FolkBlog

It’s the 12th day of Christmas today, aka Epiphany, the day that the church celebrates the arrival of the Wise Men with gifts for the Baby Jesus. It also marks, at least in my estimation, the end of the holiday season, and thus I feel it necessary to announce the end of broadcasting for my Christmas station, Online Folk Christmas.

I’d like to thank all of those who listened to Online Folk Christmas. I hope it brightened your holiday season and entertained you. I’m still somewhat overwhelmed by its success - the station capped out on the number of listeners throughout the late holiday season, and in just over a month achieved a monthly total listener hours total (TLH) of over 16,000 at one point, about 4 times larger than anything the Online Folk Festival has achieved in its 5+ years of broadcasting. Much of that success can be accounted for by the fact that the station was listed during the weeks before the holiday on iTunes, which is like winning the lottery for Internet broadcasters. Since I don’t have iTunes installed on my computer (it’s a system hog of gigantic proportions for my “little computer that could”), I found out when someone posted a list of stations on iTunes on his website and posted it to the live365.com broadcasters message board.

The station is paid for through January 8, and I think that it will only be available to VIP members of live365.com until I re-activate it next holiday season. It’s been a fun ride.