(Another) Grand Experiment

Here we go again. In March, 2009, Grin Radio was born. A month later it was kaput. By the summer of this year I was inspired to start up the the GRIN—again! This time the music was different, then the same as the old incarnation, then flipped again to, quoting Monty Python’s Flying Circus, “…something completely different.” Classic Rock and sports was on the GRIN. We invested at least a hundred bucks in the new Internet stream and thought that the second chance would have at least some return on investment. Wrong! The first version of the station was on a free server, cost me only my labor and non-financial resources, and had quite a few listeners (not a bad return). This time around, relatively few people tuned in (at a cost of about $25 per listener average; me being one.)

In the traditional radio industry, my real day job, Internet streaming is looked upon with tepid contempt, especially with the bean counters. Honestly, they have a valid point. I believe in streaming as a concept, but see it as a fledgling technology. Radio, on the other hand, is a fully mature medium. Streaming will not truly compete until the average Joe in his average 10 year old automobile can follow an Internet stream from his car to his trusty clock radio reliably without interruption. True portability might eventually happen. Right now streaming, at best,  only augments old fashioned broadcasting.

Having said all that, as of mid-October the Grin will once again be shelved. With respect to the few that did tune in, my sincere thanks are in order.

Stay tuned