Carl and Rory Take 2?
Rory and I are going to be hosting a new Internet Talk Show someday soon, but we're getting a bit hung up on the issue of when. So, let me describe the show and maybe you could provide us with some feedback?
While .NET Rocks! is very cool, its audience is limited to .NET developers and managers (for the most part). We want to do this full time eventually, and that means we need to set our sights a bit higher in terms of our content and target audience.
This new show will either be one or two hours long, and will be of interest to thinking adults. I don't know how else to describe them... people who read? people with more than one brain cell firing at any one time? Basically, a general interest talk show. Of course, it will be funny. Public Radio with a pulse? Bob Reselman's show and the show with Dan Appleman on PC security are closer to what we want to do here.
I don't want it to be Oprah, though. So, we're not going to talk about the things most talk shows are focused on. Instead, we hope to expose listeners to interesting people (authors, scientists, technologists, innovators, or anyone whom we think would be a good guest).
We want to make it a showcase for musicians and bands that you'd NEVER otherwise hear, so we'll have a mechanism for submitting original music. It's possible we will have a live band in the studio, even if once in a while.
Rory is going to do some classic Rory bits, and we will most likely involve the talents of some local comedians and writers.
Of course it will be extremely interactive. We will not only take questions the way we do during .NET Rocks! but we'll have a dynamic website where people can chat. We might take snapshots during the show and post them, or have the guest send us photos that we can put up.
We'll start out streaming on the Internet, and if XM Radio or even radio radio wants to pick us up, that would be great. But, like all other Carl enterprises <g> it will start small and grow.
Got a good idea where we're going with this? Good.
Now, I think it would be very difficult to get a big listenership during the day. It's not like Imus or Howard Stern that construction workers have on while they're hammering out Jersey Barriers, it's interactive. It's hard to do it in the evening, because that's a pretty small window when your audience is worldwide.
Dan Appleman was thinking this would be a good midnight show. I like that idea, but I'm a night person. Not everyone out there is. In fact, I think we're in the minority.
I was thinking Saturday afternoon. That's when I personally love to listen to the radio while I'm doing laundry, washing dishes, cleaning up, or tinkering with my computers, or just sitting and listening.
What do you think?
When is the best time for us to broadcast it?
One hour or two?
Are we smoking crack?