Radio.KSF?

*December 15th; I am trying to revive the project somewhat. On page three there is now a streaming guide for playing into games etc.

*ANNOUNCEMENT October 6th:
Radio.KSF has an e-mail [email protected]. This is a general contact and also we are doing a Q&A/ advice segment like the advice columns they have in newspapers. Don't expect serious advice, this is meant to be a fun segment so ask questions that can have humorous responses/ are humorous or even absurd by nature. So to pose a question you can use the e-mail for this as well.

I go by slaraka now, my forum name is outdated.

So just now in the surf timer I got some compliments for my voice when I was reading some stories. After talking to Joe, Dillinger, and Simply Downs, we feel that we should get into radio! Not radio as in airwaves, we are cheap! No radio as in some sort of internet radio type thing. Perhaps if we get some listeners who don't play on our servers here it they will be interested? Could be a way to get population.

We are not entirely sure what our DJ lineup would be like. I am pretty sure I want to do some sort of radio drama, Dillinger is likely a good candidate for music and what not. Other content that would likely work well with our station are Crank Calls, alternative news, and perhaps even a response to questions etc show. We are looking for suggestions as well as new(er) talents! We are quite far away from a 24/7 lineup, and we aren't really going for that right now. But getting as much as we can while also being sure to be able to have some reliable air times would be nice.

We are quite far from actually starting (new idea), but I am fairly confident I can do some sort of narration or drama. The others I have talked to will be considering things they could do and I am considering additional content as well.

DJs
slaraka - A General in the Prussian Liberation Army, slaraka's current show(s) are "Bedtime Stories with Uncle Slaraka" which are dramatizations of real world craziness read as
though they are fairy tales, and "A Small Dose of WTF", which are readings/ acting of rather strange, short stories I find online or are requested/ recommended to me.

If we don't generate enough interest, this will die. Just like all those kids in Africa you don't care about.

*UPDATE October 6th:
I made us our own steam group (staff only): http://steamcommunity.com/groups/RadioKSF-Staff/ Before joining please show interest in working as a staff through actions (brainstorming, posting on thread etc) to demonstrate you are serious as I do not want a group full of people who might be staff. Group is invite only so contact me to request an invite first: My steam name changes sometimes but I am usually slaraka or Spirit Animal #anusWasp (Do NOT add me just to ask if you can join, many good candidates for staff are already on my friends list so this is for them) or you could try contacting me on forums.

Actually opening up an online radio station is not too expensive. Here are some links to online radio services
http://radio.about.com/od/createinterne ... tion_3.htm
http://techcrunch.com/2007/06/07/make-y ... broadcast/
http://www.spreaker.com/

If you guys manage to get a legitimate online radio going, then I am willing to create a command that players can use to listen to while they are on the server.

Yo Slaraka,
I think it sounds like an awesome idea and im also willing to put in some money to get this up and running. I will start thinking about ideas for things to be used for the radio. Cool Dj text about youself you got there! :D

Thank you for your offer mausi, regarding the infrastructure Radio.KSF will be run off of I haven't decided yet. I have been busy with school but I look at things occasionally. I notice evolv was kind enough to suggest some websites that do it mostly for you. This may be a personal preference of mine to be ignored but I still want to investigate pros and cons with hosting my own server etc. I am fairly certain the latter would cost more and I am not yet aware how much our community will warrant that need. Most likely we will start off on one of the websites like evolv suggested and work up from there dependent on our needs. Evolv set up a /radio/ director on the website it looks like for us, if we were to switch to a VPS that I manage for it then we would need a sub-domain like "radio.ksfclan.com" instead of "www.ksfclan.com/radio" but that isn't terribly important. I think with the VPS I would use icecast because it is open source and interoperable with shoutcast. I have not thoroughly examined those sites yet but I am guessing that many of them require the stream to be accessed through a browser whereas icecast could be accessed through a more diverse array of things.

Too long/ didn't read/ I'm Danish - I dunno what are funds required are, thank you for your offer, and I am examining what infrastructure to use.

Donations specific to Radio.KSF would be nice because I do not want added strain on the main donation pool.

I had an idea for something but it would require evolv's approval. Evolv do you think we could do like contests for VIP status? I am thinking something like over a set time period (maybe a month) we would host a few contests and completing them (most contests will probably not be limited to just one victor) will earn a certain amount of raffle entries. At the end of the time period a random result will be made with more raffles correlating to a higher chance to win. The result likely wouldn't be permanent VIP, say if the contest runs for a month then the VIP awarded would run for a month.

Possible contests:
logic contests (maybe, don't want people sharing answers)
guessing who will finish in a surf race first
competing in a surf race/ general surf contests
map making contest (make a map based off of a prompt, not a whole map and not necessarily surf related but that would be most frequent, victor chosen by Radio.KSF staff, only one person would win and this would be worth quite a bit more chances to win than the others.)
and whatever else we can come up with!

Can't stress this enough, we need your suggestions for what you would like to see Radio.KSF do!

Again i cant wait until you get the radio started.

My friend K1NG (who's american) would also like to be a Dj on the radio.

And i also thought about some sort of a music quiz competition where a person chooses a certain artist and gets like 5-10 seconds played of a certain song.

Anyway, still looking for ideas.

If you guys manage to get the radio working ... could we finally put in the rule to stop playing music on mic then?

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Originally Posted by Sacred

If you guys manage to get the radio working ... could we finally put in the rule to stop playing music on mic then?

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Not up to me but Radio.KSF will almost certainly have a lot of downtime or at least time when a live DJ isn't hosting a segment. I personally would like people to have a choice of what to listen to.

I made us our own steam group (staff only): http://steamcommunity.com/groups/RadioKSF-Staff/ Before joining please show interest in working as a staff through actions (brainstorming, posting on thread etc) to demonstrate you are serious as I do not want a group full of people who might be staff. Group is invite only so contact me to request an invite first: My steam name changes sometimes but I am usually slaraka or Spirit Animal #anusWasp (Do NOT add me just to ask if you can join, many good candidates for staff are already on my friends list so this is for them) or you could try contacting me on forums.

Slaraka this concept is very cool and i really wish that this picks up and the community starts to show more interest in this amazing idea. I am willing to advertise for this and tell people to sign up on the forums and give us some ideas just brainstorm and the Q&A segment sounds like it would be alot of fun and I can help with the money if that ever becomes an issue. Id like to do anything from Dj'ing to answering the questions doing that dare segement which sound like a very cool idea and i am extremely interested in but most of all guys please please please post on this thread show some intrest before this whole thing dies before it starts thanks you

Sincerely,Simply Down Syndrome

P.S. I LOVE ALL OF YOU

Thanks for the interest Simply. What dare segment are you talking about? What would that segment be about?

Speaking of the Q&A segment this would be a segment for listeners to ask questions kinda like those ask for advice things in the newspaper. "'My husband blablabla...' 'Well shirley it sounds like you should blablabla...'" those sorts of things. If you do decide to submit questions for that try and make them have some humor to them/ our response has room for humor.

I made an e-mail for Radio.KSF, [email protected]. Only I currently have access to the email and right now there is only one e-mail so anything that you don't want to pose in this thread (I'd like suggestions and questions that are unanswered to be posted here so everyone can participate although if for whatever reason you wish to privately contact about anything you still may), questions for the Q&A segment, contacting me about RadioKSF and all that is on this one address.

Here is a sample of a based on a true story I just whipped up, it could use some work and the ones that appear on the radio will be more tailored to it, but this still will likely be aired.

*Bed Time Stories With Uncle Slaraka I - Fritzl is a satire by slaraka, and is not intended maliciously. slaraka has invented all names and situations in their stories, except in cases when public figures are being satirized. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental, or used as a fictional depiction or personality parody (permitted under Hustler Magazine v. Fallwell, 485 US 46, 108 S.Ct 876, 99 L.Ed.2d 41 (1988)).

"Bed Time Stories With Uncle slaraka I - Fritzl":

Hannah: Uncle slaraka-

slaraka: God damnit WHAT?

Hannah: Can you read me a bed time story? PWEAAAASE!

slaraka: Fine... So you know how everyone loves you very very much?

Hannah: Yeah, well sorta:

slaraka: Well one time there was a man named Joseph Fritzl who also loved someone very, very much. He had a very special relationship
with his daughter Elisabeth. He started to show that special love with her when she was eleven. Unfortunately she couldn't keep her little
mouth shut, and some corrupt government officials wouldn't mind their own god damn business-

Hannah: Then what happened!

slaraka: Just let me read the story and you will find out... Now where were we, ah yes. Although this would have been an issue Joseph had a
great plan! A final solution if you will. At age 17 Elisabeth had ran away but was put back in her place by those same nosy government
officials mentioned earlier. This time she was to run away again... but not really! By having her help put a door on a dungeon Joseph had
been constructing for the past couple years she sealed herself in and right as rain the love continued! This love continued on for
about 24 years and they had 7 children together. Much to Joseph's dismay those very mean officials caught up to him when he was so
graciously helping Elisabeth with their imbred son who had fallen ill. The little bitch once again could not keep her little mouth shut...
And unfortunately now Joseph Fritzl is being subjected to horrible conditions in a prison...

slaraka: Say do you know what the morale of this story is?

Hannah: No what?

slaraka: Keep your fucking mouth shut.

Hannah: OK!

Fin.

So bed time stories is based on actual harrowing events. I will read them in such a way as to sympathize with the sick fucks with the tone of voice you would expect to hear a fairy tale read in! I may need some help with Hannah's voice though. If you know of really cruel cases and what not to tell me about they may become a bed time story. Also I feel as though this may need to have more content added, the air version will likely go into more detail about their children, how he dealt with them, and perhaps sex scene, this is just a draft to showcase my upcoming segments!

Anyone have some constructive criticism for me?