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“Quite possibly the Internet's finest oldies netcast show..." Robert Fontenot - Oldies.About.Com
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Michael Godin
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“Quite possibly the Internet's finest oldies netcast show..." Robert Fontenot - Oldies.About.Com |
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10 Years of Memories |
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Here we are 10 years
of Treasure Island Oldies! It has become one of the longest
running radio shows in the world on the Internet. I can vividly remember how it all came about. I had done some music consultation for Vancouver’s oldies station, 650 C-ISL and had the occasion to meet Tom Lucas, one of the DJs at the station. He told me he was doing a show on the Internet called the Worldwide Retro Rock Request Show on the Dowco Entertainment Network, working with Hugh Dobbie, who started the company as an Internet Service Provider. Hugh and I met in late 1996 or early 1997 and talked about me bringing another show to Dowco. I came up with the overall concept for Treasure Island Oldies, based on the notion of “if you were stranded on a desert island, what music would you want to hear?”. Thus, Treasure Island Oldies, a show featuring a wide variety of oldies from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ’70s, plus songs rarely heard anymore. So on May 4, 1997, Treasure Island Oldies, the Home of Lost Treasures was born. It started initially as a three-hour show in the afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m. Pacific time. Within a relatively short time, it expanded to four hours occupying its current time slot for the live show from 6 to 10 p.m. Pacific time. Now those were definitely what I would call the early ‘pioneer’ days of Internet radio. I often think of the connections in those days along the lines of some string and two tin cans; if you didn’t hold the string taut, you’d lose the ‘signal’. Similarly, there was no broadband then, you had to have a modem that connected via dialup at 28.8k. Many people still only had 14.4 modems, and were unable to listen, while a few had the “Cadillac” of modems at 54k. Throughout the ensuing years high speed bandwidth was introduced resulting in a greater audio fidelity with virtually no dropout or buffering. I am honoured to have some Treasure Island Oldies listeners still with us from almost day one. And since then we have become established with a listener base from all over the world. Just have a look at the early participants on our recently introduced World Map to see that listeners are in all corners of the world. I’d like to take a moment to say thank you to some folks who have been integral to Treasure Island Oldies over the years. Thanks to Tom Lucas for the introduction to Dowco, and to Hugh Dobbie for believing in the potential of Treasure Island Oldies. We are still working together after ten years, now under the brand Mediaontap and Dowco’s online presence was changed to INSINC (Interactive Netcasting Systems Inc.). In addition, John Doyle at INSINC has been tremendously supportive and our main technical troubleshooter. In 1999, my good friend Jim Amidei became my webmaster and not only looked after the weekly updates for the website, but also created a complete new look a few years later. Scroll down to see two screen captures of the site. In the summer of 2005 Eddy Fisher took over as webmaster and in March 2006 we introduced a whole new website utilizing the graphic created by artist Ali Knight. Tom Locke, a long time friend of mine, has been involved with the show since we became involved with Sorrells Pickard Gourmet Peanut Butter in 1999, when he created the Pick of the Week. After Sorrells’ untimely death, we re-purposed the Pick into our weekly Moment In Time. Big thanks to Tom for writing this weekly feature week after week. I would also like to extend a big thank you to you, the Treasure Island Oldies listener. This is OUR celebration together. Happy 10th Anniversary! |
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I’d like to thank Lee Feldman and Blast Radius for developing the very first website for Treasure Island Oldies, which was based on sheet music of a song called On Treasure Island Oldies, recorded by Gale Storm. Blast Radius went from a tiny company of three young guys working out of the living room of a shared house, to becoming one of the most successful web site developers in the world, working with some major A list clients. | ||||
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In
1999 my good friend Jim Amidei took over as webmaster and gave a
facelift to the existing site. And in later years, created a
whole new site that looked great and was well received by the
Treasure Island Oldies listeners. Thank you Jim! |
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Treasure Island Oldies, the home of lost treasures © 1997 - 2008 Michael Godin Management Inc. All rights reserved. Original Artwork "You Me And The Big Palm Tree" © Ali Knight |
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