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By Uncle Ricky, December 9, 2015

REELRADIO NEWS

Many REELRADIO subscribers may not realize it, but this site has been UPDATED, with NEW CONTENT, every Sunday, for nearly 20 years! But that can't continue forever. I am pretty much the sole operator of REELRADIO, and I turn 65 on January 8. I want to move from where I've lived and worked since 1981. Over the last two decades, I have accepted tapes, CDs and LPs, and my home has become a warehouse. It will take months to clean up. The REELRADIO archives must be packed up and moved somewhere. I will not have down-the-hall access to whip up new exhibits every Sunday morning. So, for those reasons, the last scheduled weekly update will be Sunday, February 14, 2016.

As a subscriber, you will decide if you wish to continue to support the site with fewer updates. Initally, there will be no new exhibits for maybe 6 months to a year. But all of the existing exhibits will remain. The site is not "going away" for as long as the organization can meet the basic costs of business administration, hosting, bandwidth and licensing. Will regular updates return on some sort of schedule? Maybe.

There is a second, but very important issue regarding the site, and it is also one for which the only solution is time. When I started streaming airchecks in 1996, Real Audio was the only streaming solution. After 20 years, Real Networks has so drastically altered their product from the original offering that the Real Player is no longer a good choice. It's time to upgrade REELRADIO streaming services, and this requires the re-encoding of over 2,000 exhibits (about 1000 are already done.) My goal is a compatible solution for both desktop and mobile players, not intended for download, accessible for STREAMING with a single PLAY button.

REELRADIO went online February 12, 1996. There were no "web authoring" programs - Netscape was the best browser, Google and Facebook didn't exist. Much of what is known as "The Internet" didn't exist. REELRADIO, and many early sites, were built by hand, coded in a simple text processor - the same way this page was generated today! I still maintain the original hand-generated pages every week.

Concurrent with the update of our delivery medium, I will develop a database-driven site that is easier to maintain and update, with greater accessibility and enhanced search facilities for all.

Because I can't say when or if updates will resume, REELRADIO no longer offers annual subscriptions. The minimum donation of $10 now covers a 6-month subscription. As always, your support of this non-profit organization is essential for the continued operation of this website and the real REELRADIO REPOSITORY.

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