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Originally Posted by neverending
For 11 years I ran an internet radio station, and during the month of October I did a monthlong celebration of Halloween, featuring a wide variety of Halloween themed music, horror film soundtracks and spooky old time radio shows, culminating in a 2 or 3 day long live broadcast marathon, with a chatroom for people to gather. A lot of the long time members of HDC liked to tune in and hang in the chat room. A fun time was had by all, as they say.
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Being an Indian, Halloween wasn't a part of my routine until I started tuning into NEW Radio from way back (in 2006 or 07). I am a habitual late riser, and never get up before 9 AM my time.
For the month of October, specially the last 3 days of the chats and live broadcasting, I was getting up at 5-6 AM, rubbing my eyes fiercely as I cranked up the computer and started Winamp to tune into NEW Live! Come 1st of November, 5 AM my time, I would be tuned into NEW Radio, catching the last few hours of Halloween Live broadcast.
Due to the time differences, late night prime time in the US was very early morning time for me. I would be a bit dull and laggard throughout the rest of the day, due to the lack of sleep, but never regretted it.
Same for the HDC Awards.
Only a few hours sleep (3, maybe 4 max). But the broadcast of NEW made it worth getting up so early. Everyone in my family knows by now that if I got up early, it was definitely going to be a NEW broadcast day.
Shame there won't be one this year. I will definitely miss it.