Dynamic Range Radio's Halloween Special 2009: Oct 30th - Nov 1st

Last year's Halloween show proved to be very popular, maxing out with 1,200 listeners tuning in at the show's peak, and more than 10,000 unique listeners throughout the day. I also set new records for the number of web hits and the Halloween show was among the top 30 most popular broadcasts on the entire Shoutcast network.

Unfortunately, despite having so many people tuning in, last year's Halloween show only lead to one measly donation, meaning that I lost a frightening amount of money. Since I can't afford to do that again this year, I've decided to try something different.

First of all, I won't be broadcasting all month since there weren't enough listeners in the early part of October last year to warrant the extra expense. This year's Halloween show will play all day long on Friday, October 30th and continue throughout the Halloween weekend.

Second, instead of setting up a separate broadcast on different servers, I'll be shutting down the regular programming and switching over to the Halloween show on my normal servers, but they won't be nearly enough to handle the extra demand, so that leads me to the most important change this year:

In addition to my regular servers I'll be setting up a password-protected server which only supporting listeners will have access to. Everyone who's made a donation of at least $5 over the past year or prior to October 29th will receive a password before the Halloween show starts on Friday, October 30th.

My current servers allow for several hundred listeners at any one time, and I'll leave those running for anyone to listen to, but if you're not one the first few hundred people to tune in, and you haven't made a donation, you might be out of luck, so if you enjoyed last year's show and you don't want to miss the new songs and movie clips I have in store, get those donations in today.