Link to Delta Star Radio's LPFM Fund-raiser on Fundstarter

Please read more about my effort here:

http://fundstarter.com/campaign_pg.php?campid=240

I've been relegated to Internet-only for the past seven years. I hope you will financially support my effort to finally establish an on-air presence in the local area. Content will continue to be streamed for Internet listeners.

Delta Star Radio waw founded on April 25, 2001, and has been active ever since. Prior to my Internet radio activities, I worked in positions including on-air, radio advertising sales, station management, and programming.

I fully support, and plan to offer, programming that is locally-originated and tailored to the local area.

Thank you for supporting better radio.

http://fundstarter.com/campaign_pg.php?campid=240

Delta Star Radio of Florida Inc., plans to seek LPFM

I am looking at every possibility of filing for a low power FM station (LPFM) license pending word that the FCC plans to open a new filing window sometime within the next six to twelve months.

My nonprofit, Delta Star Radio of Florida, Inc., was created back in April of 2001. I am proposing a line-up of local programming that does not depend on satellite feeds or network services as a primary format. The bulk of programming would originate from our studios in eastern Leon County, which is now used for our Internet-only service.

More details coming here on the blog.

A Positive Change at Big D Country

Dear Nashville: Enough of the four-letter words

I grew up listening to country music - I have always loved country and probably always will.

But lately, it seems that more of the songwriters and artists are including what we would call "four letter words" into what are otherwise good songs.

Is that really necessary?

This has been bothering me for a while. Especially this past week while hearing what is otherwise a great song - except they had to go and put the "d---" word in it. Didn't add to the song and made it one I don't want the kids to go around saying to their friends.

Effective today (July 22) I have decided on a more strict music policy. Not that every bar fight/beer drinking/you-know-the-list song will be banned, but...

There will be a "clean" country undertone to Big D Country. With the kids back around the studios, I realized that I was having to turn the monitors down.

By Monday, a good bit of the playlist will be different. There are plenty of positive country songs out there. I'm fine with real life, my-woman-left-me songs if it can be done without cursing and delving into lyrics that I don't want the kids singing.

I know that a lot of country artists have a relationship with Christ. Careers, ratings and managers don't always allow for every song to be "positive."

My personal confession: I used to work in, and listen to, Christian radio. Especially in the 1980s, contemporary Christian music was another genre I really enjoyed. Today's K-Love and rock/edgy praise and worship songs just don't really do anything for me. In the car, the choice becomes talk radio or K-Love. Given those choices, I've started taking my own mp3 player to listen to what I want.

Big D Country will be continuing playing country and classic country. You won't even notice a big change.

But as a Christian-owned station, there will be a positive change. You can hear the difference - because we want to make a difference!

Big D Country radio


(reposted from Alan's Big D Country blog)

Now THIS looks like a cool website!

I'm talking about the soon-to-be-launched "The Best Deal Yet.com."

This website is scheduled to launch roughly 34 days from today.

I'm pretty skeptical of a lot of websites these days, because anything offering a good deal is bound to have a "got'cha" somewhere in the fine print. I have not found anything to dislike so far about this site, with the offer of paying $25-$35 per hour for viewing ads, with those funs coming from the advertisers themselves.

Wanna check it out? Here's the link.

I Knew I Had to Make A Major Change...

Actually, last summer, when I knew the boys would be leaving my care on a full time basis. That's when I knew it was time to figure out what I needed to do next.

True, I did launch the morning show on Big D Country. Several months now into that launch, it's still too small in terms of audience to attract and keep advertisers.

A few weeks ago I began putting together my idea to finally get the ball rolling in the world of affiliate marketing. I mean, folks are making money doing this, or there would not be so many affiliate programs successfully operating now.

I've begun developing my first website around the area of clocks. I have been fascinated with clocks since I was very young.

You can catch a sneak peek at my new venture at Need a clock.com/The Clock Stop

Affiliate marketing idea # 1

As I continue along through the learning process of understanding affiliate marketing, I realized that the time is approaching to start putting ideas into action.

I also realized that I needed to expand beyond the radio station's website that lists all of the sp0nsors and advertisers, and build a more niche-oriented site for a specific product in order to really understand the business of affiliate marketing.

To me, one of the more time-consuming elements of getting started was just deciding on a domain name. And then, checking its availability.

I decided that I would try a niche site that is not based, or connected with radio. For a breath of fresh air, perhaps, and a look at a target that does not have to necessarily be generated through radio spots and liners.

Over the weekend, an idea was born. This morning I ended up searching for a suitable domain, and after a few tries, found one that worked.

The site is not on the Internet just yet, but I purchased the domain and hosting package today from HostGator. I have already
identified nine possible companies to work with as affiliate partners on this site.

More details coming as soon as the site is up and running. For those who are thinking about doing affiliate marketing, perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.

I'm learning from The Six Figure Program, by the way.

Next post: Why I knew I had to make some life changes.

Big D Country - Top 30 Chart

It was exciting to see that for the first time in a while, our broadcast was launched over 100 times on Thursday, June 9! The total count by day's end was 125!

Our programming is monitored for charting purposes by Radiowave and Concentus Media Group. I also take requests into account while preparing the chart.

You can see the current Big D Country Top 30 Country Chart here:

http://www.bigdcountry.com/id1.html