Orange Lounge Radio
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Orange Lounge Radio (also known as OLR) is an online radio station dedicated to the best of Video Game Music and News. Their most common tagline is News About Video Games That Don't Suck.
[edit] Origin
The station launched under the name Orange Lounge Radio on May 30th, 2002. The first live program, Orange Lounge Radio Live, was broadcast on June 23rd, 2002. The initial hosts were Rob Roberts (also known as "skie", who had previously been a co-host on Under Sedation Live) and Jamie Summers (also known as "DarkSakura"). Once in a while, guests (mainly members of DDR Freak and the Sacramento Bemani community) made appearances to help host the show. One of them was Matt Whiteman (also known as "LOKI"), now a regular host on their live program every Sunday night. The station is hosted on Live365 with a connection limit of about 100 users at a time.
They are probably most notable for their podcast offspring, Orange Lounge Radio: To Go which won them the Best Gaming Podcast Award at the first annual Podcast Awards in 2005. This has gotten them a lot of media attention, including an interview with a news station in Sacramento and a front-page article in the Sacramento Bee.
The station evolved on January 1, 2006 when the OLR crew announced that Orange Lounge Radio Live and their podcast would merge on January 15, 2006 into a two-hour show that would also be podcasted twice a week. The other hour would become a new show known as Orange Lounge Radio: Afterbirth.
[edit] Programming
- Orange Lounge Radio Live is a weekly two-hour interactive show that talks about video game news, Bemani news, and the lives of the hosts, with frequent chatroom interaction and in-studio guests. It is live on Sunday nights at 6:00 Pacific Time, and can be downloaded from the podcast feed twice a week - Part A on Mondays and Part B on Wednesdays. Notable segments include "Gaming Week", "FUs of the Week", "Website of the Week" and "Mailbag". This program is rebroadcast on All Games Radio on Monday nights.
- Orange Lounge Radio: Afterbirth is a weekly show that follows Orange Lounge Radio Live and is an extra show for fans of the station to interact with the hosts via the IRC chatroom. Notable segments include the Cagematch, in which the chatroom votes on three songs - one from each host - and the winning song is put into the station's playlist for the week. The Afterbirth is often referred to as the part of the show that is "too hot to podcast".
- Pump Up The Volume is a weekly music request show airing every Tuesday night, featuring DarkSakura. In addition to music requests, there are themed shows at various intervals, indie music spotlights, and comedy segments. This is the longest running secondary show on the station.
- Guys On A Show is a weekly interactive show airing every Wednesday night, featuring Skie and Xtofer. It is a shock jock-style talk show, often centering on movies, music, TV, celebrities, and other non-gaming topics.
- Travis Donovan Live is a weekly two-hour show hosted by Under Sedation Live co-host Travis Donovan. The show mainly discusses things sci-fi related and airs Saturday nights.
- STFU is a weekly half-hour show hosted by Jimmy Blocksom (DJTyrant), and Jon Bressler (DMN). Both have significant ties to the gaming industry and always have an opinion on gaming and are hardcore gamers. The show is very quick paced and is very similar to Pardon the Interruption in design and execution with banter between the hosts and a weekly five good minutes with a guest. Airs Thursday nights at 7PM (PST) and re-airs on Saturday's at 2PM (PST).
- Club OLR is a three part program which includes the following sub-programs of music: Hour 1 - LIVEWIRE - Video Game music mixed with Dance / Trance Club Favorites; Hour 2 - FRAGGED - Music to kick ass to, including Hardcore, Speedcore, Techno & Metal.; Hour 3 - OLR UNDERGROUND - A themed program featuring music you don't usually hear on the airwaves. Airs Friday nights at 7PM (PST)
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