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January 8 2009 : At long last this site is fixed thanks to the help fron Nicole from Punk History Canada. You can now bookmark any page on the site and it no longer says New Site :} Anyone who has one of our banners on your site will have to remove.../newsite from the banner code to make it work again. Or just copy the new banner code from below.
November 15 2008 : We made a area on myspace for people who tune into PHC Radio. We have a myspace page for the bands we play but we never had a place to add the people who tune in until now. If you want to join the area look in our links for our myspace pages. Frekwalda takes care of our Bands area on Myspace. And I look after the new area we now have for people who tune into PHC Radio on Myspace.
May 2008 : PHC Radio goes on hiatus every summer with adding bands to the radio from Outside Canada. From May until Aug end. We will still add bands from Canada during this time but we move slow. All bands from outside Canada send us a email in Sept if you want us to look at adding you.
September 16 2007 : If you want to post our banner on your web site now you can pick one. Cheers SK8 & Frekwalda
copy the code below to add the PHC Radio banner to your site.
Nicole from Punk History Canada made the PHC part and Graham Mayhem added the radio part. Thank You Nicole & Graham Mayhem.
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Graham Mayhem Made this one He gets Full Credit! Thank You Graham Mayhem.
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I took this picture in 1985 ??, I know who that is in the picture do you :} So I get full credit for this one as I took the Picture and made the banner / poster.
July 7 2007: I rented a second game server to test out what server provider I will go w/ when the year is up January 7
Below is the History on PHC Radio for the first year April 2005-2006
PHC Radio was an idea that four people had come up with in April 2005 on Punk History Canada. As a result, PHC Radio was started in May 2005 by Putney, Hellbilly, Graham Mayhem, Frekwalda and myself SK8. When the four of us got the idea for PHC Radio in April, we did not want to spend money to start or run PHC Radio lol.
I best add to this not one of us knew FUCK ALL on making a internet radio station when we started PHC Radio. Ok that's not true Graham Mayhem had been a DJ on another internet radio station before PHC Radio was born lol. But we wanted to do it and in true Punk fashion we wanted it so we made it happen in a few weeks. It's the net we wanted to stream radio to everyone for free lol looking back on it now dumb ass comes to mind lol fuck we had no clue. All we wanted to do was play Canadian bands, both old and new, on the net and give Canadian Punk, Oi, SKA, Mod, Goth, Reggae, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Metal and Hardcore, the airplay it so needed and deserved. So we looked at different ways to do it and in May 2005, we started to stream PHC Radio on a small business account Frekwalda and I have at home for gaming, and that's when Frekwalda officially signed on btw Frekwalda is my husband. Over time, we all got jobs / areas to cover as the radio is up 24/7. First off, we needed DJ's..........shit this was no easy task, more to starting a radio station than just playing tunes - lots of things to learn and set up fast. And I'm sure we’re not done learning yet! With help and information from Nicole, Steve, Neil and Ron, the four people who started Punk History Canada, our big sister site, things started to go a little easier. So an extra thank you to Nicole, you are a Goddess on a computer. Thank You Punk History Canada and everyone on PHC who helped us test the radio in the first few weeks, you gave us the help and room to make it work. Punk History Canada is fully our big sister site without it the idea for the radio would never have been born. That's why we called it PHC Radio.
By June of 2005, we found our net business account was not good enough to stream the radio from. You’d think it would be as its a business account (great for gaming). So we all talked on how to upgrade. We tried to avoid spending money, but that did not work. we had come to a time in the first weeks of the radio where one of the five of us had to spend money in order to make PHC Radio good to go. So, it was time to pay for a real stream provider or ditch the radio after only a few weeks. The main idea behind the radio was and is, to promote gigs and bands - old and new Punk, Oi, SKA, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Mod, Reggae, Goth & Metal. None of us wanted to give up on that and on PHC Radio so soon, as we had a good idea and it showed it could work in a few short weeks! We wanted to do PHC Radio for 1 year then review it and see if the five of us or any of us wanted to keep it up or kill it.
So Putney decided he would pay for the radio stream for one year @ 48kbps, since he had no, DJ time slots due to his life and work. The rest of us would make sure the radio was up 24 / 7, 365 days and fix areas as need be and get the web page going. Then we would review it all and decide what to do after one year and that would be June 2006. Our vision was and is to have PHC Radio stable by then and try to bring in sponsors so it pays for itself as it is not cheep to stream a radio. None of us started PHC Radio to make money or spend money. We started it to play the bands we always loved and who never got airplay and to give the new bands a place to get played and open people up to new and old bands.
But to make a long story short, everyone found the radio to take way more effort and time than any of us had banked on! We had no idea going into it how much it would take over our lives. Putney once said it best: “The radio was like a drug when we started it, then about nine months into it I came down.” So after nine months of PHC Radio, we lost Putney. Hellbilly left next due to his work/ life and time as well. But he made us the template our main web page sits on, and we thank Hellbilly for that fully. Then Graham Mayhem left, due to his move and work and life. Putney did want to keep paying for the radio for the full year until June 2006 but we did not see the point as he was quitting the radio. So Frekwalda and I took over the payments for PHC Radio February 1 2006. First thing we did was up the stream rate to 96Kbps so we now netcast at almost CD quality.We will put it up to 128Kbps when we have the money for it. This shit is not cheap people, but still worth it as it plays bands from our past, as well as promoting the new bands and gigs of today. And not only bands from Canada, we play bands from all over this planet of ours. Eh.
PHC Radio was a collaborative idea from four people on Punk History Canada and it has grown and changed so much in the first year that I am shocked at what we have achieved. Nothing stays the same, life always changes. We thank Putney, Hellbilly and Graham Mayhem for starting the radio with us, as none of this would be good to go had the four of us not hooked up on PHC that day in April 2005. We each had something to give to make it work and we took a small idea and made it happen. PHC Radio takes more time and money to run than any of us had banked on when we first got the idea in April 2005. None of us are rich, but PHC Radio is an idea we want to keep working on and see how far we can take it. We thank you for starting PHC Radio with us.
Frekwalda and I talked, and since we are married it makes it easy to run PHC Radio together less emails to deal with as we are in the same house lol. We are happy to tell you all we are going to keep working on PHC Radio and keep it going as long as we can afford to. Yes it takes money and time no we are not rich but PHC Radio has come a long way in one year, we are at the point that the radio is stable unless we get a net fuck up.We also learned in the first year to bring in sponsors so it pays for itself was not easy to do and would not happen. We all had a vision of what we wanted the radio to do last April 2005.And PHC Radio is in that spot more or less. Sadly, people quit due to life and work but the vision remains the same and we grow, change and learn more and keep going.
Thank you to all the people who tune into PHC Radio you are showing us all the money, work and time we put into this worth it. Also thank you to all the people who send us Cd's and MP3's to help promote all your bands, we could not do the radio without your help.So many great bands you all send us who should but don't get airplay on AM or FM Radio it is sad, some things never change in 30 years. But that is what you will get on PHC Radio we play it all new and old bands. That's what PHC Radio is all about the old and the new bands and the gigs.
Cheers Sk8 & Frekwalda : April 30 2006
May 1 2007 : PHC Radio goes on hiatus every summer with
adding bands to the radio from Outside Canada. From May until Aug end. We will still add bands from Canada during this time.
February 12 2007 : We did a metal show almost as long as the radio has been on the air but as of today we killed it since almost no one tuned into it. We will still play metal in the what came in the mail show as well as
the Only in Canada show. But Metal Monday is now Punk Monday so more baby punk bands get the airplay the should get.
February 5 2007 : CannarChist & Rude Dog will not be back on PHC Radio sorry if this upsets anyone as we do know he is a good DJ.
Comes down to we don't want to go back to passing the radio and picking it up again as it is just more work for us and this radio can suck up too much of our free time as it is.
January 7 2007 : The Quake 4 server for PHC Radio was moved to a new game server provider So the one year on the Quake 4 server stats now. The server was moved due to a ping issue.
December 20 2006 : The Quake 4 server for PHC Radio is back up for the next year. Also, have a look at our new Quake 4 area if you frag it has Q4 links on the q4 page.
October 20 2006 : DeathCorps has been offline the last six months on and off due to his life, work and time and is no longer a part of PHC Radio we wish him all the best.
October 15 2006 : CannarChist & Rude Dog are still unable to do the Sunday show they have due to his move but they should be back by next year.
June 10 2006 : PHC Radio is ON THE AIR @ 128kbps. We no longer have DJ's I am a bitch I fired them lol if you can fire someone you dont pay lol truth be told : We had to find a way to run the radio more stable without being glued to it and that's when we let all the DJ's go and set up a backup system. So we have no more dead air EVER unless our stream provider goes down or the power goes out. This move made the radio way more stable then what it was. So now only Frekwalda & SK8 do PHC Radio and you get less talk and more bands all shows now run 24hrs..
April 30 2006 : History on PHC Radio for the first year April 2005-2006
PHC Radio is not a job we make no money off PHC Radio.
April 1 2006 : When we started the radio it was for one year and then review it all and decide if we wanted to keep it going or not. Sadly before the first year was up
we lost three main people due to life work and a move. So Frekwalda and I talked we want to keep PHC Radio going as it showed it could work in less then a year.
February 1 2006 : Putney quits the radio :{ So Frekwalda and SK8 took over payments & PHC Radio went on the air @ 96kbps
June 2005 : Putney starts to pay for the radio stream for one year, since he had no, DJ time slots due to his life and work. The rest of us would make sure
the radio was up 24 / 7, 365 days and fix areas as need be. Then we would review it all and decide what to do after one year and that would be June 2006.
May 2005 : PHC Radio started to make your ears bleed in May 2005 @ 48kbps and that's when Frekwalda joined us. As we started the radio on our home net connection as we had
the fastest net out of all of us.We did not want to pay to run the radio but we already had a small business internet account for gaming at home so PHC Radio
was on the air.Big THANK YOU !!!! to everyone off Punk History Canada who helped us test it back then. BTW no the radio did not stay on our home account for long
too unstable we had to pay to make it go.
April 2005 : The Idea for PHC Radio was born by Graham Mayhem, Putney , Hellbilly and myself SK8 from talking on the Punk History Canada forum.
Posters Made For PHC RADIO : April 2005 - May 2006
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