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New Years Eve OLDSCHOOL SPECIAL Playing on Mystery Radio NOW

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Hear your favorites from Dance house Freestyle, and Dance-Pop from the 80s and 90s for tonight on Mystery Radio http://174.37.194.139:8122/ Itys just like Hot 97, Power 96, Power 106, B-96, and Power 105 and Energy 96.5 all over again.
 
I gave up and lost hope on the old school stuff,, No one wants to tune in,, I just cant compete with stations like Mikes,,, 1club, DI, Fusion, B-91, and all those.
 
Like Stevie B told me: You have to consider which days/nights and what times you're doing a broadcast. Unless you're well known or advertised, a lot of people will not tune in or even be aware of the station. It's even worse during certain times and days when people are likely not to be streaming (Ex: the night of big games/superbowl, major holiday, days of special events, ...etc.)

I would never judge how good or bad myself or anyone else is based on a net station performance, unless I was KDON or some big net station with a direct website dedicated specifically for it that SHOULD be getting high numbers due to being established.
 
No doubt KDM!

One thing you can do (if you don't already) is find a way to track listeners habits. Find your "drive time" hours, the hours that you get the highest cume. Don't mess with what you are doing in these hours, but use those hours to promote specialty shows or mixes you run during the off hours. A simple 10 or 15 second spot once an hour can drive some new listeners to specialty shows. Avoid testing in your key dayparts, instead try to bring the listeners to that show or off daypart, then you can increase your cume for those hours, and the overall TSL for the station.

If you don't want the hassle of running your own station, I would love to have you produce a specialty show for us, just IM me and we can maybe work on a project together.
 
The reason I canned the oldschool show early was due to a handful of listeners complaining that I was playing Rerecorded and or Alternate Studio releases and they wanted the Trance house and breaks back... I got gopod news and bad news.. Deluxe FM is still leaving the air,, but I got donated from a relative to run licensing for Mystery Radio for another year, and also,, The biggest cost to me is not the stream, or the licensing, its the cost of all the new or old-new to me Music I have to buy at local record stores. I cant base it on charts or do a real mainstream Format, because I have to buy everything as I see if for sale in stores, sso most of it is compilation mix CDs,, or have DJs like KDM and DJ Perry do specialty shows. I was doing real good for awhile when I changed names to MegaMix 96 and had KDM doing full time PD-MD and Mixshows, but I ran out of my 10 slots all the time,, Plus my modem kept dropping out every 10 minutes, and some dude in florida named Dispota or something like that threatened to sue me saying he had trademarked the MegaMix 96 name. So the Mystery Lives in with now 30 listener slots, and hopefully 2011 I can try to be on 24/7 with less PC and ISP issues. As for the PD at Hot 96 I would still love to put together something for you,, but i dont have the best voice for radio, and I cant mix,, But you should talk to KDM because his style fits the format of your station HOT 96,, which has a Freestyle, Euro, Hands Up Booty Bass, Breakbeat feel to it, with some street feel.. I highly recomend KDM for a show on Hot 96.
 
I can understand what you mean about purchasing for back catalog, when I was originally switching to the Hot 96 name on the Pirate station (it was Party 98, and then I moved frequency), I was doing solid old school, and I spent a ton of money on old vinyl and CD's; luckily, here in Portland we have a great chain of used record stores who sell vinyl dirt cheap, and I spent hours digging through the vinyl.

I was able to come across gems like the original White Label of Company B's "Fascinated" and tracks like Gypsymen "Hear the Music" or NTB's "Intimate Strangers" (which was huge on Hot97 back in the day!) It was a lot of fun doing the research, and I still a 4 inch binder filled with old charts/playlist from Hot103.5/97, Power106...etc. Not to mention countless hours of airchecks. I spent hours editing 12" versions to exactly copy the Latin Rascal mixes heard on Hot97, and in the end..

nobody listened. Even my wife hated the sound because it sounded "too 80's."

So I started adding newer music, and eventually, most of the older stuff was filled away.. I still drag it out every now and then, and last year I spun at a few small retro-parties, but for the most part, the music is lost to time.
 
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