Wedesnday December 21st, Join us for a night full of fun, exercise, new people, and laughs. Join a team of 5-6, get a list of crazy photos to take around Rossland, get the most, and win.
$5 to play, or $2 for Rossland Radio members.
Be there by 8pm, or you may miss out.
Bring a digital camera if you have one.

Rossland Radio Co-op presents our first Youth Internship Program. We will be hiring 6 interns, aged 16-18, 2 hours a week, for 6 weeks. During this paid internship, the interns will produce and record their own radio show.

How To Apply:
Email radio@rosslandradio.com with your name, age, email, phone number, and tell us why you would like to have your own radio show on Rossland Radio Co-op.

Application Deadline: Oct 12th at Noon

This Internship is funded by: The Community Radio Fund of Canada, and The Columbia Basin Trust

I was in Nelson the other week, at Oso Negro where there was a conversation cafe on community vitality. One of the speakers, Tom Clegg, asked the audience "If you have some knowledge, that could be of use to someone else, why haven't you shared it?" So, using that as inspiration, I have written the following guide.

If your community radio station is anything like ours, you may have some syndicated shows that you play from other stations. Up until now, we had to download each show, and manually add them to the automated scheduler. As you can imagine this takes up a lot of time, especially if there are shows to be added everyday. Occasionally they tended to be forgotten about altogether.
So, with this guide you will learn how to setup Juice Podcast Receiver (or any podcast receiver that supports running commands) to automatically download syndicated material, and have it automatically added to your automated radio schedule. For more info about RSS and the term Podcasting, check out this page from Kootenay Co-Op Radio

1. If you haven’t already, you will need to contact the owners of the syndicated show that you’re wishing to broadcast. Most of the time people are happy to share, but they generally want to know who is broadcasting their show.

2. Download Juice Podcast Receiver from here and install, choosing to “run Juice on startup.”

3. Open Juice up, and go into Preferences.
• On the first page tick “At startup only show Juice in the system tray.” This way it will
not popup on boot and confuse other people that might be using the computer.
• Set “download podcasts into this folder” to a place you will remember – this is where
the show subdirectories will be created by Juice. You will have to create this folder first.

• This is the most important bit. Under the Advanced tab, tick “run this command after each download” and add this text to the box:
copy "%f" "C:\path.to\podcast.folder\%n\latest.mp3" /Y
Replacing C:\path.to\podcast.folder\ with the directory you chose on
the first tab. What this does is automatically copy/rename the syndicated show to
latest.mp3, allowing this static file to be updated as new shows become available. Hit
save to save the preferences.

4. Still in Juice, go to Tools>Scheduler… Set this to whatever you think is necessary, I’ve got mine set to check every hour. If you have a show that you need to schedule almost straight after it becomes available, you may need to set specific times under the first option.

5. Delete the default podcasts from within Juice, and we’re finally ready to add our own.

6. With Juice setup, we can now find the RSS feed of the syndicated show that you wish to add to your automated scheduler. For example, Deconstructing Dinner provides a link to their podcast page under the “how to listen” page.
If you are having trouble finding the RSS feed, the show either may not have one (and you will have to keep doing it manually), or it may be hidden to stop people without permission from using it. If the show gave you a link to their RSS feed when you requested permission, then use that.

7. Once you have found the RSS feed, you need to get it into Juice. Do this by copying the URL of the RSS feed, and then clicking the green plus symbol on the Subscriptions tab. Paste the URL into the box here. You may also want to checkout the clean-up tab, to have old episodes be deleted after a certain amount of time.

8. Hit “Check for new podcasts” (the green refresh button). Go to the Downloads tab and you should see the latest episode downloading. Checking in the folder that you chose in step 3, you should see that Juice has created a subdirectory of the name of the podcast. Within this folder should be a file named latest.mp3, along with another file, which has the original name of the episode.

9. latest.mp3 is now ready to be added to your automated scheduler, and will be updated as Juice downloads new podcasts. Done!

If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to shoot me an email at
neeson@rosslandradio.com