Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Cream WRVU, 'Violations of Good Taste' and ~ORE~ Theatre Intangible's New Format
Posted by Steve Haruch on Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:00 PM
In case you missed Liberadio(!) the other day (it was 7 a.m., after all), they had two Vanderbilt Student Communications board members on the show--Kevin Leander and Vanessa Beaseley, both faculty. As you might imagine, they answered questions relating to the recent "kerfuffle" involving the removal of community DJs from the station and the new cap on non-affiliate involvement. Leander, the chair, said there were "two main goals" the board was looking to address: "a type of realignment" to increase student involvement and "issues around liability." You can listen to an archive of the show here.
As community DJs have lost their shows on WRVU, some have been looking for other outlets.
The Chris Crofton Show, of course, has taken up where the ousted The Best of Bread left off, and now, in podcast form, calls Nashville Cream home. The Nashville's Dead crew are looking into a similar arrangement for A Bit Stranger. Another show going the podcast route is Tony Youngblood's ~ORE~ Theatre Intangible, a showcase for experimental improv, which was removed from WRVU for a little show called "Get It on With Dave Cloud." If you know anything about Mr. Cloud, or have ever gotten unsolicited sex advice from him at a bar, you can probably imagine why feathers got ruffled. If not, here's a bit from the institutional rebuke Youngblood received for the episode:
The violations of good taste and community standards are too numerous to count, but, just to name a few, there were instances of a caller talking about being pregnant despite only having sex "in the back door", callers who appeared to be masturbating while Mr. Cloud read his erotic material on air, a caller asking about their yeast infections while Mr. Cloud asked if there was a foul odor emanating, mention of the naked, nubile young women who all wanted to talk to the DJ, and many many more violations.
Youngblood recounts his side of the whole sordid tale, including more of the email exchange (excertped above) between him and GM Mikil Taylor over at the new Theatre Intangible blog, where you can also check out the show in its new digital podcastic incarnation--no bleep button required!
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angie's beloved "cat beast party" show has a new home and time, too. cat beast party is now on wrfn (radio free nashville) saturdays from 1-3pm beginning this weekend. the signal is weak, but they have several online listening options including itunes support. you can even listen to the station live on your iphone if that's your thing.
nashville mixtapes has applied to wrfn and will also have some kind of podcast in january once the show's new benefactor figures out copyright issues. and how to do a podcast.
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Thanks for posting this. I was there from day one when Tony got booted off WRVU. I had been doing shows with him since the beginning of ~ORE~ in Nashville. I was at this 'taboo' show that got him kicked off; and I e-mailed Mikil and Jim Hayes and spoke personally for Tony as a friend, colleague, and fellow musician. He was riding the delete button like crazy that night in an attempt to bleep out ANYTHING even slightly questionable. I myself was surprised at some of the things he was cutting out. My e-mail full of valid point after valid point fell on Mikil's deaf ears. I think he's just a self-absorbed *bleep* who is taking his little bit of power and throwing it around. He needs to get over himself.
Mikil = Chris Carroll's whipping boy. Yes sir Mr. Carroll, I'll take care of it.
Hi Chris, thought you didn't care, quit looking, we all know you're looking.
Wasn't the issue with ~ORE~ that the Vandy officials (Mikil, Jim, etc.) were listening to the archived stream to find out what was said, when the archived stream does not "bleep" any of the things Tony bleeped on air? As in, despite all the awful FCC-breaking stuff that was in the archive for that episode, none of it was actually aired to the public, so no rules were truly broken.
Yep, I remembered correctly. See below:
~ORE~ Theatre Intangible was banned from WRVU for last week’s show “Get It On With Dave Cloud.” The show featured legendary Nashville performer Dave Cloud playfully flirting with callers as a live band accented his spoken stylings. In short, it was a brilliant show. WRVU strictly enforces a rigid policy on sexually-suggestive material. To play it safe, I “bleeped” multiple sections of the show as they aired (we have a three second air delay).
The next day, I got a letter from the general manager, informing me that I was no longer welcome at WRVU. I later learned that he had listened to the RealAudio archive of the show, which bi-passed the delay equipment, therefore also bi-passing all my bleeps and exposing the show for all it’s raw glory. He heard what the radio audience didn’t hear. When I pointed out his mistake, he refused to take the evidence into account. To this day, no one at WRVU has made any attempt to obtain a broadcast version of the show to prove what was really played. They’re acting like the key piece of evidence is immaterial.
And I've had the theory long before Carrol wrote that email that got posted in the Cream comments that community DJs were getting kicked out because Mikil / Jim / Carrol were pissed off and afraid of us because of what happened with ~ORE~ and Chris Crofton. That is the entire reason why all of this is happening, to anyone wondering. I don't have any hard feelings towards Youngblood or Crofton, because neither of them did anything wrong enough to deserve getting kicked off air, and it wasn't them but their listeners who decided that spamming the aforementioned people's inboxes with profanity would be a good idea. But it is happening because of what happened earlier this year with both of them.
in case anyone's been following this: https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?alertId=397&pg=makeACall&JServSessionIdr004=mixxzalnp3.app245b
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