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.