A Morning Show On A New Platform
Written Oct. 16, 2009 by Sean Ross in Internet Radio + Social Networking with 2 Comments
Many people reading this know the hard way that it is genetically impossible to stop being a radio person just because you're not on the air at that moment or worse, not working.
So it should come as no surprise that John Lander, longtime morning host at WBMX (then-Mix 98.5) Boston and KKBQ (93Q) Houston is still doing a morning show . . . .on his Facebook page.
Looking at Lander's Facebook posts for the last three weeks, a handful are snapshots from his life, but there's also a lot of topical material and one-liners. And today, there's impossible trivia: "65% of women say theyhave to do this once per week, even though they don't want to."
I'm a big fan of John Lander as a morning man and a programmer. So I hope someone lets him do this on the radio again in the near future. But as we see smaller percentages of the audience using radio in the morning, it does make one wonder. If an increasing number of people are getting their services from the Internet -- news, sports, weather, entertainment news -- what would happen if the other rituals of the morning show could be codified into a few Tweets or Facebook postings?
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I have been off the air for 2 months, yet the 2000 people who follow me on Twitter and Facebook might never know it. I havent stopped doing a radio show either. Blog bits, stupid news, stories, photos, videos, asides - my online show hasnt changed, I'm just missing a microphone.
Check out Sonic Sedition (an Internet-only station http://www.sonicsedition.com/) on Twitter at SSRadioDJs. Mon.-Fri. during the day (PDT) they basically do a classic AM show with jokes & patter, response to Tweets they receive, occasional local references (L.A.), contests, etc.