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The History of Cinematic Sound Radio
CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO began in September of 1996. At the time I had about 50 – 60 soundtracks in my collection and I felt that I had enough material to produce an entertaining and varied two-hour radio program, just as long as I purchased a new release every week to keep the show fresh. At the time the radio station was only broadcasting on cable FM, which meant you had to attach a coaxial cable to your FM receiver in order to hear the station. In those early days, my audience was limited to about 5 or 6 loyal listeners. The only real exposure the show got was when the broadcast was pumped into in the local pub, The Arnie. There, the four large speakers would blast the wonderful sounds of John Williams’ STAR WARS, James Horner’s WILLOW, and Jerry Goldsmith’s FIRST KNIGHT to the lucky listeners as they enjoyed an afternoon brew. Once, I stirred up a huge Star Wars debate while playing my first of many Star Wars tribute shows. The entire bar was buzzing about their favorite characters, their favorite movie, and favorite lines.
Soon enough the station received approval from the CRTC to broadcast on the FM dial in May of 1998. At the same time, my slot was changed from Friday’s to Saturday’s. For the next eight years, CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO would be on the air between 12 pm and 3 pm every Saturday afternoon.
THE FM YEARS The FM years were highlighted by one particular broadcast on May 1st, 1999. It all began in late April when I received not only the “Duel of the Fates” radio single from THE PHANTOM MENACE by John Williams but also the finished album! I had only planned on playing the radio single but when I phoned up the people at Sony Classical on April 29th – two days before by broadcast – and asked them about the playing the album in its entirety. They kindly said that they sent it to me so I could have the world broadcast premiere of the album. Nothing much else was said. I said thank you, they said goodbye and I had less than two days to promote arguably the highest profiled program I would ever produce. If I can remember correctly I posted a few comments on the Film Score Monthly and Filmtracks message boards but I had no idea that theforce.net picked up the story from FSM and published it on their site. That’s when the trouble started. Soon, I started to receive a barrage of emails from fans asking if the program would be available live on the internet. Live streaming was something relatively new at C101.5 and we only had enough bandwidth to host 60 concurrent listeners. Unfortunately, that was a fact I didn’t know about until after the program was aired.
When I arrived at the station on Saturday morning to put the final touches on my show prep the DJ on before I informed me that the phone had been ringing off the hook with people from around the world calling in to make sure they could hear the program. As I got closer to show time I personally received 3 calls; one from the Philippines, one from Germany and one from Massachusetts. The people on the other end were having issues connecting to the C101.5 server. I had no idea that the server was hemorrhaging at this time but I calmly told the callers to refresh the C101.5 web page and to keep trying to connect.
