Thanks for Supporting Country Girl Radio - We Did It!

[djMot]

Okay, so I'm happy to report that we have apparently achieved success on this one.  According to Radionomy, after I specifically had to ask:

Country Girl Radio has been activated more than one year ago. You probably received an alert if your audience was "critical" one month before the 1st October evaluation, but you don't receive one more email if the evaluation is successful.
 

Yes, but the 30 day assessment "alert" came on September 8, which makes October 8 the actual assessment date, and it has always been my understanding that if you made the numbers at the 9 month mark (not over a year ago,) you were "Premium" from that point on.  But we moved from the SHOUTcast side of Radionomy over to the actual Radionomy Internet Radio service in January, so the 9 month thing seemed logical to me.  I think they have their dates messed up due to the move from one side of their house to the other.  Also Girls Rock Radio, my other station, did get an email announcing we had achieved Premium status, so not much of their reply makes a great deal of sense to me.  But whatever, right?

So others have asked, "What's your other station?" since I have said their are two of them.  So here's the 411 on both stations:

Girls Rock Radio - Where the Girls are!
On air date: June 2006. More than a decade of continuous broadcasting!
Website: http://www.girlsrockradio.com
Direct Stream URL: http://listen.radionomy.com/girlsrockradio
iTunes Radio: found under "Alternative Rock"
Girls Rock Radio plays the music of women artists in the Rock, Pop, and Alternative music genres.  It's a carefully blended mix that really works, and has a really broad appeal.  The station also features many independent artist that you have never heard before, and who have sought out the station requesting airplay. With several thousand songs in the playlist, it would take days (weeks!) to work through them all, and to experience all the "moods" that the station weaves it way through.  It's a sweet ride, believe me!


Country Girl Radio - Boys, form a line!
On air date: September 2, 2015.
Website: http://www.countrygirlradio.com
Direct Stream URL: http://listen.radionomy.com/countrygirlradio
iTunes Radio: found under "Country"
Country Girl Radio features the music of women artists in the Contemporary Country music genre.  I first envisioned the station after watching the Footloose reboot movie.  In particular, the line dancing scene (Goggle: Footloose 2011 - Full Dance Scene for the video of that scene) and hence the station's tag line "Boys - form a line!"  And of course it just fits in with the women in music thing I already had going on, extending it into the massively popular country music genre.

The Common Vision
My belief and my vision for GRR and CGR is that they must become a platform and a voice beyond just the entertainment value they provide.  A voice for issues effecting women, yet with the specific desire to include and encourage men to be a part of the conversation.  Issues such as teenage pregnancy, rape and other violence against women, breast cancer and other maladies effecting women, low glass ceilings for women, inappropriate media portrayals of women, etc.  It has been brutally difficult to get any traction under this agenda!  For those who know me better, you know that this has caused me to strive to regain full time employment in the "regular" working world.  Yet the dream and the vision persist.  Maybe one day the stars will all align and this will move forward in a truly spectacular way.

 

 

You can help

The best ways to help are giving the stations a shout-out in your everyday social media use - Facebook, Twitter, etc. so as to help me to continue to build the audience.  Then there is listening.  Listening keeps our numbers up and avoids trouble with Radionomy, so please tune in often and for a long time.  With two stations, I probably have the majority of you covered.  Experience has shown that monetary contributions are never enough to cover expenses.  I will NOT now, nor will I ever ask this group for monetary contributions.  That's totally up to you, and I'm just as happy to have you as a listener more than anything else.  Please enjoy the stations absolutely guilt free, but as you listen to any Internet radio station, not just mine, realize that it takes time, effort, money, and extreme expertise in multiple disciplines to pull off a station, and we don't really get support via the voluntary contribution revenue model.  Most are moving to an in-stream geo-targeted ad-supported revenue model, BUT this does not cover all expenses.  And in the case of Radionomy, they stopped paying US-based stations a revenue-share on ads due to the massive increase in royalty rates we must all pay to the music industry beginning on January 1, 2016.  Finally, if you have the talent to lend to the vision I wrote about above, contact me through either station on its Contact page.

 

Thank you for your support of my stations, and of Internet radio as a whole!

You can be proud of saving Country Girl Radio!  
 

[tsw 8.5]

thanks bud will keep the tunes on ..

[hxtr]

Glad to hear djMot. 

[Hunter1948]

I am happy everything worked out for you DJ.

[ViPRZ]

Glad to see it all work out DJ..it is a pretty cool station to listen to..take care

[HarryWeezer]

Wonderful! Congrats.

[codpiece]

My taste in music is not the same as yours Mot. However, I can help a brotha out. So I will put on you station in the background and just mute it. Glad you made it!

 

Idiots to the rescue LOL

[24oz]

Good to hear it was saved DJ.

[Merlin007]

That's awesome DJ. Glad to hear it worked out.

 

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[Sonovabich>XI<]

Pleased for you Mot

[Giggles]

WTG Mot