Radio Classifieds On CIDO

21 Oct 2009

Radio Classifieds On CIDO

Here’s a great model for a small-town radio program: Radio Tradio is a daily 15 minute online classifieds service. People submit items they’re looking to sell, and people who want to buy stuff listen in.

It’s on CIDO Creston 97.7 at 10am every Monday through Friday.

Having witnessed first-hand the awesome power of submitting an ad to The Fun Pape, Creston’s sales-counter photocopied 4-pager, I’m aware that in small towns the Craigslist model is not the way things are done. I like the idea of taking the one-place-to-find-them-all approach to the airwaves.

Radio Tradio doesn’t have a listing on the CIDO website yet, but you can listen live to CIDO anytime. I also like that their “Listen to CIDO” page includes coffeeshops that tune them in. Which of course would be the wonderful Kingfisher.

I’m informed that CIDO has finally finished their long-planned transmission upgrade, with multiple repeater towers positioned throughout the local valleys. Great to see a community co-operative station thriving.

17 comments:

jane

21 Oct 2009

Another rural BC non-craigslist-model classifieds item, from yesterday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oneonethreefour/4030711433/

Hugh

21 Oct 2009

I appreciate that the poster makes the pitch for coin-operated skill cranes, in case a potential buyer isn’t familiar with them. “Customers enjoy trying to win the plush animals”.

emerson

23 Oct 2009

Thanks for the refs, guys. Nice to see more appreciators of alternative temporal/spatial markets out there… The Island Buy and Sell is lovely, full of quirks- since a great deal of people submit their ads by phone, there is always a bit of creative interpretation going on with whomever is transcribing it. Some ads need to be phonetically parsed out to be understood.
The CIDO radio show sounds a lot like many of the cruising sailors’ HAM nets, which have pre-established times for “call-ins” and act as a big gear swap and gossip network. Fascinating, but intimidating to the HAM newbs.