September Updates Are Here!
Hi y'all....
After a small delay in late August caused by the end-of-summer and beginning-of-Fall rush, the home page's Geo Statistics and Top 10 Tracks have been updated for first-half September 2005!!! Check 'em out while you're on the home page. These two features will very definitely be sticking around on the redesigned PLANET ZEB! home page based on their popularity in the current Listener Poll... which reminds me to note that if you haven't yet voted in that survey, please do so now! And keep an eye out for the new site later this Fall!!!
PLANET ZEB! continues to draw new listeners from a myriad of countries, US states and US cities with every passing month, as well as retain its faithful friends who've been listening for some time. I'm humbled and honored by the support, and THANK YOU for your continued interest in the station! As internet radio begins to mature, it's simply amazing how routine and bland it can seem to get at times-- just like broadcast radio-- with everyone and his or her brother slapping a few tracks on a streaming service and giving it a go. Broadcast radio is now copying formats like PLANET ZEB!'s (e.g. the "JACK FM" phenom, which I suspect won't be a phenom for long) and doing what they do so well.... prostituting it with a ton of ill-advised formatting artifacts to make it seem soulless and profitable (particularly the latter). Even over in the Live365 Community message boards, from which I recently joyously escaped duties as a moderator (its longest-serving, in fact... I was one of the service's original message area mods beginning in early 2001), I'm amazed at how petty, backbiting and hair-trigger-nasty a lot of broadcasters are getting with each other because they DON'T have one useful thing that (ironically) commercial radio stations generally DO have.... the business-minded objectivity of neutral detachment toward other broadcast entities. As such, EVERYTHING becomes "personal".... EVERYTHING has to be a struggle... and ALMOST everything has to be self-promotional in some way except for the posts of a handful of longer-term stalwarts who remember the good ole days when we could celebrate personal achievements together without constantly trying to sell our streams to other broadcasters (who, it's probably safe to say, have a vested interest in remaining a primary listener of their OWN station!).
Through all of this, many PLANET ZEB! listeners have continued to bombard the station's email box with some very heartfelt, personal, friendly and supportive emails regarding their enjoyment of the music and the station's presence. And it's every single one of those kinds of great communiques that keep me safe in the knowledge that PZ is still doing what it was intended to do.
Which is, in turn, nothing more than to strip all unnecessary artifact from some great music from the Golden Age of contemporary rock 'n' roll... and arrange it and play it to make people happy and keep them excited. And maybe bring back a nice memory or three along the way. :)
Thanks again for the feedback! Keep it coming, and I'll write again soon. To my friends, family and co-citizens of South Louisiana (I was raised in Baton Rouge).... courage. When you can't seem to shake thoughts of the few powerful who have deserted you, please remember the multitude of less powerful who refuse to do so now and into the future. Strength in numbers, cher!
Zebby
After a small delay in late August caused by the end-of-summer and beginning-of-Fall rush, the home page's Geo Statistics and Top 10 Tracks have been updated for first-half September 2005!!! Check 'em out while you're on the home page. These two features will very definitely be sticking around on the redesigned PLANET ZEB! home page based on their popularity in the current Listener Poll... which reminds me to note that if you haven't yet voted in that survey, please do so now! And keep an eye out for the new site later this Fall!!!
PLANET ZEB! continues to draw new listeners from a myriad of countries, US states and US cities with every passing month, as well as retain its faithful friends who've been listening for some time. I'm humbled and honored by the support, and THANK YOU for your continued interest in the station! As internet radio begins to mature, it's simply amazing how routine and bland it can seem to get at times-- just like broadcast radio-- with everyone and his or her brother slapping a few tracks on a streaming service and giving it a go. Broadcast radio is now copying formats like PLANET ZEB!'s (e.g. the "JACK FM" phenom, which I suspect won't be a phenom for long) and doing what they do so well.... prostituting it with a ton of ill-advised formatting artifacts to make it seem soulless and profitable (particularly the latter). Even over in the Live365 Community message boards, from which I recently joyously escaped duties as a moderator (its longest-serving, in fact... I was one of the service's original message area mods beginning in early 2001), I'm amazed at how petty, backbiting and hair-trigger-nasty a lot of broadcasters are getting with each other because they DON'T have one useful thing that (ironically) commercial radio stations generally DO have.... the business-minded objectivity of neutral detachment toward other broadcast entities. As such, EVERYTHING becomes "personal".... EVERYTHING has to be a struggle... and ALMOST everything has to be self-promotional in some way except for the posts of a handful of longer-term stalwarts who remember the good ole days when we could celebrate personal achievements together without constantly trying to sell our streams to other broadcasters (who, it's probably safe to say, have a vested interest in remaining a primary listener of their OWN station!).
Through all of this, many PLANET ZEB! listeners have continued to bombard the station's email box with some very heartfelt, personal, friendly and supportive emails regarding their enjoyment of the music and the station's presence. And it's every single one of those kinds of great communiques that keep me safe in the knowledge that PZ is still doing what it was intended to do.
Which is, in turn, nothing more than to strip all unnecessary artifact from some great music from the Golden Age of contemporary rock 'n' roll... and arrange it and play it to make people happy and keep them excited. And maybe bring back a nice memory or three along the way. :)
Thanks again for the feedback! Keep it coming, and I'll write again soon. To my friends, family and co-citizens of South Louisiana (I was raised in Baton Rouge).... courage. When you can't seem to shake thoughts of the few powerful who have deserted you, please remember the multitude of less powerful who refuse to do so now and into the future. Strength in numbers, cher!
Zebby
posted by zebby rhoads @ 8:38 AM
