WHAT'S GOING ON (at the end of August)

Monday is the last Monday of the month, which means it's trivia time!  KJRW provides one last music category (Family Values) at the Shadowland Pub Quiz.  Come out and play the final KJRW crafted audio round Monday night at 8, where Oregon meets California in West Seattle.

Some of you took the challenge to listen to KJRW for ONE hour.  Consequently, listening time increased 15% in the past couple of weeks.  Hooray!

A little background on measuring listening:  Before the time of internet radio, TSL (Time Spent Listening) was measured by AQH (Average Quarter Hour).  If you listened to a station from 9:01 to 9:14 (13 minutes), the station would receive a rating based on 1 quarter hour.  If you listened to that station from 9:09 to 9:18 (9 minutes), the station would receive a rating based on 2 quarter hours.  You listened for a longer amount of time in the first case, but the station got a higher rating in the second case. This is why you never used to hear commercials at :15, :30, and :45 past the hour.  

With Internet radio, specifically Radionomy (our web host) listening time is measured by the hour.  It doesn't matter when you hit that play button, you have to stick around for at least an hour in order for your time to count.  If you listen for 55 minutes, it's as if you didn't listen at all.  It's not measured.

We appreciate whatever amount of time you spend with KJRW, but it only counts to Radionomy if you spend at least an hour at a time.

You have about a week left to listen to your new wave faves during New Wave Summer on KJRW.

All Request Fall begins September 5th!

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the End of July)

It's the last Monday of the month. That means KJRW provides the music round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz! Come Out and Play at the corner of California and Oregon in West Seattle at 8 p.m. Celebrate the last month of New Wave Summer by naming that New Wave tune in the audio round.

Yep, there's just one month left of New Wave Summer.  Get the T-shirt before it leaves the KJRW Corner Store.

And there are only two months left in our contract with Radionomy.  We're going to need a huge increase in listening to stay online past September.  So listen early and often! 

Folks in the U.S., Germany, Canada, France, Spain, Poland, U.A.E., China, Italy, U.K., Greece, and Israel spent the most time with the station during the past month.

If everyone that checked out the station during the month of July had stuck around for at least an hour, KJRW's listening time would be at 100%.

Would you do that?  Spend just one hour a day with KJRW? 

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of 2017)

Hello and welcome to 2017.  Kinda funny how we just wrote last week about the semi-constant threat of deletion from Radionomy.  They did just that 5 hours into the new year.

Thanks to Dan the Man at Birch Street Radio, we had a Plan B.  When we thought Radionomy might remove KJRW in October, Dan suggested we copy our audio.  

KJRW - West Seattle is back on as of tonight!

And KJRW provides the musical picture round at the Shadowland Pub Quiz Monday night!

Get back Under the Covers with KJRW now:  http://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/kjrw-westseattle

WHAT'S HAPPENING (at the end of August)

Last Monday is a couple of days away.  KJRW provides the Picture Round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz.  It's Concert Tees!  Here's a sneak preview:

Shadowland is located at the corner of California and Oregon in West Seattle.  Come Out and Play this Monday at 8 p.m.

There is only about a week left of New Wave Summer.  Catch it before it goes away.  

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WHAT'S GOING ON (in the middle of June)

We're a couple weeks into New Wave Summer on KJRW.  Lots of Bowie, B-52's, Depeche Mode, The Cure and more mixed in with the Alternative and Punk Rock.

This weekend, take advantage of the Had A Dad's Day Sale at the KJRW Corner Store.  Get up to 30% off clothing with code APPAREL30.

And as always, KJRW brings you the music round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz the Last Monday of the Month.  This time (June 27th) we will be there LIVE and IN PERSON!  Join us at the corner of Oregon and California in West Seattle.  Enjoy happy hour food specials throughout the quiz and happy hour drink specials starting at 10 p.m.  Win free drinks and crap from our studio.  Come Out and Play at 8.

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of May)

KJRW is now enjoyed on almost every continent on the globe!  Tops in listening were:  the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, Brazil, France, Belarus and the U.K. 

In fact, folks are spending the most time listening to KJRW than ever!  We met our goal for April with about 1700 hours.  We would like to see 2 thousand hours for the month of May.  Tomorrow is our program director's birthday.  A really wonderful birthday present would be the greatest listening time in the station's history.  

Listen to KJRW 

KJRW provides the picture round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz tomorrow night at 8, where California and Oregon meet in West Seattle.

The Grand Giveaway continues on KJRW in May.  Email kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com to enter.

Get ready to dive into NEW Wave Summer in June...

WHAT'S GOING ON (In the middle of January)

We're halfway through what may be the last month of KJRW on Live365.  The web site could pull the plug on all personal broadcasting on the 31st.  Their press release* is at the bottom of this post.

In the meantime, KJRW is working on building a new music library on Radionomy.  You can listen to this work in progress here:  http://listen.radionomy.com/kjrw.  There is a FREE App for Radionomy that is available for you to listen on your phone.

This is possibly also the last month of trivia at the Shadowland Pub Quiz.  Please catch what could be KJRW's final appearance at the corner of California and Oregon in West Seattle on Monday, January 25th.

Your favorite songs playing on KJRW right now are:

1. Date Rape - Sublime
2. When I Come Around - Honeyblood
3. Ruby Soho - Rancid
4. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
5. Love Song - 311
6. You Are My Sunshine - Screeching Weasel
7. Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
8. Everybody Knows - Concrete Blonde
9. My Sharona - Veruca Salt
10. Clampdown - Clash

As you can see, more than half are cover songs on the list.  Get Under the Covers with KJRW on Live365 the rest of this month... and maybe next month on Radionomy!

*For 17 years, Live365 has offered small webcasters the opportunity to stream music and talk content, providing an alternative distribution channel for diverse, quality content on the Internet in a legally responsible way.

Recently, the Copyright Royalty Board, the governing entity for establishing the sound recording royalty rates that are paid to copyright holders, has published the new rates for 2016-20. The previous provisions for small webcasters to opt for a percentage of revenue model were not renewed. The current provisions end at the end of 2015. The absence of this license will make legally streaming copyrighted musical content prohibitively expensive for many small to mid-sized Internet broadcasters. Live365 relies on this license for many of their broadcast partners and, as such, has hard decisions to make regarding their future in the streaming industry.

Future of Music Coalition CEO Casey Rae made the following statement regarding the CRB ruling:

We are concerned, however, that there does not appear to be a distinction in rates for small commercial webcasters. Digital music benefits from diversity, and services with more modest operations often help developing talent and niche genres find audiences while contributing to the overall revenue pool. If there isn’t an option for new entrants to perform music from a broad range of artists, we may end up with a less diverse digital landscape.

Two weeks ago, Live365 faced an additional blow, losing the support of its investors who have helped the company with its mission for over a decade. The company was forced to significantly reduce staff and is now actively looking for partners to help continue the service into 2016. At this time, Live365 is planning to keep their stations active while getting the word out about this investment opportunity. With nearly two decades of Internet streaming experience and thousands of paying customers, this could be an ideal situation for a company looking to diversify into streaming audio.

CEO N. Mark Lam has begun initial discussions with possible business partners as the company looks to new options in the new year. Dean Kattari, Director of Broadcasting for Live365 said “The true value of Live365 lies in it’s diversity of content – it’s a sanctuary where you can hear music and other content that it so unlike the template broadcasting that is heard on most terrestrial radio. These stations are the hard work of real human beings who use Live365 to share their vision with the world. It’s a home for musical discovery because many of these stations play emerging artists that terrestrial stations are reluctant to take a chance on. It would be a great loss for this to all go away.”

WHAT'S GOING ON (in the middle of December)

Midway through December, KJRW is back in the top 20% of the stations streaming on Live365.com.  People are spending more time with us, listening to all the cover tunes.  Your favorite songs currently are:

1. All I Want - Offspring
2. Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
3. Imagine - A Perfect Circle
4. Come On, Let's Go - Girl in a Coma
5. Scoff - Nirvana
6. Friend to Friend in Endtime - Lungfish
7. Ghost Town - Specials
8. Porch - Pearl Jam
9. Clampdown - Clash
10. Plowed - Sponge

Watch this space for the big list of all your favorite songs of the year, the Top 115 of 2015 later this month.  KJRW adds Punk Rock Christmas tunes to the mix this week.  

FYI, since Last Monday falls between Christmas and New Year's this month, our guest round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz is postponed until Monday, January 4, 2016.

WHAT'S GOING ON (In the middle of November)

There are only a couple weeks left of ALL Request FALL on KJRW.  Here are the current most requested songs:

1. Halloween II - Misfits
2. My Hero - Foo Fighters
3. Celebrity Skin - Hole
4. Porch - Pearl Jam
5. Howlin' For You - Black Keys
6. Waiting Room - Fugazi
7. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
8. I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are - Runaways
9. Breathe - Prodigy
10. Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers

Remember to join us the last Monday of the month (November 30th) at the Shadowland Pub Quiz.   The trivia questions and Happy Hour food specials start at 8 p.m.  Win FREE drinks and more, where Oregon meets California in West Seattle.  There's NO ENTRY FEE, so Come Out and Play!

KJRW's 5th year online ends in a couple weeks.  You can help keep us online with a donation.  We begin our 6th year with your favorite feature, Under the Covers!  Punk Rock versions of Pop songs.  Punk Rock versions of Classic Rock songs.  Punk Rock versions of -- Punk Rock songs.  Get Under the Covers with KJRW this December and all winter long!

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of November)

 

 

Hey, look at all the folks who dressed up in costumes for the Halloween themed Shadowland Pub Quiz!  It was a fun night of thrills and chills. One trivia team answered all of the questions correctly in the KJRW round.  Scott M.X. hosts the quiz every Monday night at 8 p.m.  KJRW is there the last Monday of every month.

There were over sixteen hundred visits to the station page in October.  Hope you enjoyed the Great PUNKin Tunes as much as we did.  Your favorite songs of the month were:

1. Clampdown - Clash
2. What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks
3. Suburban Home - Descendents
4. It's A Shame About Ray - Lemonheads
5. When You Find Out - Nerves
6. Change the World - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
7. One More Minute - Authority Zero
8. We Care A Lot - Faith No More
9. Song 2 - Blur
10. Personality Crisis - New York Dolls

People listened the most in the U.S., Canada, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Spain, Mexico, Sweden, Germany, France and Angola.  Inside the U.S., listening was highest in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Tampa, Detroit, Kansas City, Chicago, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C.

November is the last month of our fifth year online.  You can help keep KJRW online with a donation.  It is also the last month of ALL Request FALL.  Get your requests in now while you can at kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.

WHAT'S GOING ON (In Mid-October)

We're midway through October and ALL Request FALL on KJRW.  The most-requested songs currently are:

1. Season of the Witch - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
2. All Apologies - Nirvana
3. Indecent - The Spunk Lads
4. Wanted To Be Your - Spoon
5. Empty Head - Screaming Females
6. Dangerous - Big Data
7. Paul Revere - Beastie Boys
8. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
9. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion
10. Quitter - The Rhones

Listen for the Great Punkin Tunes the rest of the October.  Get the KJRW Halloween T-shirt. 
And join us in costume THIS MONDAY at the Shadowland Pub Quiz.  Scott M.X. is Quizmaster Extraordinaire at Shadowland  every Monday night.   Shadowland is located at the corner of  California and Oregon in West Seattle.  Come Out and Play one of the rare INDEPENDENT trivia nights with NO ENTRY FEE.  Don't settle for a nationwide chain-quiz!  The Shadowland Pub Quiz is written fresh every week here in West Seattle.  KJRW presents the music question round the last Monday of each month.

WHAT'S GOING ON (In the middle of September)

ALL Request Fall is underway at KJRW.  You may email your song requests to kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.  The most requested songs playing on KJRW now are:

1. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
2. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
3. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
4. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion
5. Change the World - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
6. Human Fly - Cramps
7. Know Your Rights - Clash
8. Tighten Up - Black Keys
9. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
10. Crimson Wave - Tacocat

Our rank among the thousands of stations on Live365 is climbing higher and higher.  We've been made a favorite station several more times.  KJRW has picked up a few more followers on twitter and facebook.

We designed a Special Edition T-shirt with tfund.  It is not available in the KJRW Corner Store.  It is only available here.  10 shirts need to be pre-ordered in the next 10 days, or the shirt will not get printed!  It's only $20 and part of that will go to keep our little radio-station-that-could chugging away. Please order a shirt today!

Last Monday is a little over a week away.  KJRW hosts the music round at the Shadowland Pub Quiz on the 28th at 8 p.m. in West Seattle.  This month's category is Alternative Rock Resumes.  Musicians who have been members of more than one successful band are highlighted.  Come Out and Play!

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of September)

Monday night's Shadowland Pub Quiz was rockin' and raucous. Rico walked away with the fan-made KJRW T-shirt for correctly guessing the lyrics: "You said irony was the shackles of youth" belonged to a song by R.E.M. (What's the Frequency, Kenneth?). We thank Scott M.X. for letting us invade his quiz show the last Monday of every month.  Scott hosts the Shadowland Pub Quiz in West Seattle Monday nights at 8.

The station's rank climbed a few notches in August. We hit the milestone of 70 thousand visits to the KJRW station page at Live365.com.  There were almost 2 thousand visits in August alone. VIPs spent more time with us in August than in the previous 3 months.  KJRW was made a favorite station the most times since January.  The Facebook page got a bunch more likes.  And we gathered another batch of followers on Twitter.

People were listening the most in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Belarus, Mexico, Italy, Japan and Belgium.

Inside the U.S., people spent the greatest amount of time with KJRW in:

• Seattle, WA
• Kansas City, MO
• Detroit, MI
• Philadelphia, PA
• Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
• Cincinnati, OH
• Atlanta, GA
• San Francisco, CA
• Albany, NY
• Boston, MA

The songs getting the thumbs up currently are:

1. Know Your Rights - Clash
2. Friction - Television
3. Don't Go - Yaz(oo)
4. Corduroy - Pearl Jam
5. Kiss Them for Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
6. Tighten Up - Black Keys
7. Maxwell Murder - Rancid
8. Ven Cerca - Girl in a Coma
9. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
10. Seven Nation Army - White Stripes

It's the last week of New Wave Summer.  Grab your T-shirt before it leaves the KJRW Corner Store.

ALL REQUEST FALL begins after Labor Day. You may make requests by clicking the talk bubble on the station page, or by emailing kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.   You can even request your own band's music to be played if you include an mp3.

WHAT'S GOING ON (in the middle of August)

Halfway through August, the station page at Live365.com has been visited 800 times. Your favorite songs playing on KJRW currently are:

1. Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Maxwell Murder - Rancid
3. Know Your Rights - Clash
4. Pronoia - Strange Wilds
5. Got the Time - Anthrax
6. Radio - New Hell Republic
7. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
8. Mountain Man - Crash Kings
9. New Wind - 7 Seconds
10. Let's Dance - David Bowie

There are only a few weeks left of New Wave Summer.  Get your T-shirt before it leaves the store!

And we are 2 weeks away from LAST MONDAY.  KJRW hosts the music round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz the last Monday of the month.  Shadowland is located at the corner of California and Oregon in West Seattle.  If you are in the area, come out and play!

FRANCES FARMER WILL HAVE HER REVENGE ON SEATTLE*

KJRW once again gives you a trivia night in West Seattle!  Beginning next Monday, July 27th, Program Director Julie will be presenting the music round of the Shadowland Pub Quiz the last Monday of every month.

Scott M.X. Turner hosts the Pub Quiz every Monday at 8 p.m. at Shadowland Bar and Restaurant, located at the corner of California and Oregon in West Seattle.  Scott says, "Come on down to one of Seattle's increasingly rare INDEPENDENT pub quizzes and trivia nights.  Don't settle for a nationwide chain-quiz available at 30 Seattle area bars.  The Shadowland Pub Quiz & Trivia Night is written fresh every week here in West Seattle."

It's FREE to play!  So mark your calendar for Monday night at 8, and brush up on your current events and New Wave music knowledge!



*Here's some trivia for you:  The title of this post is the title of a Nirvana song about actress Frances Farmer.  Shadowland is the title of a book by William Arnold about actress Frances Farmer.