Biking week
This week I produced a show on cycling in Columbia. Our guests included Ian Cheny of PedNet, Detective Jeff Westbrook with the Columbia Police Department and Michelle Windmoeller, who is an avid city cyclist. It was a pretty good show and we had one caller and nine people in the chatroom, which was the most participation that we’ve ever had. Producing a show was pretty cool. I was in the driver’s seat, feeding the questions to Reuben. I could see when he was struggling for a new question, and since I had researched the topic I knew what would be good.
The next show I’m working on is Human Trafficking. This should be a pretty powerful show. The trouble I’m running into is deepening the conversation beyond just the awareness aspect. Yes, awareness to the issue is vital, but that’s only half the show. The other half is WHY it’s important. WHY should people care beyond the fact that it’s morally wrong? I’ve completed the show preinterviews and have the guests. Now I need to go back and re-interview a couple of them to get to the real issues.
Also, we’ve talked a lot about audience development. For this, we will have a couple of happy hours at Uprise Bakery, invite our friends and push the show onto our friends and their friends. The hope is that it will spread by word of mouth. We’ll see.