Dr. Demento Show Producer a Troll (September 27, 2007)

This is lower than a radio station selling pixels to readers on a website.

Arthyr Chadbourne, the manager of Talonian Productions, which syndicates the Dr. Demento Show, is posting announcements in rec.music.dementia that people should send money to the radio stations so they can afford the show.

This Chadbourne guy is the clueless twit who doesn't seem to understand why his actions at Talonian are causing people to lose interest in their syndicated Dr. Demento Show and the radio station affilliates to rebel and to stop carrying his show.

To pay a fee to carry a radio show is no big deal. To not be allowed to stream what they pay for to their Internet audience, which is technically part of their overall listenership, is a big deal to the stations and the fans.

The last ten years of not having Dr. Demento on any station in San Diego has contributed to the decline of our American culture in Southern California as radio stations flip to Spanish-language, hip hop, soft modern rock, dance-less CHR, and post-grunge rock formats with no hint of novelty or funny songs within the playlists.

During the past ten years, I've began listening to the Dr. Demento Show streams on the Internet, For most of 1997, I listened to the show at 3am Saturday Mornings on WMVP in Chicago, an ungodly hour as at that time, it was before mp3s and podcasts could make delayed listening to that radio show possible.

Over the past few years, I listened to the stream on various other stations in cities around the nation and on various days and times.

As of January 2006, Talonian Productions, which can't seem to sell national spots for the Dr. Demento Show anymore, decided to do a dasturdly deed by forcing radio station affilliates who stream to pay $10,000 a year for the right to stream the Dr. Demento Show on their Internet feeds. If they don't want to pay, Talonian would stop sending out the new shows to their affilliates.

Some stations have stopped streaming altogether. Some stations have shut off the stream during the two-hour window but aired the show on its terrestrial signal. Some stations have stopped carrying the show. Some stations are running old shows from 1-2 years ago because they still stream and Talonian got pissed off about it and are no longer sending shows to the affilliates.

Talonian has gone after every affilliate and has effectively shut down the Dr. Demento Show from the free Internet. Is Arthyr Chadbourne a lunatic or what!

Meanwhile, in 2005, Talonian has also gone after The Mad Music Archive, which once house every Dr. Demento Show episode, and forced them to take down the shows. In its place, themadmusicarchive is producing new two-hour shows called "The Mad Music Show" using the same novelty music that Dr. Demento used. That website provided listeners with a choice of 24kbps or 128kbps streams.

In its place, DrDemento.com started carrying the select episodes of the shows but with a reduced quality of recording, no download (just stream on demand), and for a fee of $2 a show.

So, Mr. Chadboure, you are now one step above Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler as the being amongst the worst of the scum that ever walked the earth. You're worse than Clear Channel. You're the ultimate Cheap Channel!

You took away the free Dr. Demento streams from the radio affilliates and unauthorized websites for what? You want me to pay $2 for a crummy fidelity show that I can't download and keep on my computer for private use? Hey, Arthyr Chadbourne, what is this bullshit you're pulling on me?

I'm not going to pay any of my hard-earned money for a show that is of poor fidelity quality that I cannot download, and I refuse to pay some multi-hundred dollars a year for some cheap quality Demento Online Club memebership for the privilege of listening to subpar-quality shows.

There are alternatives to the Dr. Demento Show. You can listen to dozens of funny song show podcasts at the redesigned DFSX Podcast Section right here: http://www.dfsxradio.com/9100.htm. At one stop, you can listen to every funny music show podcast except Dr. Demento. You can even listen to songs from Bob Rivers, American Comedy Network, The Fump, and download episodes of Dr. Floyd. And, yes, you can listen to my show, the Mad Music Dementia Top 20 Show, as well as the Mad Music Show, Manic Mondays, The Podsafe Comedy Countdown, and more shows to satisfy your hunger for demented music.

The way things are going, The Dr. Demento Show is no longer the king of dementia. There's so many free alternatives that are produced for far less money available that this has rendered the Dr. Demento Show obsolete. Far few people care to pay for something that they can get for free. The production for the Dr. Demento Show is no better than most of the slicker-produced funny music podcasts, plus the other shows play more variety of funny music artists than Dr. Demento plays, even when they're just one-hour show podcasts.

And with all those free alternatives available, Arthyr has the gall to post on rec.music.dementia that we should send money to the radio stations? We, as in, the readers? I don't think so.

Here's the first one by Arthyr under the e-mail awc99@verizon.net: "We should send money to WLVQ and KRDE so they can afford the show. It's amazing that stations that size cannot afford to satisfy their listening audience and then blame the production company .,, , amazing!"

A reply from Tim:

"awc99, I recognize your name, Arthyr Chadbourne, manager, Talonian Productions. I'm puzzled by your use of 'we'. Are you saying we, Talonian Productions should send money to WLVQ and KRDE so they can afford the show? Would that mean the stations should get the show for free/batter, to do with so they can make money, both from terestrial broadcast and internet narrowcast, while Talonian gets to use the product starting the Monday afterward? Yes, I can see radio stations blaming the production company when it (the production company) with nearly no notice changes the cost of the show to the station, be it in dollars or demands of time. When a station has to choose to scramble to sell, or scramble to update their technology, I can see why they would choose dropping the show and put up with a few complaints for a few weeks. Swat the mosquito that is make a nuisence of itself, and don't put up with the next round of grief six weeks down the road or one year down the road."

Arthyr posts again:

"maybe we should give money to KRDE so they can afford to stream the show."

Reply from David Tanny:

"Who's "we"? I'm not in that "we" group."

From Wayne:

WPYX paid the extra fee to stream the show, yet was only sent one show out of five because they streamed it. So why would any other station bother to pay for streaming rights if they still won't get the show if they stream it?

From Peter:

"It's nice of you to come here and make fun of Dr. Demeto's fans. Does he know that you are doing this?"

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