Jack | March 30, 2010
Hi there! And welcome to an extra little podcast from us Jack Ward and Shannon Hilchie here on the Sonic Society.
You know we usually have enough time to get through our feedback and notices during the show, but with the amazing Tsunami Radio Theater’s “Pax Romanus” we’re tight for our normal time. So we thought [...]
Jack | March 30, 2010
1. Countdown- by Jack Ward
1. Sonic Society Theme- by Sharon Bee
2. Introduction with Jack and Shannon
Hi! Thanks for coming to the Sonic Society. I’m Jack Ward with Shannon Hilchie. This week we present part one of a two part tour de force by Tsunami Radio Theatre a new company for us [...]
Jack | March 28, 2010
After a new power supply, a frustrating attempt to get the box closed again (Thanks Shannon!), a mysterious loss of the boot, and then another problem discovered and fixed, we’re back up.
Please feel free to get back to that Sonic Gold Survey if you’ve not finished it yet, or go check out Electric Vicuña web [...]
Jack | March 27, 2010
This morning when I woke up, there was a distinctly missing sound from the server- that being the sound of the fan operating. An email from a listener confirmed the nightmare- the server was down.
I rebooted it, and sans fan it started fine. So today I need to run out and grab a new power [...]
Jack | March 27, 2010
It appears to be survey season!
For those folks who feel left out because of the recent Sonic Gold survey, here’s another one!
It’s quick and its simple and it comes from Alan Middleton, an associate prof at Ohio University. Mr. Middleton is trying to get an idea of how folks listen and download their favourite shows.
Please [...]
Jack | March 27, 2010
It happened.
It really happened.
Roger Ebert, the most famous name in movie critics used his Twitter account and posted a message about our own Canadian Decoder Ring Theatre.
This goes into my thoughts that the longer running modern audio theatre is out there, the more folks will find it, and the more it will creep back into [...]
Jack | March 23, 2010
1. Sonic Society Theme- by Sharon Bee
2. Introduction with Jack and Shannon
Hi there. Welcome to this week at the Sonic Society. I’m Jack Ward with Shannon Hilchie.
Some sad news to start off with. All our hype about Biff Straker starting this week has gone up in smoke. I spoke last week to [...]
Jack | March 21, 2010
In a recent article on The Daily Telegraph Gillian Reynolds despairs in the slow choking out of the BBC’s audio drama department. In fact, the department will now be merged with “documentaries”.
Does the BBC not realize what they are losing? Audio drama across the Internet has been steadily on the rise. It has not been [...]
Jack | March 16, 2010
1. Sonic Society Theme- by Sharon Bee
2. Introduction with Jack and Shannon
Hi all and welcome to the Sonic Society. I’m Jack Ward with Shannon Hilchie.
This week maybe it’s the recovering from the flu but I’m feeling a little sentimental. It’s March Break in Nova Scotia and I’m putting heavy work in my reboot [...]
Jack | March 14, 2010
Jack wanders down to Wander Radio with host Jack Hosley to talk about a pile of issues including the Audio Drama Ratings System, a pile of audio drama and the recent announcements by veteran podcasters that they will be hanging up their microphones.
Listen in won’t you? It’s almost on your radio dial.
