Neverending Wonder Radio - Halloween Broadcast tribute

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...and it's Indian version.

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Try beating this.

My feet used to automatically start tapping when this came on NEW Radio.

Speakers on, full blast!

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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.

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.

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And here's one with clips from the actual movie (Dark Floors).

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Like V said, Halloween wasn't a local tradition in our Bengali culture also. But yeah...for last couple of years as I've become a huge fan of horror movies and started to tuned in on NEW radio occasionally at Halloween season, it become a totally different & exceptional experience for me. Though I might not have been a regular listener like others but whenever I managed some time & visited the site, Uncle Ozma always able to amazed me with his odd & surprising set of playlist every time. It was a totally shocking & saddest moment for the fans when we came to know that there will be no NEW broadcasting anymore! Damn! lately I have rediscovered some very rare Horror themed creepy BANGLA songs and I wish I could share them with NE on his awesome channel (I just uploaded them on youtube with set of creepy images using on the background).

I remember, last year NE decided to add an extra surprise feature for Halloween...Horror News Items...News reports based on classic horror movies!! It was a very fun & exciting thing for me as I made few of them & sent them to Uncle Ozma but later couldn't able to manage time to hear them out in NEW. So, if NE permits then this time I'd like to share them here in HDC...cause those things were total fun!

Kudos to Newb for this fantastic thread...a truly deserved tribute to NEW radio...the online radio channel that really made a great new way for us to enjoy the "Halloween" at even distant parts of the world. We'll miss it badly.

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Originally Posted by newb

Thank you, newb. :)