In addition to listening to the Bob Keeshan interview today, I've also been amusing my ears with Shokus Internet Radio, which is the new online station being set up by my friend Stuart Shostak. I mentioned this the other day here but that was before I'd spent some time listening to some of the "test" shows he has playing in rotation, in advance of the station's official launch. Stu has a couple of goodies there, especially The Soundtrack Show, which oughta interest the kind of person who comes to this website.
I'm fairly new to the world of Internet Radio and I'm fascinated by it. There are channels that play rock or folk songs of showtunes or classical jazz…but there are also "niche" channels, like several that only play music heard at Disney theme parks or old Jack Benny radio shows or things like that. So I've been sitting here today, working on a script but with various Internet radio stations — mostly Stuart's but also a few others — on Live365, a network I'd never explored before. There's some very pleasant listening to be found there. You can tell that some of the stations are "programmed" by people who really know and are passionate about the material they present.
The only downside is one you'll all understand. Usually, I work with the TV on. So every time the phone rings today, instead of muting the sound on the Internet radio channel, I reach for my TiVo remote and hit "pause." Which doesn't do a damned thing.