Demo Talk Radio – Coming to a computer, MP3 player or smart phone near you soon!
DemolitionNews.com founder Mark Anthony has announced the impending launch of a new online “radio show” about and for the global demolition industry. Under the working title “Demo Talk Radio”, Anthony’s team is already pre-recording content and testing listening and download channels in readiness for a launch early in the New Year. “Based on the popularity of our previous audio and video podcasts, we know there is a demand for demolition-related news and features in a non-printed format,” Anthony says. “As a print journalist for more than a quarter of a century, this represents an enormous culture shock personally. But we live in a digital age in which people want information as it happens, and that they can take with them on their mobile telephones, electronic media players or computers.”
In keeping with this digital age philosophy, Anthony reports that Demo Talk Radio will be free to play, download and share, and can even be embedded on websites and blogs of other interested parties. “Although some of the major newspaper groups are trying to convince us otherwise, nobody wants to pay for news and information. So Demo Talk will be available free at demolitionnews.com and via iTunes from the outset, and will remain that way for as long as I am involved,” he asserts. “Ultimately, it will be funded by advertising; advertising that depends upon the largest possible number of listeners. So if companies, trade associations and other magazines want to use Demo Talk to help their own members and readers, they are free to do so.”
Anthony has set himself an ambitious target of producing a minimum of one show per month, initially concentrating upon the European market but with an eye to a more global perspective in the near future.
Content will include profiles on people, projects and companies, discussions of new and impending legislation, safety, training and any other issues likely to influence the business decisions of demolition professionals. “We already have key interviews lined up with some of the biggest names in the European demolition market so that’s where we will start,” he says. “But we’re in advanced negotiations with some of the leading lights of the US wrecking and blasting community and we would hope to air our first global edition by February.”
Mark Anthony admits that it is a bold move, and has spent the past year studying the demolition sector’s growing use of smart phones, digital media players and computers. “The demolition industry is all-too-often portrayed as a Luddite sector with no technological interest whatsoever. But, while they might be lacking in spare time, every demolition professional these days has a smart phone and a computer and an increasing number are using the Internet as their primary source of information,” Anthony concludes. “With the introduction of Demo Talk Radio, those demolition professionals will be able to get their fix of demolition news and views on the move, saving them time and ensuring they’re fully up-to-date with market, economic and legal issues that may impact upon their business.”
