A listener found DJs and music through terrestrial radio, building a network to promote her own work where social media failed. Speaker B hosted a show at his community radio station in coastal Maine with his four-year-old son as sidekick, showing how college and community radio stations remain active platforms for real connection.
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just listened to the radio in her car and this miraculous thing happened. She started to find local radio stations, started to understand who the local DJs were, they who were playing local music in, in the vicinity. So like, so then when it came time for her to put out music and talk about music, she had this whole new network of people to talk about music with. None of that happened on social media. It was because it was terrestrial radio, which is still a thing. Like, college radio people, look out for college radio. Vibrant scene. Vibrant scene.
Still. Yeah. I lived in a very, very small town in coastal Maine for a number of years that had a community radio station, and I had a show on that station. I used to actually do the show with my then 4-year-old son. He was my, my sidekick.