Listen to Cort and Fatboy live on pdx.fm every weekday morning at 10am.

Miss the live show? Visit www.cortandfatboy.com

Check out Live Wire! on the web: www.livewireradio.org

Take a few minutes to fill out the survey below and we’ll draw one lucky winner from the entries on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 and send them a free 64GB iPod Touch – a nifty little device for listening to PDX.FM (or doing just about anything else for that matter).

NOTE: your email address will remain completely confidential and is only collected for the purpose of notifying the prize winner. Contest ends at Midnight PST on Monday, July 12th, 2010. Void where prohibited by law. You MUST be 18 years of age or older to participate. One entry per person.

THIS SURVEY CLOSED AT 11:59PM MONDAY, JULY 12th, 2010

RESULTS WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON

Distilling a world of information into one formidable hour: Legion of News.

Ignore at your peril.

Beginning Monday, June 21st, 2010 from Noon to 1pm Pacific.

In the meantime, read more about it all at the Willamette Week website.

That means we will not be broadcasting anything new or live from Saturday May 29th through Monday May 31st. We will resume our regular broadcasting schedule on Tuesday morning at 8AM with The PDX.FM Morning Submission.

Have a safe and happy holiday – and don’t drink and drive dammit!

Can’t listen live? Download episodes of In Bed: With Matt and Phil from iTunes

Visit the In Bed: With Matt and Phil website.

Join Robert Wagner, Sabrina Miller, Emily Gibson, and Jay Mackin every weekday morning at 8am for Morning Submission – right here on pdx.fm

The Morning Submission website launches on Monday, May 10th at 8am at www.morningsubmission.com

Follow us on Twitter: @mSubmission

• UPDATE: Missed it live? Listen to the episode here:

WHAT: Bust
A one woman show by Lauren Weedman

WHEN: April 16-17, Doors, 7:30pm/ Show 8pm.

WHERE: The Woods, 6637 Milwaukie Avenue, Portland, OR

ADMISSION:
Tickets are $17 in advance, $20 door
Ticket sales link: www.backfencepdx.com

SPECIAL EVENTS: Two comedy classes taught by Lauren Weedman in the afternoon on Saturday (11:30-2:30) and Sunday (noon-3pm). Saturday: Spinning your Real Life in Comedy Gold. $40 per class, second class to be announced.

MEDIA PASSES: Media passes are available from Melissa Lion, melissa@backfencepdx.com

MORE INFORMATION: www.backfencepdx.com

“Lauren Weedman [is] the funniest woman alive.”
- The Stranger (Seattle)

“breathtaking … a female Robin Williams.”
- LA Weekly

“Weedman… has seemingly swallowed a cast of hundreds.”
- Seattle Weekly

“… excels in its vivid prison segmens and its so-taget but rib-tickling satirical snippets and is on track to be one of Weedman’s best shows.”
- Seattle Times

Monday, April 12th at 10AM … need we say more?

Fourth generation Oregonian Kathleen Bauer was four years old when she began riding cattle horses and going on cattle drives on her grandfather’s ranch in Eastern Oregon. The love for the region that came from that experience was part of the inspiration for starting her blog, GoodStuffNW. “It’s a real gift to be able to write about the things I love,” says Bauer, who began her professional life as an advertising art director. She’s also written features on topics as varied as chicken farmers, the Basque community of Boise, winter farmers’ markets and the cuisine of the Hmong community in the US for the Oregonian’s FoodDay section, MIX magazine, NW Palate magazine, Edible Portland and Culinate.com. Cooking (and eating) and gardening keep her out of trouble the rest of the time, and she likes nothing better than having friends over for dinner at the home she shares with her husband and son in NE Portland.

Breakfast in Bridgetown airs every Friday at 1pm on PDX.FM

Can’t listen live? Episodes are available for download approximately one hour after live airing at breakfastinbridgetown.com

About the show: Call us curious, call us enthusiastic for just about anything local and you get a unique blend. Hosts Emily Gibson & Sabrina Miller take you through the bowels of conventions and events such as the Portland Golf Show, the Gift and Accessory Show, the Bead Show and more.

Listen live Tuesdays at 3pm on PDX.FM

Can’t listen live? Download episodes an hour after they air at conventioncrashers.pdx.fm

Althea Crome

As if the sock knitters from the last episode weren’t enough, Devlyn and Michelle sit down with someone who knits even smaller – Althea Crome, who knitted the tiny clothing for the movie Coraline, has a gallery full of tiny knits and a lot of patience. Knitting in the small since 2000, Althea has continued to mini knitting and intricate color work, all of which is posted on her website www.bugknits.com.

Wednesday, April 7th, at 1pm PST on pdx.fm, Michelle and Devlyn sit down and talk to Althea about how, why, and wtf?

“Movie B.S.” features reviews of new films both good and bad, smackdowns of the bad movies of yesteryear, and a plethora of other movie-related features. All of it is tied together by cavalier banter between Bayer and Snider, who noticed that there was a dearth of cavalier banter on the Internet and sought to rectify that.

Listen to the first episode:

Download audio

Movie B.S. will be available on iTunes starting next week.

Join Sabrina Miller and Emily Gibson as they crash the Silver Classic Car Auction!

Gimme 5 – gimme 5 fiddy5, who got 5 hundred fiddy 5….whew! It’s so much easier to say that than type it out! Join us on Tuesday as we talk to some of the savviest classic car buyers and sellers at the Silver Classic Car Auction that took place at the Expo Center. Oh yeah, we also got to touch some sweet ass cars too! #lamborghini

Ham-Fisted Radio took a breather this week, before we leap into the next phase of G-level Internet stardom.

Starting on March 24th, we’ll be on pdx.fm, every Wednesday at 4 p.m.! This is, we are told, a Very Big Deal. All we know is that the nice man in a hoodie offered us a slot, and we jumped at the chance to join the likes o fCort & Fatboy, Sabrina Miller & Emily Gibson, and Kristin Bowie in this wild new frontier of Internet broadcasting.

ALSO: Tune in to Cort & Fatboy on Monday, March 22 at 10 a.m. for additional Ham-Fisted goodness!

Emily and Sabrina flip to the other side for just a bit and learn about the Zombie Squad and a little about Disaster Preparedness too! We talk to the President of the Oregon Chapter, Ninja Elbow.

Zombie Squad is an elite zombie suppression task force ready to defend your neighborhood from the shambling hordes of the walking dead. We provide trained, motivated, skilled zombie extermination professionals and zombie survival consultants. Our people and our training are the best in the industry.

I’m pleased to welcome Jonathan Maus to the show this week! Jonathan — editor and publisher of BikePortland.org — will join me to talk about the site’s creation & growth, how he pays the bills (I’ll want to hear more about his partnership with Entercom/94.7, for starters) and the challenges he may face straddling the line between objective information provider & passionate cycling advocate.

We’ll be pre-recording on Tuesday afternoon, but I’d love to hear what you’d like me to ask Jonathan — so please post your questions for Jonathan below (or email me at betsy@redoingmedia.com), and join us at 1 pm on Thursday!

…the Man. The Myth. The Legend: RobertWagner himself (or @pdxsucks, as many know him) — the evil genius behind pdx.fm.

(Yes, I’m trying some of that hyperbolic flowery language favored by the Fox Networks of the world. Or else I’m *packaging*. Take your pick…)

While Mr. Wagner continues to protest his inclusion in this merry local media dance we’re playing here & does his best to play the ‘aw, shucks’ card when pressed, I very strongly beg to differ. The guy makes media — even though he doesn’t want that Oregonian article preserved in wood plaque form any time soon. He reports on news every morning on Portland Sucks (raise your hand if you’ve heard of an issue for the very first time while listening to Robert & Sabrina on Portland Sucks each morning at 8 am). He’s building out a whole infrastructure to support local Portland news, information & entertainment — that sounds like a media magnate to me, right? And he’s funding the whole thing out of his own pocket.

Of course, he’s now got a few other “media people” lining up to either say they knew him when and/or are part of the inner circle, attempt to follow in his footsteps, and/or suck up to him in Dyson-esque style.

But he’ll be sitting down with me this week. Yes, me. (That rumor that I have something really incriminating on him? Sheer nonsense…) And we’ll be talking about just how pdx.fm began, where he thinks it can/should go, what he’d like to say to some of those hangers-on, and where he sees the gaps here in the Portland media scene.

Sadly, the show won’t be live — but if you want me to grill skewer lambaste insinuate ask Robert a question, you should either a) add it as a comment to this post (and nowhere else, please), or b) send me an email at betsy@redoingmedia.com.

(And don’t assume that just because he’s providing me a platform — for FREE, no less — that I’m going to go easy on him. For starters, he’s going to have to dial down that whole F-stream a notch or two…)

Do it before midnight tonight. Hell, do it NOW.

Update: Nope, we won’t be able to take questions via phone call during the show itself. Why? We’re pre-taping, that’s why…

“It’s certainly true that not every National Forest is worthy of National Park status, but Mount Hood and the Columbia Gorge are special. These are places of world-class scenic and geological significance, and are of a caliber that is easily comparable to the finest national parks in the country. In fact, they already compete with the major national parks as destinations, ranking with places like Yellowstone and Yosemite in visitation. Mount Hood and the Columbia Gorge have been proposed as a national park before, in the 1890s, 1920s and 1930s. The Columbia Gorge was considered for national park status as recently as the 1980s, when the lesser protection of a Forest Service scenic area was enacted.”

Perhaps this coming decade will see a change in how the area is used and preserved.

Listen to Hike Yeah on Friday, March 26 at 2PM to hear Alex’s conversation with Tom Kloster, the organizer of the MHNP Campaign.

About Road House: The Play

First released as a film in 1989 and starring the late Patrick Swayze, “Road House” tells the timeless tale of a bar bouncer with a mysterious past who lives by his own rules, a small town terrorized by a wealthy senior citizen, a sexy doctor, and karate. “Road House: The Play!” is the magic that results from taking the original film script, putting it on stage, and adding original songs.

Adapted to the stage by Shelley McLendon and Courtenay Hameister.

Starring:

Sean McGrath (Soap Street Theater, Live Wire!)

Michael Fetters (The Auteur)

Ted Douglass (The 3rd Floor, 105.1 The Buzz)

Shelley McLendon (The Liberators, Eastland Academy)

Courtenay Hameister (Live Wire!, True Stories)

Bobby Roberts (Cort and Fatboy)

Jonathan Newsome (Mira Flores)

Nicolas Kessler (The Liberators, Icarus)

Tony Marcellino (The Liberators, The Auteur)

Wm. Stephen Humphrey (The Portland Mercury)

Meagan Williams (Going Girl Scout, Backfence PDX)

Directed by John Breen (The Liberators, Rid of Me)

The Someday Lounge • 8pm
March 19, 20, 26, 27

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Monday March 15th at 1:00PM on PDX.FM Channel Two

Biography

William Peter Blatty, the writer of numerous novels and screenplays, is best known for his mega-bestselling novel The Exorcist, deemed by the New York Times Book Review to be “as superior to most books of its kind as an Einstein equation is to an accountant’s column of figures.” An Academy Award winner for his screenplay for The Exorcist, Blatty is not only the author of one of the most terrifying novels ever written, but, paradoxically, also cowrote the screenplay for the hilarious Inspector Clouseau film, A Shot in the Dark. New York Times reviewers of his early comic novels noted, “Nobody can write funnier lines than William Peter Blatty,” describing him as “a gifted virtuoso who writes like S. J. Perelman.” Blatty lives with his wife and a son in Maryland.

Join me this Thursday, March 11th at 1 pm for this week’s edition of Redoing Media. I’m veering from the usual format (designed to accomodate the day job) to broadcast live from the pdx.fm studios. And my guest this week?

None other than Matt Davis, News Editor of the Portland Mercury. Matt, who also shares his POV on both his personal blog — Matt Davis Opens His Mouth — and on Twitter (as @mattdavis999), is known as a fearless & outspoken critic of Portland’s current Police Bureau practices, among others.

I’ll be talking with him about that quote above & how it may apply the state of journalism here in Portland right now. Where are we? Where do we need to go? How are we going to get there? And since Matt’s got that firebrand reputation working for him, I’m sure we’ll hear plenty about how PDX media producers just aren’t rising to the challenge…!

Join us at 1 pm on Thursday, won’t you? (I may even have the chat box up and working by then…)

Portland Farmers Market is a collection of six urban green markets that operate March through December, serving up to 25,000 shoppers per week.

Hosted by Karen Wells & Erica Matteson

When talking about pregnancy, childbirth, starting a family‚ everyone has an opinion. New parents are bombarded with messages from healthcare experts and professionals, from media and television, from doting friends and family and even from within – each pulling in their own way to influence the decision making process. Where can a mom and dad find the balancing voice?

The Pregnancy Place brings all the voices in pregnancy, childbirth and the first years into one place without judgment, fear or pressure. Hosts and Birth Doulas, Karen Wells and Erica Matteson, bring everything to the table from experts in birthing, practical tips and tools, candid conversations with real moms and dads‚ all in an effort to equip and empower parents to have more satisfying journeys in early parenting.

On The First Episode:

What is a Doula anyway? The Pregnancy Place, on PDX.fm, Channel 2 is hosted by Birth Doulas Karen Wells and Erica Matteson. Join them in their conversations about the benefits and perspectives of Doulas and what they bring to birthing parents‚ perfect launching point for this new show dedicated to being a balanced voice in all things pregnancy.

Download audio

About The Hosts:

Karen Wells has been a Birth Doula and Childbirth Educator for over 10 years. Her passion is giving new moms and dads access to the tools they need to build happy, healthy, thriving families. From an emergency c-section with her first child to a waterbirth at home with her third, Karen has experienced and has learned to appreciate the full spectrum of options in birthing. Her goal is to bring a balancing voice the polarizing effects of differing opinions and encourage parents to find the paths that sooth their families‚ individual needs.

Erica Matteson has worked as a professional birth and postpartum doula for the past ten years, and her goal is to bring families and care providers together in dialog therefore creating better outcomes for the childbearing year. The most empowering thing a mother can feel during childbirth and in those first few weeks of motherhood is to know she has a voice. Being a mother of three boys and experiencing many birth related interventions, Erica can speak to the heart of the matter without being judgmental. She provides information in a non-biased manor allowing each family to find the tools that will support their unique parenting style.

Can’t listen live?

Visit www.exceptionalwomennw.com and download the podcast shortly after airtime.

Friday, March 26th, 2010 at 10AM • PDX.FM Channel Two

Completely self-taught (and an adrenaline junkie), Portland designer Michelle DeCourcy had no idea Norah Jones would wear her dress to the Grammys in 2003. It was one moment in a life fueled by passion, boldness and focus. Those same traits were an important part of her recovery from a rare form of Leukemia — and also continues to drive her love of her work, her family and Portland.

Hosted by Todd Williamson • freerangemeditation.pdx.fm

When I close my eyes, I see my childhood in Africa; wild animals, blankets of stars, clear waters full of fish, and me, lying in the arms of a tree swaying gently in the breeze. Nature caught me in her grip early, and the feeling was unmistakable. In later years, when I found myself in more urban settings, I was always looking for ways to find that same feeling – the vastness, the embrace, the unmistakable feeling of being a part of it. It was yoga and meditation that took me there. With each 30 minute session that we share, I hope that I can help you find your own sanctuary amidst the rapid movement of life. There are stars, wild animals and tall trees in our own everyday world. It is my goal to help you sway in the breeze.

Todd lives in Portland, Oregon and is the co-owner of Om Base – organic free range yoga studio with his wife, Vittoria.

About Dr. Sophia Yin:
A nationally acclaimed animal behaviorist, Dr. Sophia Yin graduated from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 1993 and received a Master’s degree in Animal Science with a focus on animal behavior in 2001.  She is the author of three books, The Small Animal Veterinary Nerdbook, How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves, and Low Stress Handling, Restraint, and Behavior Modification of Cats and Dogs.

Dr. Yin lectures internationally on animal behavior and is on the Executive Board for the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior.  She has been a behavior expert for television (Dogs 101 on Animal Planet), newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle), trade and popular magazines, as well as a behavioral consultant for several zoos.

In addition to her writing and lecturing, Dr. Yin continues her research in animal behavior while maintaining a private practice in Northern California and through San Francisco Veterinary Specialists.

Wednesdays at 4pm on PDX.FM Channel Two

Are you tired of working out at the gym and not seeing the results you want? Maybe the problem isn’t the gym. Your body is designed to work a specific way and because each body is different maybe you are not able to get the results you desire. Arik Wiest is a health care specialist who educates fitness professionals. His extensive background in working with people of all different shapes, sizes and desires have given him the know how to make you look and feel your best. One free 30 minute session may just change your life. It’s time to pay attention to Everybodies Health.

Your mother even has a Netflix account now, while your kids can’t remember a day when you read a paper newspaper. And plenty of people here in PDX are creating without reading a rulebook  – in ways that make the old guard shake in their boots.

Who’s now redoing media as we know it here in PDX?  What trends should we be paying attention to?  Why does it even matter?

I’m Betsy Richter, and I’ve spent years dabbling around the edges of both traditional & new media.  I’m an early adopter who’s managed to retain a healthy dose of realism (I think it’s an age thing, frankly).  But more importantly, I’ve always been a voracious media consumer  – one who sees trends, teachings and/or train wrecks in the experiments to date. And I’m ballsy enough by now to think that I might be able to lead a conversation about just where this whole “media circus” is heading.

Redoing Media
Hosted by Betsy Richter
Thursdays at 1pm • PDX.FM Channel One

Tuesdays at 3pm starting February 16th, 2010 • Debut episode: The Portland Golf Show

To hear the episode head on over to http://conventioncrashers.pdx.fm

Hosted by Emily Gibson and Sabrina Miller

KPTV Fox 12′s Shauna Parsons

Airs Feb. 17, 2010 at 10AM on PDX.FM Channel Two

In this lively conversation, Shauna Parsons of KPTV (Fox 12 Oregon) talks about her path to Portland, her love of the area, her enjoyment of Twitter and how she ended up as a contestant on “The New Dating Game” back in 1986.

Bio:
Shauna teams up with Wayne Garcia to anchor the Emmy award winning “The 10 O’Clock News” weeknights on FOX 12. The newscast was recently honored as the top-rated prime-time newscast in the country.

She has received several awards for her reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Utah Broadcasters Association, and was also nominated for an Emmy award for a story on animal euthanasia.

Shauna enjoys volunteering for several different agencies around Oregon, and on many weekends you can find her serving as the masters of ceremonies at various events around town.

About Exceptional Women NW
Exceptional Women NW is a daily exploration of achievement, led by women, in Portland, the state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Past guests include Stephanie Stricklen of KGW, Julia Lambie, founder of Flying Wish Paper and Lynette Xanders of Wild Alchemy, a highly inspirational creative consultant from Portland. Upcoming guests include Shauna Parsons of KPTV, Michelle DeCourcy, nationally-reknowned fashion designer and Jeanna Frazzini of Basic Rights Oregon and many more.

Exceptional Women NW airs daily at 10am on PDX.FM Channel Two.

Tune in Friday, February 19, at 2PM.

Visit www.hikeyeah.com for more information.

“If I’m looking for something to do, the first place I go is Dave’s website” says Wagner, “chances are, if it’s worth doing and I haven’t heard about it, Dave already has something written up about it.”

Monday morning at 8am on PDX.FM Channel One, RobertWagner and Sabrina Miller meet the man with the knowing of a lot of things Portland: Dave.

But that’s Monday. What are you going to do in the meantime?

Visit Dave’s website of course.

Portland Sucks
with special guest @daveknowspdx
Monday, February 15th at 8AM

Hosted by Will Radik and Meagan Kate

Debuts Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 4pm on PDX.FM Channel One

iTunes and more information coming very soon.

Thursdays at 1pm on PDX.FM Channel Two

When his sister was away at college, 15-yr old Craig “borrowed” her nylon-string guitar and never gave it back.   Forsaking the fresh, rain-soaked air of his native Salem, OR for his daylight basement bedroom “studio”, Craig spent untold hours in his teens playing guitar, reading album jackets and listening to some hacks: Dylan; Simon and Garfunkel; the Allman Brothers; Carol King; Leo Kotke; Janis Joplin; Elton John; Lightnin’ Hopkins; Sonny Terry, the The Beatles and more.

Now that Craig eats food that doesn’t just come in a can, he has emerged with amazing insight and contacts in the Northwest music scene. You will get to do more than just hear live acoustic music during the show, you will get to hear from the artist who made it sing. This time you get to go Between the Notes.

First guest: Singer/songwriter, Justin Jude, who has performed with national acts like Erin McKeown and Lisa Loeb, as well as West Coast favorites, Stephanie Schneiderman, The Dimes, Scott Fisher and Chris Robley.

Coming soon to iTunes • visit Craig Stewart’s website

Exceptional Women NW is a daily exploration of achievement, led by women, in Portland, the state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Past guests include Stephanie Stricklen of KGW, Julia Lambie, founder of Flying Wish Paper and Lynette Xanders of Wild Alchemy, a highly inspirational creative consultant from Portland. Upcoming guests include Shauna Parsons of KPTV, Michelle DeCourcy, nationally-reknowned fashion designer and Jeanna Frazzini of Basic Rights Oregon and many more.

“There are plenty of stories about women doing exceptional things in our city, state and region,” said Doug Zanger, the creator and current host of the show. “It been a long-time dream of mine to find these stories and share them in a forum that is both inspirational and aspirational.” Female leaders in business & social causes, entrepreneurs, writers, bloggers, artists, designers, free spirits — any woman — anywhere in our area, making a positive impact, are the subjects of these 30-minute conversations and celebrations of hope and success from all walks of life.

Also available on iTunes

Visit www.cortandfatboy.com/geekremixed/ to get ‘em.

Tuesdays at 4pm

Join us each week as we talk to Portlanders and Oregonians about their favorite subject: food. From Farmers’ Market veggies to locally brewed beers, we’ll explore every facet of growing, manufacturing, creating, marketing, and exploring the things we consume day in and day out. Every time you taste something new, we want you to Savor Portland.

First episode - Dave (Knows) and Heather from Mile73.com will be joining us to talk about their shared blog, PortlandPoutine.com – debuts Tuesday, February 2nd.

Also available on iTunes

Damian DeBuiser:
An experienced Bar tender he seeks to broaden not only his own knowledge of the nature of fine brews but to bring that knowledge others of similar interests.

Susanna Parker:
A beer brewer that has worked with Salmon Creek brewery and Laurelwood brewery, as well as being en experienced home brewer, also seeks to broaden her own knowledge and share her joy with others of like mind.

Get Brew Happy episode at: brewhappy.pdx.fm

You can read Paul’s review of Nel Centro at his site, Breakfast in Bridgetown, or hear the interview live
Friday February 5th at 1:00PST.

Machado’s downtown bona fides – earned in the kitchens of Pazzo and Southpark – have evolved and expanded. In his two Eastside restaurants he’s created a distinct culinary sensibility – sophisticated food, friendly knowledgeable service, with neighborhood vibes and prices. The concept, in full flower at Lauro Kitchen and Vindalho, has reinvigorated the neighborhood bistro and this dining model is now headed west, accross the bridge. It’s a short trip but Machado has thrown long. His hope is that Nel Centro, his new venture at the Hotel Modera, will re-energize Portland’s boutique hotel food scene; a scene he had a hand in creating in the 1990′s.

Two decent microphones … two everyday people … one great idea: to take you on an adventure of ideas, sounds and voices intended to stimulate your mind, stretch your imagination, and with a bit of luck, prompt you to examine your beliefs about yourself, other people and the world.

Each week on PDX.fm, the hosts of the Becky and Joe Show, with their guests and contributors, will aim to bring you compelling stories, smart commentary, keen observations and maybe even a few laughs — all with the goal of exploring the common ground we all share.

Becky Bergman and Joe Wilson hope you enjoy their show and that it becomes your show as time goes by. The world continues to change and what was once a one-way medium is swiftly transforming into two-way communication, and then some. Becky and Joe will bring their fair share of thoughts to the marketplace of ideas, but to fully embrace what has been called the new media, they hope you’ll share as well. Have something you want us to talk about? Tell us. Know of something you’d like us to report on? Let us know. We are — aptly for what is mostly an audio format — all ears.

• The Becky and Joe Show website

• Download The Becky and Joe Show on iTunes

Each book leads readers and walkers on urban excursions of two to six miles, telling the stories of neighborhoods’ geology, human history, and architecture, along with offbeat tidbits ranging from how Native Americans used local plants, to the story behind those glass squares (vault lights) embedded in old city sidewalks.

She’ll also be the judge of the photo contest and will be giving away her book, Portland Hill Walks, as the contest prize. Don’t miss this interview and tune in to find out who the winner of the contest will be!

Channel 2 launched Monday January 4, 2010 with a new show called The Life Portlandic hosted by Doug Zanger. As he describes it, The Life Portlandic is “an appreciation of Portland, about sharing stories of hops, thanks and optimism…..a daily love letter to the place that we call home”. The show is live every weekday morning at 9AM.

Of course, you will still be seeing some familiar shows on Channel 2 as well. Starting at 11AM every weekday morning, get your daily dose of parenting  from Parenting Unplugged Radio. Todd and Laura bring you a series of parenting shows focusing on connecting, educating and supporting parents in their communities in authentic conversation around family and parenting.

We will also continue to bring you shows like Open Book with Diana Page Jordan, Online Recovery Support Radio and the music of Cool Front.

We encourage you to check back often with PDX.FM Channel 2 as the schedule of shows will be growing rapidly. After all, this is Portland, Oregon – one of the most creative places on the planet.

Live: weekdays at 10:00am pacific.

Podcast: www.cortandfatboy.com

So what does this mean to you?

Not a whole lot – yet. If you listen to PDX.FM using our handy live player or with an iPhone or iPod Touch then you can probably safely disregard this message and go about your day, remaining completely ignorant that we’ve changed anything at all for now. However, if you listen with your own player (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.) or use a stream player on your mobile device (Androids and BlackBerrys in particular) then you’ll need to take a few seconds and follow these instructions…

Step One: Delete whatever stream file you’ve been using to connect to PDX.FM – it will no longer work. So, if you’re in iTunes, just right click and delete it – same with Windows Media Player. If you’re using software on a mobile device to hear us, StreamFurious on Android for example, you’ll need to do the same.

Step Two (if you’re on a desktop/notebook computer): Go to www.pdx.fm and take a peek at the toolbar at the top of the site. Click the icon for the player software you want to use and your computer (Mac or PC) will download a file. Double click that file and you’re good to go.

Step Two (if you’re on a mobile device): Go to www.pdx.fm/mobile and press “play” – your device/phone will either start playing the stream (in which case you’re already done here) or ask which application you want to use to play the stream. Simply select an application. In most cases this should be all you need to do. If your phone does not currently contain a compatible stream player, we recommend heading to your app store of choice and downloading one. For Android phones we HIGHLY recommend StreamFurious – it’s fast, free, and very easy to use. For BlackBerry, it depends quite a bit on which version of the OS you have – email us at contact@pdx.fm with your phone model and we’ll help you out. We’re working to get this streamlined a bit more but RIMM isn’t exactly making this easy on us. Sorry.

Why the change?

You’ll just have to wait and see…

Happy Holidays from everyone here at PDX.FM…

While we won’t be broadcasting many of our regular shows on the week of December 25th (check daily schedule for details as they become available), we will be doing some rather cool things behind the scenes, gearing up for quite a few big announcements for the new year, so stay tuned.

October was our first full month of full-time broadcasting and podcasting here at PDX.FM, and our first real hurdle as a start-up. We’ve been bombarded with a lot of the same questions in our email inboxes so we thought it was about time we gave some answers…

Q: Why are only about half of your shows are available on iTunes?

A: We’re working on it. Really. We are. Honest. As of this writing we’re waiting for iTunes to approve (or in some cases re-approve) quite a few shows including Rip City Radio, Clairvoyant Connection, Ready Radio, Breakfast in Bridgetown, and more. At the same time, we’re also trying to ascertain the best way to provide podcasts of our various music shows, which means wading through a lot of legalese related to rights and royalties – we’ll get there, it’ll just take some time.

Q: Is there a way to subscribe to all of the PDX.FM shows instead of having to subscribe to each show individually?

A: No. Would you really want to? Who has time to listen to all of them? I don’t think anyone here even listens to all of them.

Q: I read somewhere about a show called (insert name of show here) but I don’t see it on the schedule, where is it?

A: Just prior to the launch of PDX.FM, Oregon Media Central gave us a little more free publicity than we asked for and, as a result, a few shows in development were made public long before they really should have been. All of the shows in question are still in the works and will be making their debuts before the end of the year. (And for what it’s worth, we do thank OMC for the coverage – it kept us from being lazy)

Q: I don’t own an iPhone or iPod Touch, do you have any plans to provide support for other mobile devices?

A: Definitely. Again, we’re a small company so we either need to purchase phones ourselves to do testing with or we have to rely on others to help us out – both of which make things a little difficult until people start volunteering their time (hint). At the moment though we are currently working on BlackBerry support, we hope to have that in place by the end of November.

Q: I have a show idea, who do I talk to?

A: Your best bet is to send it to contact@pdx.fm. Be both creative and descriptive. Try to include an outline of the first several episodes of your proposed show. We’re looking for uncommon people who are passionate about uncommon topics – and we prefer those topics to be at least somewhat Portland related. This isn’t traditional terrestrial radio and we’re typically not interested in having you come in and play long sets of music with two minutes of pandering talk in between.

So what’s new?

For starters, we’ve boosted the stream to 64k vs. the 48k we started out with. A lot of you are still using first generation iPhones with EDGE connections and apparently most of you are able to listen to 64k without a hitch in most areas – this is great news for us because while 64k still isn’t optimal for music, it’s more than enough for most talk show programming.

Second, we’ve added some of the necessities like a daily show schedule, a news page, and the ability to run contests and promotions exclusively to our mobile listeners. We’ve also added a spot for some unobtrusive advertising so we can pay a bill or two on our end.

Finally, we’ve added the ability to get most of your favorite shows in podcast form directly from iTunes without having to scour through the iTunes store. Miss a show? Touch an icon and download it directly to your iPhone or iPod Touch as soon as it becomes available. We’ve received hundreds of emails about this so we’re glad to be able to accommodate.

Is it an app?

No. We decided early on that we wanted to give our listeners the ability to use the rest of their iPhone or iPod Touch while listening to our shows and didn’t want anyone to have to download an app to do so. Instead, we’re using the built-in stream features of Quicktime – available with the iPhone 3.0 update. Using Apple’s proven streaming technology you can listen to pdx.fm without having to hunt for an app, install it onto your phone, and have to keep it active through our shows. Go ahead, play a game while listening to iPhoneSlutz. WeHeart Radio too but it seems pretty stupid to have to download an app and keep it updated just to listen to streaming audio.

More to come…

We received a lot of great ideas and what we’ve put together so far is just the beginning. Not many people realize that the core of pdx.fm consists of four people – putting together shows, scheduling guests, running websites, working on different ways to deliver content, throwing bacon parties… We appreciate your ideas and your patience, keep ‘em coming.

As always, send your thoughts, problems, suggestions, bugs, etc. to contact@pdx.fm

Want a little more perspective on all of this? Check out the write-up on siliconflorist.com