There was only really one job
to do today and that was record the first of the brand new run of The Sunday Alternative. I couldn’t really leave it any
longer as I want it to drop tomorrow lunchtime so that perhaps people can
listen to it with their Sunday lunch, although it is only going to be about
half an hour long. Maybe families can gather round to listen to it during their
starter? Although I can tell that I am going to miss the immediacy of live
radio, the plans that I have for the name are very exciting so I will try to
put those feelings aside and look forward to the next stage. It’s funny to
think that the video version of The Sunday Alternative
is basically an idea that I had in 2007, but nobody really understood what I
was trying to do. Anyway, for now it’s all about the audio version which I have
advertised as fortnightly but am tempted to go weekly until the video version
is ready to roll out.
A radio hour is actually only
58 minutes, and it isn’t easy to make a show last exactly that amount of time.
Even in live radio it isn’t always easy to get it right, as I have often
started playing a four minute song when I have one minute left, or the other
way round which is worse. A luxury of recording a podcast is that it doesn’t
matter how long it goes on for. I’ll be trying to keep the podcast down to
about half an hour so that they can be listened to on an MP3 player on the way
to work, (if you save it for Monday that is, or are pulling in some overtime).
The video version will be about the same length as nobody in the world will go
over the half hour time limit when it comes to watching an online video. If I
was to start a business making adverts to put on YouTube before the main video
starts, I would provide every bit of important information in the first five
seconds so that as soon as the option to skip the advert comes up on the screen
it will be too late as you have seen the advert.
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