PAST ANNOUNCEMENTS

Covering the year 2007 Part 2

Quick Notes

dfsxradio.com gets a podcast makeover
some dfsx (91 section) pages will be folded into davesfunstuff
Last regular format of dfsx comedy is July 11th
Last ISGD Show airs July 9th
Last Kahnman Comedy Corner is July 11th
DT20 Countdown Shows will be heard on themadmusicarchive.com beginning July 13th
Last Best of Mad Music Show is July 10th
Last Best of Manic Mondays (two episodes) is July 11th
New format for DFSX begins July 12th. DFSX will end either July 15th or October 8th depending on whether Live365 is in business or not.

New Format for the Mad Music Dementia Top 20

Beginning with the July 13th edition, the Mad Music Dementia Top 20 show will be a two-hour show. This show will be produced with breaks, meaning, that each segment will run about 13 minutes apiece on average. If a terrestrial radio station runs the station, in theory, they can pad the show with nine 6-minute breaks to pad the show out to a three-hour time slot.

The MMDT20 Show will have a total of nine segments.

Also changing is the way the votes are tabulated. The plus entries are gone, meaning, that if a write-in makes #1, it is #1 with no ties, period.

DOUBLING PASSWORDS: Also, since the show is going to a podcast, it's so easy to listen to the show that the doubling password will disappear.

Other changes: the New Strokes segment will be abbrieviated, but most of the new songs can be heard in future editions of the ISGD show. Also abbreviated is the "Demented Resurrection Zone", where we can play as many requests as we can fit in the time alloted.

Some weeks, the songs from 11-20 may be abbrieviated if necessary to make room, especially if they're songs that have been featured numerous times already.

Kahnman's Comedy Corner Gets a Podcast

Check out the Kahnman page on dfsx for the details. Click on the PODCAST link to see where it will be.

http://www.kahnman.dfsxradio.com/

Also read details on the Kahnmanapalooza taking place in Long Beach on July 25th.

Mad Music and Manic Mondays Podcasts

Though there will be no more DFSX to air the "Best of" compilations, you can still hear all of the old and new episodes of the shows by going here.

http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/

The dfsx "Best of" series are redundant and are not needed. Look for the "Mad Music Dementia Top 20" Show podcasts on the madmusic site above beginning July 13th.

dfsxradio.com Gets a Makeover

The website is no longer emphasizing streaming. Instead, it will emphasize podcasts, playlists, and more.

Also, a new section "Other DFSX Shows" has been created. It gives you the history of all of the other DFSX-produced shows that once aired on the station, as well as playlists from the Vintage Dementia show through the DFSX Time Machine.

DFSX To Sign Off July 11th as Comedy Station

Due to declining listenership, DFSX Radio will be signing off as a comedy music station after July 11, 2007.

With rising CRB rates driving our streaming provider live365 dot com to go either out of business on July 15th or raising the cost of our streaming package to unaffordable levels, as well as declining hours spent by listeners, the programming of dfsxradio.com will cease to have a streamer after the final edition of the "Kahnman's Comedy Corner" airs on July 11th.

After peaking with over 5,000 hours of listeners a month in December of 2006, DFSX was well on its way to having 50,000 hours a month by June of 2007. The hourly count stands at a paltry 1,900 hours for June alone.

With a lack of a needed level of VIP listeners (300 needed to break-even, current total is only 15), the programmer and bankroller of dfsx felt it was time to sign off as a comedy music station.

After seven years, DFSX should have grown into a top 100 live365 broadcaster. Instead, it's stalled outside the top 1000.

After July 11th, DFSX will switch to an unknown format until the stream is gone either July 15th when Live365 shuts down, or continue until mid-October when the P1000 package expires.

"It's time for me to sail off into the sunset like Gene Autry did in 1996," says David Tanny, who launched DFSX in February of 2000. "DFSX has opened up the genre of dementia to all kinds of interesting subjects that have gone ignored and unnoticed, even playing novelty songs that never got any airplay on the terrestrial airwaves."

Says Tanny on signing off, "With my streaming expenses currently losing over $35 a month, and the fact that there isn't enough people spreading the word about DFSX, and not enough VIP listenership, which helps pay for the streaming expenses incurred (only $3 in June), I took a long hard look at the future and felt it was time to go in another direction in my life."

Reasons Tanny, "The few that were spreading the word about dfsxradio helped prolong its life, but it's apparent that not enough of the fans were telling their workmates and friends to listen, the DFSXradio merchandise on Cafepress (now shut down) featuring bumper stickers and buttons have only $10 in sales in the past two years it's been in existance, not enough artists are telling their fans to listen to the station and vote for their songs that are on the DT20 ballot, and in short, it's just plain too much work for too little reward in numbers, hence, it's time for me to free up some of my time for other things in my life."

"Also contributing to the ebbing of listners are competeting websites like myspace, itunes, download sites, wi-fi, broadband, other streaming internet stations, HD radio, and satellite radio, stuff that didn't exist in 2000 when DFSX began," continues Tanny. "By comparison, there was once a lot less competetion when Buffy the Vampire Slayer wasn't yet in reruns!"

DFSX has broken many artists through the ramdonized playlists as well as the specialty shows. One notable artist that got its debut on DFSX was Lemon Demon, played in a 1994 episode of "The Kahnman's Comedy Corner," which will continue on as a podcast run independently, as well as "Dave's Gone By", which will have its final airing as a triple-header on July 7th.

Other shows such as the "DT20 Zone" will be revamped as a plain "DT20 Countdown" podcast, while the features "New Strokes" and "Demented Resurrection Zone" will either be incorporated into the podcast or cancelled. This is provided if a new home can be found since Tanny can't afford the copyright fees to ASCAP reportedly in the hundreds of dollars.

Cancelled shows include "The Humpday Special", "DFSX Time Machine," "Best of the Mad Music Show", whose original podcasts were derived from can be downloaded at http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/, as well as "The Best of Manic Mondays".

Also cancelled is "The Steve Jarrot Show," which will continue to be carried on other affilliates. DFSX will link to the website http://www.stevejarrott.com for the listener's convienience.

The long-running "I Still Get Demented" radio show will have its final airing on DFSX July 9th, which will be the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley.

After that date, "ISGD" will be open for syndication possibilities on other streamcasters as well as podcasters.

"ISGD has been our flagship radio show since January of 2003", says Tanny. "I'd like to see that continue on other comedy music radio stations and podcasts at least in rerun form."

"The numbers for the specialty shows except for the DT20 zone were averaging around the 5-9 listener mark, which is too low to sustain a streamcast and my energy involved in creating them," says Tanny. "The lone exceptions were the Kahnman and DT20 Zone shows in the 15-25 range."

DFSX signed on in February 2000 when it was just a randomized playlist full of songs and no specialty shows. Specialty shows began in December of 2002 when a pilot called "The DFSX Fun Show" aired as a one-time shot, which evolved into the "ISGD" show the following January.

During that time, the Kahmnan show hosted by Tyrone Kahn aired within the "ISGD" show in 2003, then was spun off into its own show in January 2004. During the time since December 2002, DFSX ran marathons of Halloween music, Christmas and Hanukkah novelties, and counted down the top songs of the past year around New Year's Day.

In its early days in 2001, DFSX was once a duo-cast, running two channels. One devoted to the current novelty hits, and one for the nostaliga hits of dementia. One year, the second channel switched to all demented holiday music, then was off the air a few months later. DFSX ran a solo cast since then.

Powered by live365 dot com back in 2000, DFSX had visions of creating more specialty channels devoted to holiday music, reruns of ISGD, and comedy talk sketches and stand-up, but due to the cost of the packages offererd by Live365 that began in mid-2001, those plans were put on hold until the target VIP count of 600 listeners would be reached. The highest it got was 20.

When the Copyright Royalty Board set the high rate of streaming copyrighted music retroactive to the beginning of 2001 in mid-2002, Live365 began charging for streaming their services to pay the costs of royalties due to SoundExchange. With the new rising rates retroactive to January 2006 due on July 15th, Live365's bill for paying SoundExchange is a prohibitively high $7 million fee, which is so high that the company will have to shut down and declare bankruptcy, or continue on but charging the streamers higher costs per package to cover the copyright fees.

With the rising costs of streaming not keeping in line with the number of VIP listeners, many thousands out of over 10,000 radio stations using Live365's services are estimated to either go independent, shut down their stream, go underground using a streaming service that goes under the radar of SoundExchange, or exist as a podcast.

DFSX has exposed many dementia and non-dementia artists including the aforementioned Lemon Demon, plus Drunk and Disorderly, Hyde Tanner, Deirdre Flint, The Melonheads, Organ Failure, Frozen Inertia, Switchblade Kittens, Ken Turetzky, Richard Cheese, Whitie McWhiteivich, The Weasels, Alex Whitmore, Brett Eidman, The Morells, Automatic Pilot, Wendell Ferguson, Mr. Plow, Big & Rich, Swinging Erudites, Ruby Tunes, Throwing Toasters, The Dude From Mars, Marc Gunn, No Holds Barred Radio, Chaston and Groditski, Bright N Perri, Hypnotic Clambake, Steve Goodie, Avenue Q, The Blow Kings, Screech and Bif, The Consortium of Genius, Jeff Daniels, Nick Noxious, William Shatner, The Frantics, The Vestibules, The Arrogant Worms, The Worm Quartet, the great Luke Ski, Tony Goldmark, Carla Ulbrich, The Four Postmen, Bob Pyle, Art Paul Schlosser, Ian Butler, Cab City Combo, S'Aint Willy, Russ Buchanan, Fast & Dirty, Mister Joe, Kacey Jones, Man Bites God, Ostrich-Back Riders Hayseed Dixie, Whimsical Will, Raymond and Scum, Sean Morey, the late Logan Whitehurst, The Mod-est Lads, Jim's Big Ego, Jane Hathaway, Dave Blackledge, Glenn Erath, The Kwiffs, KJV Presents, Jimmy Fallon, Dan Orr Project, Donna Kay Honey, Brobdingnagian Bards, Warp 11, Sudden Death, Bob Ricci, Slant 6 and the Jumpstarts, Bret Walton, Phil Van Tee, Dan Hart, George Lopez, David M. Kilgore, Tom Tuerff, Jim Caruso, Larry Weaver, Atomic Jefferson, and many thousands more including, David Tanny, Robert Lund, and Weird Al Yankovic.

DFSX also broke from its dementia genre format to prove that the format is more than a cookie-cutter genre by playing a few mainstream artists, subjects that wasn't known to fit the dementia genre, nostalgia novelty and old time rock and roll music, even disco.

DFSX will continue on as a podcast, but it's likely that it will be a sixty-minute weekly or monthly show depending on interest and subject. The DT20 Show as it is now may continue as a podcast with the lower ten songs played in excerpt mode to save time.

More details to follow soon on the dfsx website http://www.dfsxradio.com/

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