I think Participant Radio has a great potential to produce something i think commercial entertainment is lacking, Creative Freedom, The ability to focus on the listeners only, the people who count. I believe this is the future of entertainment, a great example why this is the future is what the comedian Tom Green is achieving, he has built a 100% Independent TV studio in his house broadcasting directly to his website, www.tomgreen.com, no sponsors to please, no executives to please. Just him and his fans paying a small subscription fee a month to cover all costs so he is able to what he wants to only please the people who count, his Fans, in radio's case our listeners.

I think we should work on the potential for it to be like this, no one to tell us what to do that doesn’t really care about the content, who only care about ratings and how many people see their adverts. Or Network Executives who only care about ratings and how much money it’s bringing in. Something Commercial TV and Radio Suffers from, all ideas are picked dry from every angle to please everyone and anyone. The fact is they should be focusing on their key market pleasing them, the people who watch/listen. If someone doesn’t like it they can watch/listen to something else. In return will allow more independent content to enter the spotlight, breaking away from the way commercial Radio Stations work who only play Bands that have received a record label, and at the end of the day there are loads of extremely talented people that don’t have any record labels that NEED outlets to get heard to get the treatment they deserve.

This is also a reason why i support more radio stations, allows the stations to specialise on a certain audience instead of attempting to please and attract everyone and anyone, as there is no need to get big ratings, just provide some awesome entertainment to the people who care, to cater for peoples interests in a way that everyone can enjoy, instead of every genre jam-packed together loosing the true passion that all music fans feel for the music they love.

I believe we should be following this example realising the true potential of what we have here working on our own terms with Rules the audience of that particular radio station fully agree with, always listening to their input and feedback. Pleasing them instead of compacting all genre's into one compressed mess attempting to please everyone at once. Which if you think about it, if everyone is different it’s a very hard thing to do, what you get out in return is highly filtered, watered down entertainment that doesn’t realise the true potential of each genre of entertainment individually.

And just to clarify no I’m not saying we should allow all explicit content to stupid levels where its a free for all mess, we should obviously abide by the basic morals, no discrimination of any kind, nothing racist no talking down to anyone or anything sexual. What I do personally think tho is commercial radio has entered a stupid level of censorship to the point where no swear words can slip in any songs or anything, to the point where they are fined for doing so. In a way its another Genre of kinds, there is a group of people that think moderate explicit content at levels that is not racist and all of the unacceptable things, I’m sure everyone knows what i mean, its got like that on commercial TV already where the occasional word is acceptable. For the people that don’t like anything explicit that is also another audience that can be catered for.

That is the potential i think Participant radio represents and is what it should be.


Stave

 

[Sapeian]

I understand what you say,
And AHR Abides by the rules as set by 711 and MA have asked us to stay with in the confines of the EULA.

While AHR isnt out to please Executives etc.
But I dont understand fully what you are saying.

AHR doesnt allow obscene material etc.
Nor do we allow racist material etc.

However yes there are some songs that have the occasional swear word in them,
I cant ask our DJ's to go out and buy nothing but radio edits.
And in some cases sometimes a song will have a swearword in it to express themselves without being obscene.

As for Creative freedom, I welcome it for sure.

I think that if a DJ just goes on air, Talks a bit and plays some music.
Its not going to be as fund as a DJ who is being creative and well just Pumps it up.

It cause an electric atmosphere and everyone is happy.

This happend with the early days of AHR.
And any new station will experiance this.
I know that MSR's shows will be a hit for sure becuase Mindstar has the ability to Electrify the atmosphere when she is on air.

I am a little more laid back on air and i probably bore half my listners to death.

But I would give a little advice for any DJ of any radio station.

And that is they plan their shows carefully.
And put in as much variety as possible.
If they are going by one Genre then make it applicable yet fun for that Genre.
And just be happy and extatic on air.

It takes alot of energy but it can be done.

And I think DJ's can be very creative on air.

Which drags me to the point I want to make.

Why do you feel that this creativeness is diminished with the stations?

Unless I'm not understanding your point.
For which I am sorry.

Sap.

 

[Stave]

This is not aimed at any station here, not accusing anyone of anything, its just my general opinion on what i think is possible here.

*edit*
I think commercially on professional stations creativity is diminished, due to many rules that i think has gone too far in some aspects something we aint nessacarrly bound by here