Premiere date announced for The Glowing Dial!

Hi folks!

At long last it looks like we are finally ready to do some new episodes of The Glowing Dial! It's been a long hiatus, 7 years! The hiatus was due to my health and personal problems. Things are stabilizing now and we're ready to go.

One change, hopefully temporary. Steve "Archive" Urbaniak is currently unavailable to do shows as he's having to devote all his time to a job search. The Macomb Daily, a local newspaper that he was working at decided to let him go recently after many years of employment. Steve is a substitute teacher as well but that's not keeping the lights on for him so job searching he goes. 

We wish him all the luck we can muster in his job search and hope that he is able to return to the show in the near future.

All is not lost because our good friend Stu Chisholm has kindly offered to be my co-host until Steve can return. Those of you who have listened to the show in the past might remember Stu as he sat in with Steve and I on a few shows.  Our chemistry is a good one on the mic, not quite as silly as what Steve and I had but close.

Aside from The Glowing Dial now being available as a podcast, we will also be carried by Jerry Haendiges' Olde Tyme Radio Network! We also have plans to return to Stay Tuned America when they return to the internet airwaves in the near future! 

The new episodes of Glowing Dial are set to premiere Sunday, April 6, 2014! There will be a new show every three weeks. Even though you can get the show automatically downloaded to your favorite podcatcher program, you will also want to check out Jerry Haendiges' Olde Tyme Radio Network because aside from our show, there are several other fine OTR shows there for your enjoyment including one hosted by Jerry himself.

So set your sites on April 6, 2014 for the return of The Glowing Dial! All this information will be on our web page at www.glowingdial.com.

See you on the radio!
Big John

We're now on ITunes!

Good news! The Glowing Dial Podcast has been accepted by ITunes and is now available there. All the episodes we have archived are there. The new episodes (when we get started again early 2014) will be posted there too.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/glowing-dial-big-john-steve/id780602945?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

All episodes now posted!

Good news! I now have all episodes of The Glowing Dial posted! We decided to go with the Poderator.com method of posting our shows as podcasts. We deleted our podOmatic.com account because, as I said previously, we could not afford a paid account that would handle all our shows.

The shows can be found by going to glowingdial.com and clicking on Shows. Here you will also find the addendums we did for some of the shows. Addendums being audio files that were related to that particular show but not edited as part of the show proper.

We are still not without our problems however. One problem is that our Archived Shows xml feed does not seem to load properly in Internet Explorer but looks fine in Firefox. I have no clue as to why this is. One other problem that perplexes me concerns the embedding of audio files on our webpage. I refer to the aforementioned Addendums. I wanted to post these on our Shows page at glowingdial.com but every code variation I tried did not show up on Firefox at all; started playing the audio file automatically on Chrome (despite the code telling it NOT to autoplay); played all the files at once on IE!

I wanted to embed those files so that, again, the page would have a more modern look to it. I ended up simply putting hyperlinks to the Addendum files, old fashioned but seems to work.

Please let me know how these links and the xml feed work for you and whatever browser you are using. 

Thanks!

More shows encoded and posted

Just got the rest of the YUSA shows encoded and posted over at our Poderator.com account. That's episodes P69 thru P88. Also got a few of the longer NET shows posted, more to come.

I don't think we're going to post any more to podOmatic.com unless enough donations come through to cover its cost. We'd need about $25 a month to cover the amount of stuff we have to post.

Go to http://www.glowingdial.com/shows.html and click on the Poderator.com link to see the latest.

More Archived Shows Posted

I just posted some more of our archived Glowing Dial shows over at our Poderator account (not podOmatic) .. up to show # P68. Now I have looked all over and could have sworn I had shows # 69-88 encoded and stored on dvd or cd-r's .. somewhere! Nope, I guess I had never gotten those particular shows encoded .. ever! I'm going to have to get out the Mini-Disc player (we were recording our shows direct to that format at that time) and fire up Audition 3 and see if I can get them encoded. Give me some time on this please. Updates will be posted here.

Another show posting method

I am testing another method of posting out shows aside from podOmatic.com. This one is called Poderator.com and it's free and works something like Podcast Generator did, using OUR storage and bandwidth. It looks a lot more bare bones compared to PG and POM but it's free!

I have changed the "Shows" link on our webpage to provide links to both for you, the listener to test and comment on.

Our "web guy" continues to work on the PG problem so that's still a third option for us.

So go to The Glowing Dial Page and click on "Shows" to test the two methods we have available currently.

Donations Requested

Glowing Dial fans:

As has been said before, we are planning a revival of The Glowing Dial and we are also slowly uploading our archived episodes.

This isn't going to come for free. We have some services donated to us already but we need a little more help on that front. We're asking you to donate what you can to this effort by going to http://www.glowingdial.com and clicking on the PayPal Donate icon which you will find at the bottom of the menu to the left of the page.

We're also looking to sell some commercial time on The Glowing Dial, so if you have a company or concern that you think our audience will like, please contact me at glowingdial@wowway.com. Selling commercial time is something new to me but I am thinking of 30 second spots, I guess they could be longer if need be. At this point, I have no idea on how much to ask per spot, maybe some one experienced in this can offer me some tips. I WILL NOT interrupt the otr shows we play! The spots would be played in between the otr shows. Steve and I could also read your copy and put our own spin on it for you too.

Once again, we have no definite return date for the show, we're still sorting things out on this end after our long hiatus.

Thanks for your attention, 
Big John Matthews
co-host, The Glowing Dial