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Programme Schedule

November 24, 2024   Station News

We have recent­ly changed our broad­cast­ing hours, but that has not affect­ed the sched­ule for our orig­i­nal pro­gram­ming, which remains unchanged. Here a list of shows, days and times. All times SLT/Pacific:

MONDAY
Off the air

TUESDAY
Off the air

WEDNESDAY
Start­up 3 AM approx
Fea­tured Music (one of a wide selec­tion of gen­res) — All Day from Startup
The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton: how human cre­ativ­i­ty forms our cul­ture — Every four hours from 4 AM
Where Have You Been?: Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin dis­cuss things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid — 12 NOON and 4 PM

THURSDAY
Fea­tured Music ENDS: 3 AM Approx
Tarot @ Teatime: Dr Hon­ey Heart dis­cuss­es a card from the pop­u­lar Waite-Smith deck, its mean­ing and inter­pre­ta­tion — 12 NOON and 4PM

FRIDAY
ZBS Radio The­atre — the lat­est episode in a thrilling adven­ture ser­i­al from ZBS Media — 12 NOON and 4 PM

SATURDAY
Start­up 3 AM approx
Fea­tured Music (one of a wide selec­tion of gen­res) — All Day from Startup
The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton: how human cre­ativ­i­ty forms our cul­ture — Every four hours from 4 AM
Where Have You Been?: Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin dis­cuss things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid — 12 NOON and 4 PM

SUNDAY
Fea­tured Music ENDS: 3 AM Approx
Tarot @ Teatime: Dr Hon­ey Heart dis­cuss­es a card from the pop­u­lar Waite-Smith deck, its mean­ing and inter­pre­ta­tion — 12 NOON and 4 PM
Close­down 9 PM

THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH
The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal — Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores songs, sto­ries and lore from  the world of musi­cal the­atre - 2 PM Avail­able on Mix­cloud after ini­tial trans­mis­sion.

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Broadcasting Hours

November 24, 2024   Station News

Lis­ten­ers may have not­ed inter­rup­tions in our broad­cast­ing and a move away from our 24/7 sched­ule, begin­ning in late Octo­ber.  We val­ue our loy­al lis­ten­ers and want to let you know what occurred, and what can be expect­ed mov­ing forward.

In Sep­tem­ber and Octo­ber, a sharp and unex­pect­ed rise in lis­ten­ers sig­nif­i­cant­ly increased our lis­ten­er­ship hours, which would nor­mal­ly be a Good Thing. How­ev­er, it increased to a lev­el that was finan­cial­ly unsus­tain­able with our lim­it­ed income. We took tem­po­rary mea­sures in order to avoid incur­ring addi­tion­al costs. To remain with­in our bud­get, we no longer broad­cast on Mon­days and Tues­days for the time being, and are focused on air­ing our orig­i­nal series, whose sched­ules remain unchanged.

“What are the var­i­ous costs you incur as an inter­net radio sta­tion?”  We pay stream­ing audio serv­er fees, of course, among oth­er tech­ni­cal costs. Because we believe that musi­cians should be paid when their work is broad­cast, Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — unlike many oth­er inter­net sta­tions — also pays music licens­ing fees. These fees are cal­cu­lat­ed based on our total lis­ten­ing hours — the more peo­ple lis­ten, the high­er the fees.

We are com­mit­ted to con­tin­ue oper­at­ing com­mer­cial-free, rely­ing on spon­sor­ships and dona­tions to meet our costs. We hope that you will con­tin­ue to lis­ten to the sta­tion, enjoy our orig­i­nal pro­gram­ming and our eclec­tic mix of music. We are con­tin­u­ing to mon­i­tor and ana­lyze sta­tion sta­tis­tics to plan for the future, and we hope to be back to 24/7 oper­a­tion in the New Year.

If you would like to sup­port the sta­tion it will help us return to the 24/7 sched­ule that has been our norm since we began broad­cast­ing in 2021. Please vis­it the web site at vcradio.org and sim­ply click on the “Donate” but­ton, top right of any page. Or vis­it our office on the Not­thund region and become a Spon­sor, Friend or Patron (see those pages on the web site for details).

Thank you for listening!

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New Series: Where’ve You Been?

February 3, 2021   Programming

Join Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/Second Life Time (8pm and mid­night GMT) for Where’ve You Been?  — our new series that goes out and about in Sec­ond Life, find­ing inter­est­ing places to vis­it and fun things to do.

We’ll usu­al­ly cov­er one attrac­tion in a show, but as this is the very first episode, we’re cov­er­ing two! There’ll be a new episode every cou­ple of weeks.

Note that episodes will not start until the track play­ing at the top of the hour has fin­ished, so the actu­al start time of the episode may be a few min­utes after the hour.
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