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We have a great showcase of music lined up for you on Buzzsaw Rock this Sunday. Show airs from 3-6 PM EST right here on VilleRadio.com!

Yahoo IM Us During The Show with User Name: villeradio

Skype should be working this week too. Use Skype ID: villeradio

We will soon add our Platinum Listener Package in the very near future. Platinum status will cost only $14.95 per year and will include Free Music Downloads, access to new releases before the general listenership, a free podcast/blog (Blogcast) space and more. Each Platinum Member will receive a FREE 3 day 2 night mini vacation package to your choice of over 100 cities in the United States.  Listeners already registered on VilleRadio.com will receive their first year of membership for HALF PRICE! I will post more details in the near future. If you haven’t already registered, do so now!

We will also be restricting song requests to Platinum Members. Hurry and register for your FREE site membership so you will get the opportunity to upgrade for HALF PRICE!

I received hundreds of emails asking us to remove the hardcore heavy metal from the station. To date I have received no emails asking for it. Since the listeners control the station I had to follow the majority and removed it from rotation. We have added more rock and will begin inserting some Alternative Pop and Pop Rock into the rotation as well.

We hope everyone is enjoying our Commercial Free Rock & Roll. Keep the emails coming and we will continue to add fresh content.

We found a glitch in our Auto Request System so we have temporarily removed the feature from our website. Our software engineer is working on it now and we expect to have it running again by the end of the week. I apologize to those of you who have requested songs and they weren’t played.

The glitch was actually discovered by a listener who emailed and reported it to us. That’s how this station needs to work! Listener involvement is what will make us the best on the planet!

Thanks a million for gettting involved.

We have been donated a 3 day 2 night free Bahamas cruise that we will be giving away in the near future! To be eligible you must be a registered member of our website (which is totally free) so go ahead and register now.

We will announce the details in the near future so keep coming back. Those who are already registered will get advance notification and will have an additional chance to win! You have nothing to loose so register now!

Sorry about that, we had a minor software glitch today that took the station off the air for a short peoriod of time. I listen darn near 24/7 it just happened to occure when I was at the post office mailing a letter and wasn’t by my computer to catch the clitch in time.

It is up and running again at full steam so enjoy listening.

The Ville Radio Netwrk is now viewable through your Cell Phone, PDA, iPhone or iPod mobile device. We added the service this morning thanks to a great new plugin provided by WordPress. As always listening to our Internet Radio Station is free! Now you can visit us from the road! Please spread the word and help us build the biggest Internet Radio Community on the planet.

When I started this free Internet Radio Station it was just a hobby to relax and have fun with. I’m still having fun but it isn’t just a hobby anymore. If it weren’t for my wife, best friend Mark and a couple other family members I wouldn’t be able to keep up with everything! I can’t believe all the musicians and local folks that have gotten involved too… This has become an unbelieveable project that has grown at a very rapid pace.

We have loaded tons of new music over the past 2 weeks, so much in fact, I had to increase the file size limits on my sorting and scheduling software. We have probably 1,000 more songs to review and upload right now as I type away.

One of the Station ID’s was produced by Michael Stollaire a recording artist from LA. I got to sit down and talk with Michael while he was in Louisville and he convinced me to go with all Rock Music. He had heard some folks talking in the local area saying they wished there was a good rock station in town. Well guess what? NOW THERE IS!

Then there was the freak contact I accidently made with Vicki Lynne Wisecap who is the President of the Georgia Music Industry Association (GMIA) who’s membership and mentors include some very famous singer/song writers including Travis Tritt. Go figure. I say accidental because she was actually ordering a part from the company I work with full-time and I happened to take the order myself (I’m not even in the parts department!).

Now, check this out! I keep watching my server stats and my visits, hits and page views keep soaring higher and higher. What started as a little hobby catering solely to locals has quickly become a WORLDWIDE venture. 70% of our visitors come from the United States and a good majority of them are still local but take a look at the different places we have listeners in (the order is by most listenership):

Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Seychelles, Italy, Poland, Thailand, South Africa, Australia, Russian Federation, Sweden, Ghana, India, Bulgaria, Estonia & Spain.

The list came right off my webserver stats software. What’s even more amazing is the traffic is all word of mouth! We haven’t even done any advertising yet! I do a couple of blogs but haven’t done any real search engine stuff or anything like that. We should have a listing in iTunes before too long and when that happens we will begin advertising within the major search engines to help drive more traffic to us.

We also made another major decision not to allow advertising in the music programming! Instead we are placing paid sponsor links on our site and companies pay us to send them traffic. Some of the stuff is free like the Cellware link. You can download free stuff for your cell phone and I have actually used the service and it’s really FREE!

This week we will be adding Google Searches to the site and when people click on the links Google will pay us for the traffic. If we can get people coming to the site and using the links and free stuff we will be able to keep the station FREE and Commercial Free. Last month we made a whole $37.50 off of link usage.

Another thing thought of doing is offering sponsorships for each hour of programming. If you own a small business and want some really affordable promotion, contact me and sponsor the station.

I just wanted to let everyone know the status of things on The Ville. We thank each and everyone of you who are listening and those who have subscribed to our feed. Please keep the emails coming with comments and suggestions we thrive on them. I can only make it better if you help by making suggestions!

We are loading hundreds of new songs each week but are in need of more good Country Music for the station.

If you are a Local or Independent Artist and have original music you have recorded please contact us! Our Country Music hours have gotten very popular and we need to add fresh content constantly. Use the “Musicians” page for instructions.

The Ville Radio Network provides FREE Internet Radio Programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All programming is 100% Commercial Free!