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Smokey1 said on Monday March 17, 2008 08:33 AM

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Hi all,

First I want to say that Rex is doing a terrific job and in no way is this post a slight to him. This post is for SayNO2Sanity.

I wanted to tell you that your family is still out here. We were fans until Suzy's memorial and you made us family. We miss you very much and I still have the email you sent me last May when you had faded away. You said that every time you spoke into the mike you thought of Suzy and at times it helped you to be your best and at times it hurt too bad. When you did her birthday last month it was obvious that it still hurts. But, I wanted to tell you that the night you did the birthday party every table I played at people were talking about your broadcast. I don't know how many listeners you had but it seemed like her memorial all over. My point is that we're still here and we miss you. I can speak with absolute assurance when I say that when you feel like DJing, we'll feel like listening. We love you, we love your passion and we love your heart. If you could do even one show a month, it would mean the world to a lot of people.

Ok I'll stop with the guilt trip now and just tell you we wish you all the best and we do miss you very much.

Smoke

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SayNO2Sanity Posted by SayNO2Sanity on Monday March 17, 2008 17:25 PM

This is a typical station page.

Here station fans can tune in, discuss, tag the station, and join a station's group. Groups provides a closer connection with listeners and allows you to build a community around your station.

Tags are a way for listeners to bookmark your station and also provide a way to classify your station for searching. For instance, the more people that tag a station 'Alternative', the higher that station will appear when someone searches for or clicks an 'Alternative' tag.

new!When you purchase a broadcast package you are given a number of Listener Units. You divvy your Listener Units up among the four bit rate options: 32kbs, 64kbs, 96kbs, or 128kbs*. We came up with the idea of Listener Units so that you can re-allocate your bandwidth at any time.

For instance, let's say you start broadcasting thinking all your listeners will have a broadband connection. Eventually you start hearing from people that can't tune in because they're (unfortunately!) still on a dial up connection. All you have to do is re-allocate some Listener Units to the lower quality 32kbs stream!

*bit rates correspond to stream quality - a higher number means a higher quality stream

Basic stats are provided for your station. You can see what's happening 'now' and the last thirty days.

Weekly spin charts are generated for your station. They contain the top 100 most heard songs you played during the week. Charts are often linked to by artists which drives traffic back to your station.

There are many ways for your station to be found on LoudCity

All active stations are randomly rotated and appear on the homepage as a featured station.

The most used tags appear on the homepage. Click next and you'll see what happens when someone clicks the 'Alternative' tag.

This is the search results for all stations tagged 'Alternative'. As mentioned earlier, the stations most tagged 'Atlernative' are listed first.

When someone clicks on an artist name anywhere on the site they're taken to an artist page where they can see the stations that play that artist. Again the stations that play that artist most are listed first.

Yet another way for listeners to find stations they're going to like.

In addition to all the features you've just seen we also offer a Custom Launch Page option. This allows you to upload your own html page(s) to LoudCity. Since our webcasting licenses require our broadcasters to 'launch' their streams from the loudcity.com domain, the Custom Launch Page option is a great way to keep the look and feel of your existing site when you send listeners over to tune in.

Whether you're a seasoned online broadcaster or just want to try it as a hobby, LoudCity provides a great set of tools and features for you to be successful. Give it a try!