"I Still Get Demented" Moves to Sundays (June 11, 2010)

Enter David Tanny and his longtime Internet radio show.

San Diego's own "I Still Get Demented" radio show hosted by Tanny has taken over the vacated Sunday night space long occupied by the Dr. Demento show, which has exited terrestrial weekly broadcasting of his two-hour shows.

In the early 00's, Dr. Demento was still with On the Radio Broadcasting, had national sponsors, and was heard on as many as 20 stations on the Internet according to krellan.net, an independent site for keeping track of what station feeds to find the Dr. Demento show on.

Then problems with AFTRA royalties on streaming commercials and the RIAA cracking down on radio stations that stream to get them to pay higher royalties began to seal the doom of the Dr. Demento show as many radio stations quit streaming their entire stations altogether. As few as three streaming affilliates remained at the end of 2002.

Also, at the time, most streaming radio stations got so overwhelmed with server requests when Dr. Demento came on that many others including myself were shut out trying to log into a stream that had no more open servers for streams.

I listened to Dr. Demento on the Internet since KSCA went Spanish and The Flash (now defunct) dropped his show, sending me and many fans to the Internet to get demented since early 1997, an eternity that's the equivilant of sending your child to kindergarten and reaching college as of early 2010.

Dr. Demento managed to get his show on XM Radio for two years in 2003-2005. Around that time, he moved his show to his own Talonian Productions company.

At the end of 2005, his show lost national sponsors. Then in 2006, Dr. Demento's show decided to make the streaming affilliates no longer stream his show and make listeners pay $2 to stream a low-quality stream of his show on demand at his website.

For years since then, listeners who used to listen to his show on the Internet began to dwindle, leaving only those who lived within the signal range of his affilliate that could listen to his show for free. As of this year, his annual Demento Society Membership kit requests have tumbled, and The Loop dropped his show last month.

During the course of the year, Internet listeners could get demented for free from alternative sources such as Captain Wayne's themadmusicarchive.com, which has gotten as busy as during the heydays of the Dr. Demento Show during the Internet days eight years ago. There's also dementiaradio.org, streaming many dementia radio shows and music.

And, there used to be dfsxradio.com streaming shows and music until it folded in 2007 due to financial difficulties. After reorganizing, the dfsx stream was relaunched in 2008, and the "I Still Get Demented" show was resurrected in late 2009 after it disappearred when dfsx shut down its stream in 2007.

dfsxradio helped launch the weekly DT20 show where Tanny continued it on the madmusicarchive.com after dfsx stopped streaming until the end of 2007. DJ Particle hosted the show since early 2008.

Meanwhile in 2010, dfsxradio changed its name to ifunnyradio.com, a much easier to remember name, and reformatted the "ISGD" show to include the weekly top 10 dementia requests of the week beginning in early 2010.

The Top 10 was a weekly tradition of the four hour live Dr. Demento show during its years on KMET through early 1983 (Dr. Demento continued as a two hour show on KMET through Feb 1987, then moved to KLSX after KMET changed formats). When Dr. Demento launched his radio show in July of 1974, there was a Top 10 weekly feature, but later on, he changed it to the Funny Five where it was featured most every week during his syndication years until the end of 2007. (The Dr. Demento Show was not in syndication from Feb 1977 to Feb 1978.)

"I Still Get Demented" began on dfsx in 2003 and was heard most weeks until mid 2007, then was revived in late 2009. It was heard on Monday nights for the most part during its entire run while Dr. Demento was heard on the Internet and the world on Sunday nights.

Now that Dr. Demento's show has moved to on-demand Internet streaming where fans can pay to listen to his show anytime and any week, the time has come to finally upgrade "ISGD" to a weekly Sunday night slot.

Beginning with the May 29, 2010 edition, the weekly airings of the "I Still Get Demented" show that used to air on Monday nights, are now on Sunday nights, and streaming for free, and now on its own dedicated "I Still Get Demented" channel listed here:

http://www.live365.com/stations/classicweird?play

"ISGD" is heard weekly in a 96kbps feed, and is distributed by live365, licensed by ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC for streaming copyrighted music.

The ISGD channel has room for five non-VIP listeners at a time. When those get full, listeners who want to hear the show need to go to live365 and sign up for a monthly VIP membership in order to listen even when all streams are full, but as an incentive, live365 will hold its commercials from NAPA and other sponsors that pay for the free stream.

The novelty, dementia and comedy showcase of songs, sketches, and parodies, has made its move to Sunday nights from Monday nights. The Saturday morning airings will continue.

The I Still Get Demented channel can be heard by clicking on the link http://www.live365.com/stations/classicweird?play

"ISGD" will not be available on a podcast. Due to copyright issues, the show is streaming only.

Listen to the ISGD Show

Saturdays: 7am and 10am ET, 6am and 9am CT, 4am and 7am PT
Sundays: 7pm, 10pm, and 1am ET, 6pm, 9pm, and MID CT, 4pm, 7pm, and 10pm PT

Comedy artists who perform funny music, skeches, stand-up, and parodies are welcome to submit their works to host David Tanny by e-mailing him, or sending a package (mp3 rips encouraged for faster response) to David Tanny, iFunnyRadio, PO Box 19569, San Diego, CA 92159.

The "ISGD" channel can also be found on the website http://www.ifunnyradio.com/ where it also features a regular random IFR playlist channel, so listeners have two channels to choose from.

Listener donations are helping to support the radio station and its two feeds by going to the http://www.ifunnyradio.com/ to send in cash donations to help pay live365 the fees to keep the streams going and to keep the rest of the world demented.

And Tanny guarantees, the show stream will not be blacked out while "ISGD" is on!

"I Still Get Demented" Looking For Affilliates (June 11, 2010)

For now, "I Still Get Demented" will air only on American-based radio stations (commercial and non-commercial) that stream on the Internet at least all over the U.S. (Some owned by companies such as CBS Radio black out their stations' feeds for listeners outside the U.S.)

Affilliates that carry "ISGD" will be listed on the ifunnyradio home page, along with the days and times that they air.

Radio stations that wish to carry "ISGD" should contact Tanny by mail at: David Tanny, ifunnyradio, PO Box 19569, San Diego, CA 92159-0569.