If you don't like our groups and pages on Facebook, don't go there. I had to resign in to Facebook, because somebody was sniffing around a bunch of OUR photos. Now the fact that the idiots at Facebook, can't appreciate fine eye candy is one thing, but fact is, the groups are not aimed at women or toddlers, but guess what we get singled out. What has been entertainment on our groups and pages now seem to be offensive. Really. Now if this was just us I'd say okay, I'll fix it, but I have seen much, much more on Facebook, right in the Newsfeed. I report the damn thing. Guess what friends I get some response from some not yet dry behind the ear college boy at Facebook, saying that such and such does not violate the community standards. I guess some hot gal posing with a classic big truck is nasty, but some gal taking a dump and calling others mothers a slut isn't. My how the pages and times have changed.
So I'm going in later tonight, pulling all but a very few pages and groups, and maybe eventually quiting frigging Facebook all together. Who needs em?
Sometime this summer, I'm taking a long trip to Gay bay California, going to the headquarters of both Google and Facebook, and having a rather heated pow wow with them. Here you are trying to make a living and you get hammered. The reason, these outfits that were once free, need not just want, but NEED you to set up a paid, commercial account with them. Spend money they leave you alone. Ignore their ads , they come bug you. Maybe its time for a better FB, or at least a more open minded social website? Now if I can just get my other half and such to quit pulling out our content for all to see, we wont have this problem.
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I remember my start at least the real start in broadcasting. I was first recruited and drafted to doing some thing for our FFA or Future Farmers of America charter in Hagerman Idaho, at around age 12. It wasn't something I had little interest in any more since the availability of work was extremely limited. But I went. Kim Lee of Lee Family Broadcasting now, was about 7 or 8 years old at the time, his brother Kent was younger but more tech savy. Any mile KFMA was thee FM in the area at the time, mostly playing office background style music. I went in and toyed with some advanced gear that is primitive today but at the time state of the art. This was about the time of Drake Chanault . Any mile tired of that, my mini bike shop and dads trucking outfit needed some ads, so we stopped one day at then KEEP AM 1450 in Twin Falls Idaho. While Dad did some business I got to talking with two fellers one the news director/engineer and the Sports director. So I was put into a thing of a intern with a teen that was doing overnights on weekends named Paul J Wilson. I learned uch from him as well as Big Kelly and so on. A year or two later Paul needed to get his FCC 3rd ticket with broadcast endorsement called E-9. So the trip to Boise and back was interesting. Paul had to take the test twice, I did it in one take, and past with 100%. When we got back KEEP had just started moving to its current location on Park avenue in Twin Falls. One afternoon Dave Capps and I had this chat as he had an FM up and running called KEZJ Which stands for EASZ Jazz. I mentioned that converting that to a hit country music station was a good idea, plus adding an overnight truckers program would be a grand concept. However my style of radio and that of KEZJ always being careful as to not excite the big bad church types, decided to ship me out. KLIX though was all happy. Somewhere in between Paul left, in came a cat named Mike Arms, who took me under his arm and taught me many skills. However when he left to go to KFXD in Boise I decided that the move to KLIX was good. Funny that KLIX is is the same place as KEZJ. Capt. Showbizz as we called him should never sold out to Clear Channel. aka IHeart. Over the years I bounced around to many stations as one does in the business. Oh I am sure had I taken the long term offer from KFI out of Hollywood or something I'd have been better off, but I never got into radio to be a radio star. I felt that there were lonely over the road truckers, military veterans and so on that were sadly mis served or very underserved. And especially preaching and teaching on the true knowledge of southern history and heritage. So it was in 1976 that outlaw station KDSL FM 89.1 out of Hagerman Idaho signed on air, that later became KTOW FM at 101.5 in Hagerman in 1984.
But you learn great lessons, but being on air is one thing that part is a gas, but being the guy that makes sure it earns, well that's another thing , that part, is very different. When your an on air your not much conscience of the FCC and other authorities, your not much thinking on how much that radio equipment costs. Or hiring and firing people. Or even dealing with people. You deal on air, grab a cup go home. When your the Alpha Wolf of the station you begin to hammer your head , you have to deal with the costs, wages, a human resources parts of running a radio station as a business, rather than just being on air and doing radio as a daily gig with little responsibility.
Here lately its been like a mouse pushing a big boulder up a steep incline with his nose. You eventually get there, but just as you crest the hill, you stumble and fall back to the bottom and have to start pushing back up the hill, much if not all the time , by yourself.
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I don't know about ya'll but if your like me with a creative independent mind, your ability to express yourself and deliver news and content online is pretty much being hobbled. Seems here lately the one near bullet proof Google and Blogger has been suspending my accounts? Really? Nothing has changed as to what I write or relay to all of you since I signed on with Google in 2001 and started blogging on Blogger in 2003. That was due to a Davis County Commissioner candidate running for a seat on that Commission then that told me of Blogger. From one titled blog to near 65 titles, and I get my account suspended? Then being a client of Google Chrome, as well as Google's Desktop even though the latter is no longer supported by Google still I use it. The fact that
I have all 5 of both my companies and two of the Knyte's companies on Google, and yet my account gets suspended? It's nearly as onery as the new cop pulling me over the other for not having the current years tags on my license plates on the General, even though all is current. There's things you don't do in life, you don't pull the mask off of the Lone Ranger, you don't tug at Superman's cape and you damn well don't want to mess with the Hazzard Knytes. You can think about it, but don't do it.
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Good Friday morning, or at least Morning. I'm having a cognitive moment here in attempting to make decisions. Thing is that while I believe in this radio gig, and where it can go, as well as defending rural America or at least the rural Mountain West, the stress's and all is beginning to become such that I might have to choose to put the operation on the back burner. At least until such time that I can if needed move it to Twin Falls or at least Burley Idaho. While the operation of HazzardAyre Radio and all that makes that up, I have a great young woman in all ways a woman who moved here to go to bat to help escalate this radio thing to levels that I can't hardly imagine. Trouble is with some trouble with Shelly's money that helps pay for the shop, the landord that rents us the shop, his brother who had the office/studio pulled back from renting us the stuidio office. Which means this remains in my home. Unless I can generate some serious cash in the next few days the whole dang thing might have to be put on hiatus since I don't even know right now how we are going to pay TinkerBelle. She's got expenses, rent, utilities, truck payment and so on, that's going to come due, and even the lifeline our Internet/cable service might be put in limbo, since the $400.00 they want , I don't have and right now the Knytes are not in a great enthusiastic mood to provide. The Knytes's thoughts are near mine, move this to Burley, Idaho. Sell this damn license to someone for 1240 AM, and move me, HCC/Cooter's A1 Toewing and HazzardAyre Radio there where the human and tech resources are a bit better. When Shelly didn't send in her full contribution to the Knytes for the shop and all, that started a ball rolling, shop rent is missing so we're mainly me are about to loose the shop, that made it to where no office space for a studio for the radio station, so I'm up against a wall. Anyone who knows me, knows, before LexiBelle, my tow truck suffers, bet your next tune up, that I'll put this radio thing in storage, to keep the shop. This month started out good, with an influx of money from part of the settlement of the Foundation and all, but by the time I paid all the local loan sharks, house rent, and all everything else was gone. When I hired TinkerBelle, it was based on that office studio. Since that is on hold, unless I can raise some serious cash, then it'll mean I'll have to layoff TinkerBelle, move my trucks out to Rick's and see about elsewhere to live. And I can nearly tell you this, no radio gig, no shop, no towing when it starts snowing, there might not be a me & Shelly.
More in The evening on my show, hopefully as we are having computer problems up the wazzoo, Google's Chrome has been really taking a serious shit lately.
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Another good show now in the box and now just letting the water in the boiler to heat to get a bath then bed.
I must say that working with Spreaker.com is much nicer than working with Livestream.com . Don't get me wrong Livestream got us here so I'm not abandoning the platform, but Livestream is not for cyber radio, its more aimed at IPTV streaming, not just audio. Although Livestream.com gives me a 50 listener limit for my free account, that Livestream.com want $4.00 for program storage, thing is, I've gave them my credit card number at least a dozen times. With Spreaker.com all I had to do was use my card once, set up my Pro account and it was off to the races. With Spreaker.com, there are not constant adjustments needed, my cpu never overloads, and only once did I have to contact their tech support. Livestream? Have called many times. Bottom line, Spreaker.com is for radio , Livestream.com is for big market IPTV.
Well, I'm headed to bed.
TTYLY
