Remind me again why we pay for BBC Radio.
Just a Girl in short shorts talking about whatever: Desert Ghost Radio
Zooming out of a 2,700 watt transmitter outside Globe, Arizona in the Pinal Mountains, and spreading over the northern Sonoran Desert are free form waves of eclectic side B classic rock. Since this type of subterranean rock and roll knocks the socks off this pseudo-punk, post- riot grrl rawker, I am thinking it just has to be a Boomer wet dream.
One oddity is that for the five years the broadcast has been streaming into the eastern side of the Valley of the Sun, and down Tuscon way, there has not been a single commercial.
You will also never hear the blather of a DJ—just the call letters KCDX every hour to keep the FCC content...
It is now streamed on the Internet as well as into the desert air. You can take a listen here.
Maybe it is just some generous hippie sitting atop a Desert Mountain, with a giant iPod shuffling all the tunes he downloaded from Napster, back in the outlaw days, and is now sharing them in the old fashioned pre-peer-to-peer network way...
And it does cost a bit to operate Desert Ghost Radio. One guy I talked to,who knows a bit about radio, estimated the yearly cost would be at least $200,000.
BBC Radio 2 has a service budget of £37.4 million in 2006/07.
Given the choice I think I will listen to the music without the blather, pity I still have to pay for the other....
