I'm in.

I'll pay five bucks a month, though I'm hoping that Rafe will prove popular enough that the price can come down - especially for a year's subscription.

BTW, I visited your site, RAFE, and I must say that the bulk of your "careers" were one of 4 - politicking, lawyering, writing, radio hosting/commentating. I think you stretch it a bit much when you claim 16.

Remember, sharing is good.

Have crossed swords frequently with Rafe

I welcome his return. Though I've been red-baited and otherwise insulted by him in several of the numerous calls to his radio talk shows, I've always appreciated the sharp, legal mind and his style.

Even with his interminable campaigns against questionable fish-farming methods, and the "proposed" Site C dam, he was never dull.

What a great pity that recently-departed, distinctively-voiced Alet, aka Hanoi Hanna, will not be around to take him to task as, I'm sure, he will frequently need to be.

Good luck, Rafe.

An Experiment

I suppose it is just an experiment, but I find it hard to listen to internet radio. Paying $5.... well, I don't think he will have to worry about that.

It is too bad. Talk radio is getting tough to listen to in Vancouver. Michael Smyth, Charles Adler, and now Christie Clark on CKNW?! Ugh. The "Top Dog" is just a dog. If only I could turn to the CBC without falling asleep.

Best of luck Rafe. The experiment is worth running.

I love and welcome any news

I love and welcome any news free from corporate, Govment, dictator influenced non-news like CanWest globull who have a strangle hold on 96% of our BC media.
http://www.straight.com/article/raids-prompt-revelations-of-martin-campbell-connections?# Why has CanWest not been reporting this huge betrayal of the citizens of BC and all Canadians?
http://bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com/
Not a word from CanWest about Royal Dutch Shell http://www.dogwoodinitiative.org/bulletins/shellstandoff
Like Gordo privatizing 500 of our rivers to private companies, Our Universal Health Care http://www.nupge.ca/news_2002/news_my02/n06my02a.htm http://thetyee.ca/News/2004/12/03/BCContractorMaximus/, Our Water, Our ALR, BC Hydro, the 2010 WO huge secrecy on over cost, Our BC Rail scandal 3.5 years and still nothing,
$800,000,000. over budget for the Convention center,
the give away of our North Shore Wharves to Kinder Morgan, the real agenda behind the Gateway highway = NAU, NWO, SPP Super highway linking BC to the USa and Mexico.
So many dirty scandals, when will somebody with some nads bring all this dirt to the surface?
Welcome back Rafe!
To the tune of "Welcome Back Kotter"

Good luck

As a guest on Rafe's former shows many times, I look forward to tomorrow's show. After listening to NW's inept and self serving transit discussion today, Rafe is needed and needed badly.

Fish farms? - Rafe was right on the button and the destruction of West Coast Salmon is a black eye for the Campbell government.

$5 a month, that about the cost of a pint at your local.

Cry Rafe.......and let slip the dog of war!

Hey Rafe...Bear

Hey Rafe,

Your back on air just as it should be. And as for those trying to "control" you, just tell 'em tooo damn bad if the Truth gets in the way of their good story... :-D

Good new on some of the fish farms pulling out here in B.C. Sad it took sooo long, but glad they are doing it now. People's Voice...man, it goes a long way. Thanks for encouraging our voice and for your efforts to shut down this ecologically devastating industry Rafe. From what I understand, it is not over yet, but we've got a few of 'em running...

Peace,

Bear

I Wonder

......how long it will take before the internet kicks him off the air. Surely, the bandwitdh can be used to promote someone who can attract better ratings!?!?

Webcasting...there are no ratings!

The idea of webcasting works for anyone and everyone whom wishes to be heard.

The Wayne's World basement teens can broadcast about their favorite sandwiches on YouTube, why not Rafe actually giving an opinion (and not a sideways he-said, she-said infomercial)?

The only way to be 'off' is to decide to no longer make new webcasts.

There are no censors, there are no advertisers (unless you want them), there are no editorial boards that will 'pull your plug'. There are still some legal considerations, none any worse than faced by regular broadcasters.

So too bad Capitalism, no one will have the power to 'kick' him off the air...so long as Rafe has the $$$ and time to make the recordings, they will continue. The choice is yours to listen or not.

murdock

I understand what webcasting is.....

It was an attempt at sarcasm. I won't be listening, though I hope it works. I presume he won't make much money - though I doubt that is his point.

No such thing as public broadcasting anymore - hopefully it can re-gain its home on the web.

He can dish it out. He can take it.

This medium certainly lends itself to it - the smear, that is. It will no doubt intensify. That is not to say that negative, or critical opinion, should be excluded.

After having read the "chosen" and total comments, perhaps even Rafe would agree, that the latter is more fun.

Let's not further thin the gruel.

I tried to get the first airing but was unable to. I don't know whether my laptop Mac OS X system is inadequate. I therefore. eagerly await assessment of anyone who was able to connect.

Chatty

skeptikool, I listened to the first webcast. The musical intro was catchy, along with the use of the same music while the staff was fishing for the guest on the phone.

It all came off well for the intro and the editorial, Rafe is a bit rusty (or is that rustic?) and seemed ready to go to commercial (or weather or traffic etc) as he had to in the past, and it allowed for the tech glitch of no guest on the phone to be handled quietly. Rafe did some winging reading emails (including answering the comments posted here!) then got the second guest in (live in-person) and went with him early before finally getting the mayor of Delta on, sadly she was rather soft-spoken on a crummy telephone connection and even with my sound maxed out I was only hearing her 1/2 the time.

Overall I'd call it like a college amateur radio show, with a good host having to 'fish around' a few times.

You should be able to hear it in the archives section, but other than as a first for Rafe, I'd not worry about having missed it.

Radio show??

I tried to listen this morning and couldn't connect via Windows Media Player (no surprise there!) but got a connection via Real Player. The quality was ghastly (gurgling/scratchy.. ick) but also, the acoustic quality is unacceptable - it sounds like it's being streamed from a bathroom. Throw a few duvets on the walls to stop the room echo, please! (Sheesh... podcasting 101!) Clearly, all of the problems are caused by dealing with a Toronto company and its crummy user interface... :)

I wish Rafe all the best in this new format. There's no reason why this new "pulpit" cannot prosper and make money for all involved and it's great to hear his voice back again. With Skype and other messenger programs, there should be a way to do bi-directional online, complete with a panic button and then we'll have the old buzz back again (hopefully without the awful distorted quality of today's show broadcast). There's every opportunity to sell ads, methinx and think about podcasting the shows. If they're only one-way, allow people to download them and listen on their iPods.

Best of luck
David

Rafe why not co-op?

Rafe
ever considered a show on Vancouver co-op radio?

102.7 FM