We’re taking a hiatus from our streaming on Cascadia.fm. We want to be perfectly clear to everyone who might read this post: We loved being streamed on Cascadia.fm every Monday afternoon. Besides putting us in the company of many other finely produced shows, it brought in many new listeners who started downloading the show from iTunes, Zune and our website.
We also are grateful to Robert Wagner and Sabrina Miller of Cascadia.fm who welcomed us so openly and trustingly when we first approached them about the show more than a year ago. We are forever in their debt and hopefully we’ll find a way to work together again someday. It was quite a rewarding experience. They are good people.
But when it all came down to it, we found out that making a podcast that had to be a certain length every week and had a certain deadline every week was a bigger strain on our personal and professional lives than we ever expected. Call it beginner’s hubris, but we bit off more than we could chew.
So what happens now? Soon, maybe even this week, we’re going to start the show back up again as a podcast only — no streaming. We’re not going to make any promises about how often we’ll issue each new episode, but we will promise it won’t be so long between shows that you think we stopped doing them. Sometimes we’ll go a couple weeks between episodes and sometimes we’ll do more than one show per week.
The other thing that is a massive change for our format is length. While streaming, we always had to shoot for each episode to be 58 minutes long. Now without those understandable constraints of streaming on an internet radio station, our shows will vary in length widely. We promise not to go much more than an hour at time, but there may be some shows that only last as little as 10 minutes if there’s just one subject we’re talking about that day and we’d rather share it with you sooner than waiting for the next longer episode.
Everything will be variable except for the fact that we’ll continue doing the show with some regularity.
We think that both the listeners and we will enjoy this format more. If you think we’re making a terrible mistake or you think this is a great idea or if you think somewhere in between, please let us know. We value your input. If you don’t give a crap, we’ll understand that too.
Thanks for continuing to listen, thanks for your loyalty and thanks for reading this longish blog post.
Becky and Joe
Jan. 30, 2011
Portland, Oregon
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