Online Radio Station Grows
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ALPHA BOYS SCHOOL Joshua Chamberlaine
Alpha Boys School Radio is a curated experience of Jamaican hits and hard to find gems. They all share the common thread of having an Alpha student producing or performing on the song. Since starting online at www.alphaboysschoolradio.com, Alpha Boys School Radio has attracted the support of Jamaican and international tastemakers, from Sean Paul to UB40, David Rodigan to Delfayo Marsalis. Both the Tosh family and the Marley family have spread the word to their friends and family as well as Alpha grads like Winston ‘Yellowman’ Foster. “The support of the music industry has been fantastic,” said radio station General Manager, Rob Connelly. “We’ve watched listenership rise month after month based on the quality of the programming and the support of the Alpha community. We are very excited to take the next step and introduce radio operations and promotions training to current Alpha students.” The Alpha Boys’ School Radio Studio and Media Lab fundraiser on Kickstarter.com will create important, real-world training and employment opportunities in media production, promotion and presentation. In return for their pledges, donors can receive rewards contributed in part by Toots & The Maytals, Yellowman and the founders of the International Reggae Poster Contest (Michael Thompson aka Freestylee: Artist Without Borders and Maria Papaefstathiou).
L3 MAGAZINE | MARCH 2014
Focusing on its ‘all Alpha, all the time’ format, Alpha Boys School Radio is now launching into the next phase, a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter.com (http://kck.st/1fihNfD) to build the Alpha Boys’ School Radio Studio and Media Lab on the campus at Alpha Boys School. The studio campaign follows on the successful execution of live broadcasting of The Skatalites performance in the United States and launch of the free mobile applications for Android and iOS phones. Online, on your phone and soon live and direct from Kingston, Alpha Boys School Radio is your musical passport to Jamaica!
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Alpha Boys School, the non-profit residential school in Kingston, Jamaica, recently announced its online streaming radio station, www.alphaboysschoolradio.com which has reached the milestone of passing 60,000 unique listeners per month after 5 months of operations.