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Is GSP participating?
Posted:
Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:05 pmby Mire
LoudCity will be participating in a Day of Silence on Tuesday, June 26th along with the SaveNetRadio coalition and Internet radio stations throughout the U.S.
On June 26th, all listeners tuning in from the LoudCity website will be diverted to a temporary Day of Silence stream. This station will loop a PSA explaining to listeners what is happening along with silence (either static or a test tone). This is a strong statement that we hope will give us that final push of support we need for a resolution.
We encourage everyone to take similar action with their streams. Listeners tuning in from custom launch pages and those that have a stream bookmarked in a player will not be diverted to the Day of Silence stream. So, it's up to you to be on board with this effort. It's much stronger having everyone involved.
Here's more info on the game plan -
[url]http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/ … ndex.shtml[/url]
Thanks!
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:48 pmby Gimpeline
It will be a looooog tuesday without radio, but if it is the only way to make those F@&%!! listen..
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:51 pmby Tarryk
While I can't say anything 100% for sure, it's looking like we will not.
There's two major reasons for this:
1. We'd be punishing GSP listeners by doing this, and they're the ones we should be praising.
2. It seems a bit backwards. Silencing internet radio for the sake of saving internet radio is like filling your gas tank to protest oil-based energies.
What we might do is "observe" the day by playing the PSA and whatnot, but we won't be going silent.
That is, of course, unless one of the DJ's scheduled that day wishes to observe it fully and spend their slotted show simply looping the PSA. While I don't see anything being achieved by that, it's not breaking any regulations so they may do so if they choose. Personally, I think it would be much wiser for a DJ to remain active and simply discuss it and make people aware of the situation, between songs and such.
Posted:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:39 pmby Negs
Tarryk wrote:
What we might do is "observe" the day by playing the PSA and whatnot, but we won't be going silent.
That is, of course, unless one of the DJ's scheduled that day wishes to observe it fully and spend their slotted show simply looping the PSA. While I don't see anything being achieved by that, it's not breaking any regulations so they may do so if they choose. Personally, I think it would be much wiser for a DJ to remain active and simply discuss it and make people aware of the situation, between songs and such.
I'd tend to agree. The logic that "they'll be forcing us off the air ... so lets protest with a day of silence" kinda does seem backwards to me.
Posted:
Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:34 amby ratty
I tuned into groove salad stream today, and they were playing a loop just explaining why they weren't playing music.
They put it well, 'We're going silent for a day, help keep it a day, go to <whatever site> to sign the petition, contact your congress person, etc.'
It sure woke me up to the situation, I had no idea things were getting that dire, so I think it was a great idea actually. Its to give people a taste of whats to come before its too late. I know at least I tend to take things for granted until they're gone, so this was just simulating the gone part to make people appreciate.
Posted:
Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:32 pmby Nexeus
ratty wrote:I tuned into groove salad stream today, and they were playing a loop just explaining why they weren't playing music.
They put it well, 'We're going silent for a day, help keep it a day, go to <whatever site> to sign the petition, contact your congress person, etc.'
It sure woke me up to the situation, I had no idea things were getting that dire, so I think it was a great idea actually. Its to give people a taste of whats to come before its too late. I know at least I tend to take things for granted until they're gone, so this was just simulating the gone part to make people appreciate.
Yeah the silent protest has seemed to get the sort of attention it was looking for:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133458/article.html
Posted:
Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:21 pmby Nexeus
Nexeus wrote:ratty wrote:I tuned into groove salad stream today, and they were playing a loop just explaining why they weren't playing music.
They put it well, 'We're going silent for a day, help keep it a day, go to <whatever site> to sign the petition, contact your congress person, etc.'
It sure woke me up to the situation, I had no idea things were getting that dire, so I think it was a great idea actually. Its to give people a taste of whats to come before its too late. I know at least I tend to take things for granted until they're gone, so this was just simulating the gone part to make people appreciate.
Yeah the silent protest has seemed to get the sort of attention it was looking for:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133458/article.html
and seems to have gotten heard:
http://www.house.gov/inslee/multimedia/ ... .26.07.wmv
Posted:
Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:36 pmby Meenstreek
Go Rep. Jay Enslee!!! I'd like to mention that he's a Washington State Representative and I am also from Washington State.......which means I just gained 1000 cool points for even being affiliated. Rep. Enslee just got 1000000 cool points for the that speech and if this thing passes, a lifetime supply
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Posted:
Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:53 pmby Jactin
Lets just hope they do the right thing.
Posted:
Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:40 pmby Mire
It was an awsome success.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,130447.shtml
That myfriends, caused the crash Capwiz a portal people use to get their congressmen's and senator's contact information. Only happened once, when Oprah Winfrey mentioned the site on her program.