I was treated to an amzaing tour of Sirius Satellite Radio Headquarters by Steve Leeds, and I brought you, the gentle audience, along with me. This is part one of two parts.

Show Notes Follow:

– [ ] Yeast Radio for 05.25.05
– [ ] Production Note: Sound quality is a bit fish-tank like
because I had to use major noise reduction and wanted to get
this out to you asap so I didn’t want to spend a lot of time
– [ ] Soundseeing tour of Sirius Radio HQ, Rockefeller Center
– [ ] sirius.com
– [ ] Tour was given by Steve Leeds with much help from all of the fine
programmers, announcers, managers and administrators from sirius
– [ ] Opening Song/Chris Zeeche “On the Road with Madge”
– [ ] Bloated in elevator
– [ ] Former control room/ Howard Stern’s future studio
– [ ] Recording Studios/Coldplay coming to perform today
– [ ] Bandwidth compensation – interesting
– [ ] operations/ generatirs\
– [ ] over 40 studios at hq
– [ ] studio visits- state of the art
– [ ] all glass
– [ ] dot com money put to use
– [ ] Steve likes Madge’s yogurt
– [ ] Visit with announcer Tom Marrera (sp?) – jazz channel
– [ ] hear Tom announce for Planet Jazz – m-f channel 70 – mornings
– [ ] little tiny room
– [ ] String Cheese
– [ ] software announcer uses looks like any audio software such as
audicity
– [ ] Computer=god (puts it all together)
– [ ] Giant ipod in the sky
– [ ] software called “Profit”
– [ ] Listen to how it will sound to the listeners
– [ ] keeps logs of songs to pay BMI/’ASCAAP
– [ ] satellite vs. terrestrial
– [ ] most shows work like tom, but some are live
– [ ] Maxim Radio – locked door- what do they do?
– [ ] View of Times Square
– [ ] NFL Channel
– [ ] Shade 45- home of eminme – 24 hour- fully staffed channel
– [ ] Mitch – oversees all production & Kid Kelley over all CHR
channels (cuntemporary hit radio)
– [ ] Kid is on Channel One!
– [ ] The Radio Chick same channe as podshow
– [ ] Gay Channel
– [ ] Dish TV is partner with Sirius
– [ ] Master control room
– [ ] last stop before uplink
– [ ] Music Director guy
– [ ] uses protools
– [ ] Programmers and Coordinators
– [ ] Refrigerators = little announcer booths… look like pods.
– [ ] Rich & Jose – Programmers of Rock/Metal, etc.
– [ ] Anne Coulter is a cunt
– [ ] Nuns & Good vs. Evil
– [ ] More people really quickly
– [ ] Selector is programming software
– [ ] more channels – programmers etc
– [ ] live from the plane
– [ ] closing song- same as before- zeeche
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