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- | Astro News Radio is a news corporation operating out of the [[territories: | + | Astro News Radio is a news corporation operating out of the [[territories: |
===== History ===== | ===== History ===== | ||
- | Of the radio companies which operated around Traveller, Astro News Radio started as a council-sponsored community radio program in Unity Prime. | + | Of the radio companies which operated around Traveller, Astro News Radio started as a council-sponsored community radio program in Unity Prime in [[calendar/ |
- | During its flourishing period, ANR was given numerous buyout offers and merger offers by other radio and media companies, but the radio station was profitable enough to stay independent. Astro News Radio branched out into playing music, taking Aleph Cluster' | + | During its flourishing period, ANR was given numerous buyout offers and merger offers by other radio and media companies, but the radio station was profitable enough to stay independent. Astro News Radio branched out into playing music, taking |
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+ | Growing into its current groove that covers all of the cluster now, the scrappy outfit of enthusiast wireless techies and charismatic voices started making moves like a bigger company, making deals on its own terms, taking and leaving the sponsors and advertisers they wanted and the public wanted to hear more of. Despite expansion and rising cash and employees, Astro News Radio doesn' | ||
==== Locations ==== | ==== Locations ==== | ||
- | Currently based out of many stations throughout the galaxy. Their base of operations is in [[location: | + | Currently based out of many stations throughout the galaxy. Their base of operations is in [[location: |
===== Content ===== | ===== Content ===== | ||
+ | Astro News Radio structures its content the following way: | ||
+ | * **News Broadcasts** - Delivered by the primary broadcaster for the hour of broadcasting. All a variety of topics and goings-on are covered. | ||
+ | * **Music** - The bread and butter of the station before becoming a more general radio broadcasting network, Astro plays lots of music from a grab bag of genres. | ||
+ | * Regular Genres include: New Wave, Funk, Jazz Fusion, Pop, and Classic Rock. | ||
+ | * **Chatter-Back** - Occasionally, | ||
+ | * **Interviews** - Astro News frequently invites guests to their station to be interviewed. Whether it's in person, via camera drone, or digital linkage, there' | ||
+ | * **Advertisements** - Interspersed between songs and other features is advertisement. Grants and community donations don't cover all the costs, unfortunately. | ||
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+ | ==== Schedule ==== | ||
+ | The typical schedule for weekday programming is as follows: | ||
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+ | ^ Time (24h) ^ Programming ^ Host ^ Time (24h) ^ Programming ^ Host ^ | ||
+ | ^ 00:00 | Midnight News Update | VP-12 ^ 12:00 | Noon News Update | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 01:00 | Night Owl Music | VP-12 ^ 13:00 | Music On Demand | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 02:00 | Outside Aleph Update A | VP-12 ^ 14:00 | What's Happening In... | Mia Kondo | | ||
+ | ^ 03:00 | Robot Programming | VP-12 ^ 15:00 | The World in Films | Mia Kondo | | ||
+ | ^ 04:00 | The Witching Hour | Mia Kondo/VP-12 ^ 16:00 | Community Hour | Mia Kondo | | ||
+ | ^ 05:00 | Daybreak Music | VP-12 ^ 17:00 | Afternoon Music | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 06:00 | Early Risers | Mia Kondo ^ 18:00 | Evening Talk-Back | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 07:00 | Morning News Update | Dexter Marlin ^ 19:00 | Evening News Update | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 08:00 | The Morning Tunes | Dexter Marlin ^ 20:00 | Outside Aleph Update B | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 09:00 | Morning Talk-Back Radio | Donald Ferris ^ 21:00 | Nighttime Talk-Back | Donald Ferris | | ||
+ | ^ 10:00 | Interviews | Donald Ferris ^ 22:00 | Evening Wrapup | Donald Ferris | | ||
+ | ^ 11:00 | Mid-Morning News Update | Dexter Marlin ^ 23:00 | Night Owl Music | VP-12 | | ||
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+ | ^ | ||
+ | ^ Time (24h) ^ Programming ^ Host ^ Time (24h) ^ Programming ^ Host ^ | ||
+ | ^ 00:00 | Midnight News | Mia Kondo ^ 12:00 | Noon Weekend Update | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 01:00 | Night Owl Music | VP-12 ^ 13:00 | Interviews | Donald Ferris | | ||
+ | ^ 02:00 | Outside Aleph Update A | VP-12 ^ 14:00 | Interviews | Donald Ferris | | ||
+ | ^ 03:00 | Robot Programming | VP-12 ^ 15:00 | Arts Around Aleph | Mia Kondo | | ||
+ | ^ 04:00 | Shell Games with VP-12 | VP-12 ^ 16:00 | Community Hour - Weekend Edition | Mia Kondo | | ||
+ | ^ 05:00 | Daybreak Music | VP-12 ^ 17:00 | What's Hot Around Aleph | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 06:00 | Early Rises | Donald Ferris ^ 18:00 | Evening Interview Block | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 07:00 | Morning News Update | Donald Ferris ^ 19:00 | Evening News Update | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 08:00 | The Morning Tunes | Dexter Marlin ^ 20:00 | Outside Aleph Update B | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 09:00 | Call In Talkback | Dexter Marlin ^ 21:00 | Party All Night | Dexter Marlin | | ||
+ | ^ 10:00 | The Sprint | Dexter Marlin ^ 22:00 | Party Night Radio | Mia Kondo | | ||
+ | ^ 11:00 | Mid-Morning News Update | Dexter Marlin ^ 23:00 | Night Owl Music | Mia Kondo | | ||
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+ | ===== Sponsors, Partners and Competitors ===== | ||
+ | With digital broadcasting, | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Sponsors | ||
+ | * **[[company/ | ||
+ | * **[[company/ | ||
+ | * **[[company/ | ||
+ | * Partners | ||
+ | * **[[media/ | ||
+ | * Competitors | ||
+ | * **[[organisation/ | ||
==== Notable Hosts ==== | ==== Notable Hosts ==== | ||
- | Astro News Radio is known to have have many entertaining hosts in the past. The most notable host at the moment | + | Astro News Radio is known to have have many entertaining hosts in the past. The primary voice of the station as of [[calendar: |
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+ | * **Mia Kondo** - A Hagblood woman in her thirties, having risen into the company from a university intern program during her twenties. A more laid back voice who generally does the interviews with the arts, entertainment and pop-cultural aspects of the news. Her voice is much more soft and laid back compared to the energetic Dexter. She has many interesting and colourful stories about the places she has seen in Sargasso' | ||
+ | * **Officer Donald Ferris, Retired** - An Oddbody expatriate from [[society/ | ||
+ | * **VoiceProcess 12 (VP-12)** - A mobile personal computer box with arms and legs, usually seated in their own room in the Astro News offices away from the rest of the communications infrastructure. VP-12' | ||
====== OOC ====== | ====== OOC ====== |