Archive for September, 2009

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

OCBS AGM 29th October 2009

The Otago Community Broadcasters’ Society Incoporated will be holding its AGM on the 29th of October 2009 in the Alexander McMillan Room, Dunedin Community House, 301 Moray Place, Dunedin. The OCBS is the body that represents programme makers to the Trust, and fundraises for the station – so this is an important meeting to make [...]

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

173 fans! Stunning!

I have it on good authority that our Facebook page is now up to 173 fans. 173! That’s fantastic! If you’re already one of them, congratulations – if you’re not (and you have no objection to Facebook – I know some people do) why not become one? It’s obviously a winning formula… Oh….. wait…. we’ve [...]

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Thursday, September 10th, 2009

A small announcement regarding administrative matters

After (not) much soul-searching, we have decided to disable comments on this site. The one genuine human being who once left a comment on a post may be distressed, but I don’t imagine the millions of robots who were attempting to use this web page to sell various prescription medicines and collections of illegal pornography [...]

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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Studio functionality increased! Screaming hordes of fans overjoyed!

As those of you who make regular use of the studio will know, noise problems on mics 2 and 3 have been a major pain for programme makers since time immemorial. Well, it’s now FIXED! Following the advice of our good friends at Access Manawatu, we’ve wrapped the springs on the anglepoise micstands, and it’s [...]

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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Welcome back, Lou!

Fans of jazz music will be pleased to know that Lou McConnell is back from his tour of Europe. Lou broadcasts the TaxiJazz Café at 4.30pm every Thursday, and this afternoon will be his first live show in over 100 days!

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

A note for troglodytes

Now, with the gorgeous weather we’ve been having lately you’ve really got no excuse for hiding inside, but for those who fear and shun the burning Daystar in favour of the comforting glow of a Visual Display Unit, we have some interesting news. You can now follow the miscellaneous comings, goings, doings and sayings of [...]

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