Activist Radio — Culture, Politics and Life

Webstream service update

Posted February 5, 2010 - 07:14 by Gordon Whiting
After much research and testing, we have decided to abandon plans for off-site streaming service. Over the weekend we will be configuring our own server, the NCH Broadwave system. When it is ready, we will be back in broadcast mode. There are also parallel developments on the station/studio front-- should those bear fruit in the immediate future, this webstream dilemma will be moot. Thanks for your patience while we work this out.

The Depression Chronicles

Posted January 17, 2010 - 18:53 by Angie

Sad Kitty

 

In addition to our ongoing political and arts/culture programming, we're developing a series of conversations about depression. I'd very much appreciate your suggestions as to topics and guests.

Please keep posting about your personal experiences and questions in the other topic, The Reality of Depression. And of course our members have the ability to start new topics, too. If possible, I'd like to keep this space pretty straightforward: ideas about different facets of depression we might discuss, and authors, doctors, experts, and other guests you'd like us to consider for the series.

Next post is some of the stuff I'm already sketching out.

The reality of depression

Posted January 14, 2010 - 15:39 by Angie

Time for some frank discussion.

I've made it a point throughout the course of my radio career to be honest about my chronic depression. The same way that - when relevant to the conversation - I'll mention my bum knees or my less-than-perfect spine, I've never flinched when it's natural to say I suffer from depression.

Correction: sometimes I've flinched, but I've done it anyway.

People see me as a high achiever. Because they hear me on the radio; because I come across as bright and somewhat accomplished; because I have a quick wit and sound like someone you might want to have coffee or a cocktail with, it's easy to see me in your mind as a person who pretty much gets what she wants and needs out of life.

We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident

Mt. Rushmore

And we ain’t gonna argue about them any more.

Last week as I chatted with a guest, producer extraordinaire Susan O’Leary took a listener’s call. Roughly paraphrasing: “Angie doesn’t buy into that global warming stuff, does she?”

Of course I do. And I’m not about to waste valuable airtime arguing about it.

As we’ve said from Day One, our team is carving out space on the AM dial for probing, intelligent conversations. The usual gold-mine topics (and their usual scathing, non-productive presentation) have no place here. Abortion, the “birther” nonsense, marriage equality, global warming: settled issues, from our editorial perspective.

Ahhhh, real days off!

Posted December 26, 2009 - 15:26 by Angie

relaxing frog

I did it. I took time off, in a way I haven't done in years. Turned off the phone, stayed off the site, didn't check work email. Couldn't completely break my news addiction, but for the most part didn't go too far past the headlines.

This weekend I stick a toe back in - I'm working now on posting one of the simplest ways almost anyone can help save water. (Yes, I'm easing back into the bigger stuff. Can ya tell?) Monday it's real work again, powering up the show to bring it back on the 4th. But damn, this has been great! I hope your holidays have been, too.

Credits

Angie Coiro, Host and Senior Producer
Gordon J. Whiting, Executive Producer
Susan O'Leary, Producer
Ellen Weis, Publicity
David Dunning, Webmaster
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Having a problem logging in with Firefox?

Posted September 29, 2009 - 10:41 by David

We have seen an odd problem since some time yesterday, where trying to log in to your account here will not work. What is especially peculiar about it is that it only happens with Firefox (3.5.3 in my case). Google Chrome and IE7 were working fine for me. Deleting the cookies for this site in Firefox cured the problem, at least in my case.