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Your Own Morning Show Website |
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Written by Chris Boylan
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If they fight for their own site, compromise. The best thing about the
internet is that anyone can buy a domain name
for $7/year. Let them get http://wackymorningshow.com and
forward it to http://yourradiostationsite.com/wackymorningshow.html .
Every time someone types in wackymorningshow.com, they will find
themselves at the morning show section on your site. That way, they
get their “own site” but it is still a part of the station’s web
presence. Domain forwarding usually comes free with any domain
purchase.
If you’re a morning show or an ambitious jock, buy your own domain name
and have it forward to the respective page on the station’s site. That
way, when you get fired or move, you just redirect it to your new
station and people will be able to follow you throughout your career.
Left alone, we will still prevail
Now, if you’re a morning show with an unresponsive PD, or the PD search
has been dragging on for months (I have been there multiple times),
just start your own site. Even if you don’t know HTML and web design,
start small. Get your own free blogger account, and forward your
domain name to the blogspot page.
After every show, put up links to the stories you talked about,
pictures of your street guy in a Speedo at the grocery store – whatever
listeners can point to when they want to tell other people what they
missed by not listening in that morning. It will take just a few
minutes each day, and your fans will be able to be involved with the
show the 20 hours per day you’re not even on the air - as unbelievable
as that is.
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is the Executive Producer and Co-Creator of Preppermint. He also writes a column on radio and the internet for AllAccess called "The Net Untangled" For a profession, he is an idea man who wondered why you needed to email a web guy to put your prep on your website. Then he wondered if he was able to concentrate hard enough to grow his toenails faster. He can. 
is Senior Editor and Renegade of Funk at Preppermint. Amber got started off in radio as most do, driving around a van and slinging T-shirts. After locking herself out of said van, she was tagged as management material and promoted to Morning Show Producer in Detroit. From there it was just short steps to Traffic Chick and then Morning Show Chick. She has also been Midday Girl and Night Girl. She can work and work it at any time of day. She currently writes, edits and submits material for Preppermint and works at G-105 in Raleigh to keep her mad skills fresh.
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