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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Today: Ferris Out Sick, But The Showcase Continues...

Send Ferris O'Brien your well-wishes; as of yesterday, his voice had disappeared (though it may come back in time for his SpyRadio gig tonight at KATT in Oklahoma City at Midnight Central US Time - keep sippin' the honeyed tea, Ferris...) Then I ran out of time to do a fill-in show - Christmas shows actually take a bit longer than planned when they're mostly-previously-unheard-on-Altrok-Radio enterprises.

Fear not, for the FM Showcase featuring this week's new picks is on at it's regular 1:30pm Eastern time slot. Tonight, however, it'll repeat a couple of hours earlier, at 11:00pm Eastern, so you can still have three hours of frothy newness by tuning in to the FM Showcase here on Altrok Radio and then switching over to SpyRadio at 1am Eastern (Midnight Central.)

And what other station ever did that for you?

Of course, tomorrow at 10PM Eastern at 90.5 The Night, we'll have the annual Christmas extravaganza, complete with a lot of the original Christmas tracks that are buzzing about blogland...oh, and Stan Freberg.

Oh, yeah: Happy solstice!

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