Category: Media (Page 29 of 45)

Floyd Radio

June 20, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

Radio Drama OTR and new skits will be performed live tonight! The Floyd Town Jubilee is in Floyd!

“The Town of Floyd presents The Floyd Town Jubilee featuring the popular Floyd Radio Show tonight (June 20) at 7:00 p.m. in the Warren G. Lineberry Community Park.

The Floyd Radio Show with hosts Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle is an old-timey variety show with original radio plays, comedy bits, ads, jingles, music and more. The show will feature special musical guests: Minton Sparks with John Jackson, The New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters and Town Mountain.”

Conor Malone is one of the latest recipients of the PJ O’Connor Awards. If the name of the awards sounds familiar, O’Connor was the late head of RTE Drama and represents the latest in best new Irish writing for Audio Drama. Malone, who manages the Balor Arts Centre in Ballybofey, won third place for his forty minute play entitled “The Fund”. Inishowen News has all the details here.

Powder River Wraps Up!

June 10, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

What keeps Jerry Robbins going? The very thought of being able to sustain a powerful series, let alone a fun action-oriented, grounded in history western such as Powder River for eleven seasons is mind blowing to us at the Sonic Society. But, we’re grateful he does and like many other fans, never want it to stop!

Here’s the latest wrap up news from the CRT Blog:

This week was a milestone for our POWDER RIVER series, as it wrapped production on its 11th season, and recorded it’s 150th episode! Not bad for a show that was a summer replacement program for THE NEW DIBBLE SHOW with a 15 episode run. However once it went on the air the listeners wanted to hear more, thanks in part to the three episode arc that concluded the first season, and several month later we were back recording RETURN TO POWDER RIVER – planning on ending after our 15th episode. But, that didn’t work out either, and here we are 11 years later still in production.
In celebration of our 150th episode, CRT would like to thank the cast and crew who have brought this show to life over the years.

Keep an eye open and your powder dry for the next release from Colonial Radio Theatre!

The Audio Drama Rating System Update!

May 30, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

It’s been a few years since our first release of the Audio Drama Rating System that we released in the incredible Audio Drama Directory. Many audio drama groups, companies, and individuals have been using the rating system to help identify what their content contains with thanks to Matt Leong’s artistry for the rating system badges!

Some people have asked why even have a rating’s system in the first place? Here was my answer back then:

Audio Drama on the Internet has become a renewed golden age of entertainment. So many new companies and individuals have created plays and stories and are distributing them through Internet Radio, Direct Downloads, Streaming and of course Podcasts. But as we become a larger and more robust community, it becomes more and more difficult to sort out which show is most appropriate for which audience. As an educator and a father, I know I would love to be able to point more families, teachers and students to a number of different audio play productions.

In the old days of radio, we had specific requirements banning certain language and adult situations. Today we have virtually no limitations in the breadth and scope of our tales! So, to help sort appropriate audiences, I have, with the consultation of several folks, developed a basic ratings system. It is my hope that many organizations and audio drama producers will sign on and agree to rate their shows so that many more people can listen and enjoy!

And it’s only become more important today with so many productions as we move through the Silver Age of the Modern Audio Drama movement and find fantastic new shows and new listeners.

In the tone of that collective effort I’m proud to provide folks with the BRAND NEW AUDIO DRAMA RATINGS VOICINGS by none other than Tanja Milojevic famous from Lightning Bolt Theatre of the Mind (and the upcoming Biff Straker) and John Bell from the hilarious and compelling Bell’s in the Batfry (and the aforementioned upcoming Biff too!)

Please feel free to download the new audio drama ratings and use on all your shows. Let’s help spread radio drama far and wide!

Excelsior!

Download Required

May 28, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

There’s a strange new trend going on with some new audio drama companies, and it’s hurting their audience.

Loads of companies are putting out youtube videos and soundcloud audio. The problem with streaming audio is that it doesn’t allow for asynchronous listening. And this kind of distributed listening is by far the most effective distribution of audio drama.

In other words, please make it easy for your listeners to find you! Add a download link every time you download a show. If you’re planning to distribute your audio drama freely, the purpose is to give the widest, best possible opportunities to find new ears.

Most listeners either use direct downloads to mp3 players or subscribe to an RSS feed– usually through itunes. Many audio-philes listen while driving to or from work or when exercising or doing chores. To expect in this rush of a life, that most audio drama listeners will stream an audio drama from their computer is at best short-sighted, at worst intentionally hurting your marketshare of an audience.

We love audio drama in the Sonic Society. We respect and buy professional radio plays, but if you’re planning to make it free- by all means put it up for streaming, but please make it free to get for all!

Thrilling Adventure Hour Misleads Fans…

May 23, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

It actually is more like 80 minutes of comedic action instead of just 60!

The Thrilling Adventure Hour packs a pile of fun in their live performances and according to The New Zealand Herald is just the right format for Los Angeles writing duo Ben Blacker and Ben Acker to hone their craft.

Folks who aren’t yet fans of the awesome AD have yet to experience some of their regular episodes like “Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars” and interplanetary cowboy tale and “Beyond Belief”, featuring Nick and Nora Charles, the high society ghostbusters among many other other sketches.

Find and subscribe the Thrilling Adventure Hour and enjoy hours (or more) of fun! You’ll really get the Bens.

Anime Audio

May 20, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing on July 18th the fourth collection of Saburouta’s yuri manga Citrus. Along with the collection will be a special CD audio drama. The audio drama will relate a new episode in their relationship. Ayana Taketatsu and Minami Tsuda reprise the leads after voicing them in an earlier preview.

Cast includes:

Yuzu Aihara: Ayana Taketatsu

Mei Aihara: Minami Tsuda

Matsuri Mizusawa: Sayaka Horino

Himeko Momokino : Yurika Kubo

Harumi Taniguchi : Yukiyo Fujii

So if manga is your jam, and Citrus is your flavour, go have a listen to the news!

A Warming Trend

May 18, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

Icebox Radio Theater has announced a new direction for their podcast shows. IBRT Director, Jeffrey Adams identifies the changes in a recent PRESS RELEASE. Go have a look at how the IBRT is moving into the future. We’re all a twitter about it here in the Society!

Mrs. Robinson… Are you trying to seduce us (with radio drama)?

May 7, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

Tracy-Ann Oberman may be famous for her performance in EastEnders but radio drama aficionados,
“she’s the familiar voice from more than 600 (yes, 600) radio plays, comedies and sketch shows since 1995. Oberman’s next role is similarly surprising as she takes on one of Hollywood’s most enigmatic dames, namely Anne Bancroft’s Mrs Robinson from Mike Nichols’s 1967 film The Graduate. In a radio drama. Written by none other than Oberman herself.”

Read the rest of this fascinating story of cougar-mania at Radio Times.

The Magician

May 6, 2015 / Jack / 0 Comments

It’s 1993 and I’m getting ready to perform the lead role- Cliff Bradshaw- at Western University’s Cabaret. As I’m getting ready in makeup one of the actresses says to another, “Do you know who he looks like?”
The other actress shakes her head confused at the question.
The first sighs and says, “It’s going to sound like I’m buttering him up, but yeah… Orson Welles.”
The other actresses eyes widen for a moment, “You know, you’re right.”

I was beaming inside. Newly married, and someone who had spent a love and hate affair with the stage, I was going back out to a full house to sing and dance and sweat my way through the show. But I never forgot the comment, and it’s carried me along. Through the Shadowlands, my first radio drama showcase, and into the Sonic Society, Mr. Welles has always been on my shoulder. The studio computer is called Orson, and I always listen to his work in awe.

There will never be another man like him. Just being compared in the most superficial of ways made a grand difference in my life. He was, in short, a genius.

The British Film Institute agrees. On his 100th, they have put out a great documentary supporting his genius- and a man who we shall never see the like again. As much as I wish it, I was just a shadowy likeness of the man.