Day 5 — Countdown to Launch

Six Rivers Radio is officially the most uncomfortable broadcast studio ever created. But, it is temporary.

Gone is the quiet booth and the program now comes from a woodworking shop. Tools align the walls. The floor is concrete and the walls and ceiling are open with just a little fibreglass insulation.

It is all temporary, and the comfy floor, finished walls, and a real office chair will soon follow.

The techies put their collective heads together yesterday to map the go forward strategy. Two of them said, “We’ll get there.” But Bill Martin — the only one who will work in that environment — is not sure.

Martin said, “There is no heat. There is just a bare lightbulb. This looks terrible.”

The engineer said, “That’s OK, it’s radio. Nobody will see it.”

So, today’s Morning Talk program, with guests Tory Rushton and Greg Henley, will broadcast from the old, unused, woodworking shop. In fact the first few Let’s Talk programs, launching Sunday at 3 pm, will also be centred among the tools and the overhead piles of mouldings and left over lumber from former renovation projects.

Eight radio stations under the newly minted flag Inspire FM, all of which are nice, neat, modern, comfortable facilities, will join the Six Rivers broadcast, not knowing the blight that Bill will work within.

Inspire FM operates the following stations across the Maritimes: Nova Scotia - Amherst 91.1 FM, Annapolis Valley 83.3 FM, and Halifax 93.9 FM

New Brunswick - Buctouche 107.7 FM, Moncton 105.1 FM, and Sussex 107.3 FM

Prince Edward Island - Charlottetown 91.3 FM, and Summerside 92.5 FM

Of course, Six Rivers Radio is internet based and available from www.sixrivers.ca and www.hopecentre.ca.

Stay tuned for Sunday at 3:00 o’clock to hear if Bill’s teeth are chattering. Of course, if he turns blue from the chill of the unheated room it won’t matter because you can’t see him on radio.

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