Its usually midnight before I get to sleep most every day so that won't be a big deal here.

Looks like we are going to just stay home. Mrs. Web said she might pick up a couple prime ribs for something a little special.

JD-
It's bowl game heaven! I'll be flipping chanels.

BTW, was that you requesting Dean? I was going to request that one since I hadn't heard it in a while, then suddenly, there it was....Ain't That A Kick In The Head.....

no that wasn't me ray, I thought it was you!! WOOHOO DEAN!!

Personally, I think it's a crime to miss midnight on New Years, so I always do it, even though there have been some years I've needed the aid of coffee.

Like some of the others I'm usually up anyway.  This is my absolute, FAVORITE holiday of the whole year (I guess you could say my year peaks on day one).

I'm already getting excited to make 2006 an amazing year.  Gonna rebound with my businesses and get back to complete self-employment.  I finally have a plan to start working on my retirement savings.  Gonna get in better shape.  There's nothing like a clean slate to excite a young man with a box of chalk in his pocket

There will be some wierdness this year though.  For the past five years I've stopped going out on New Years and always had the folks over.

My Dad would make his famous home-made pizza.  He'd usually be sick around this time of year and never made it till midnight, sometimes he even went home early.  For whatever reason I think EVERY single year he and my Mom would bicker a lot on New Years eve.  Nothing serious, just that annoying bicker older married couples can sometimes do.  In the end they'd go home shortly after midnight and I'd be thinking to myself "why do I bother with this every year, it's always horrible".

This year I'll actually be missing that bickering.  Another reminder that while life goes on after the passing of someone you care about, nothing is ever the same.

BUT, I'm an optimist, and '06 is gonna be a hell of a year!  YOU CAN BET ON IT!

Riggs!

I'd love that we'd build the station big enough provide us both with enough income so we can be full time djs!

JD,

I'm sorry to say, that despite all the enthusiasm and excitement I have building within for '06, this station is not part of it

I hope I'm wrong, and maybe when you and I return to the airwaves in January we'll turn it around, but the rapid decline of listenership in the past two months has really sapped my confidence in this ever being anything more than a very small hobby.

I mean for craps sake, we're talking audiences that are barely breaking the 40's right now!  We were in the 130's three months ago!

Hopefully you can re-inspire me next time you're in to do your show

-- Edited by Jeremy Riggs at 12:04, 2005-12-30

Jeremy,

Can you go back and see the play log from that period? Can you see trends? Maybe it's just a blip on the radar.

Riggs,

I think I may have an idea of the reason for the blip. A huge competitor to internet radio ran a huge promotion with free sign up through december. I won't, obviously, go into the details, but after december you gotta pay if you wanna play. I expect to see an increase in numbers after the new year! No way can we just suddenly have this HUGE drop without reason!

Have you noticed, in spite of the drop, that we've steadily maintained the position of 6-7th hugest 80's category station for live 365?? Other stations must be suffering as well!   

JR, compare the summer and the big numbers to the winter and the low numbers. Other than the season, I can think of one big difference. During the big numbers, you were on the Breakfast Club every day, JD was doing his show every week, things were changing, things were new. But lately, there hasn't been a whole lot to keep the casual listener's attention. The majority of your traffic is from Live365, and the majority of those listeners click on a station and listen to it for a short while and decide whether or not they are going to stay. I'd bet most of them don't come to the website and don't request, and rarely do people read the description that tells them that they can. So, right now, they hear a block of music, just like any other internet radio station, where before, there was actually a live DJ! You discredit it too much, but I think that makes a huge difference.

that HAS to be our selling point LIVE DJS!

I wonder how much renting a billboard would cost....1 well placed billboard, maybe in Times Square....

Hey know what I could do is send out a feeler to the UWM newsrag- see if they'd like to feature a story on the little station that could...them kids need something to interesting to write about for a change...a break from P vs CP.