On January 8th, 2024 StylesRebelRadio.com announced their venture into Radio. The following is a release from Style on the matter.
It has certainly been a hectic 24 hours, and more than that behind the scenes, so I decided I would offer this release to answer some of the questions I have received since the announcement of WSRR Radio.
First and foremost this decision did not come overnight, there were many internal meetings about the next logical steps for StylesRebelRadio.com between all of its members. Over a year ago the initial idea was floated about potentially rehoming The Rebel Radio Show on a new station based on some differing opinions in the direction CBW was headed at the time and some of the moves made with advertising, more on that later. While we tossed around ideas like a Roku Channel, Twitch, or even Another station, what made the most sense at the end of the day was for us to finally double down and make WSRR Radio a reality.
When this decision came about I wanted to ensure this wasn’t going to be the same programming you could find on any dial nor a formatless abyss of music. The initial concept was to stream all of the WSRR Podcasts centralized on one station, an idea which we are still working out a format for. However, as mentioned in the announcement video sometimes you need to go back to your roots. As a show that began on Underground radio, it’s only fitting we come back to finish what we started. Doing The Rock Revival every week on CBW gave me the opportunity to reach out to amazing local and independent artists like Jet Star, Gavin Michales, Year of Octiber, The Daze and so many more. More often than not it was this aspect of the show that kept me excited to get into the studio each week. This is an ideology that quickly showed as well as the level of support and excitement from the listening audience was insurmountable and vocal, to say the least. I’ve always believed the music scene is alive and well despite what you hear on terrestrial radio. The same 5 songs from 30 decades ago should not define Rock Music just as overproduced vulgarity should not define modern pop. It became evident very quickly there was a void in the local, underground, independent music scene in terms of radio that desperately needed to be filled. If anyone was going to do it, it certainly wouldn’t be the place we came from. This was the major driving force behind the decision to format WSRR Radio like we have.
NONE of this is possible without the amazing and talented people who make WSRR a reality with me. Shayne, Julez, Evan, and Jake are all monumental in making this possible. As are the incredible artists I’ve been able to work with to share this amazing body of work with all of you.
A common question I have been asked over the years is about the products we advertised for on The Rebel Radio Show and CBW Radio. To answer this, we have never promoted something we did not believe in. Both Raze Energy and SurfShark VPN were actively used by the members of The Rebel Radio Show, SurfShark is still used on the main WSRR PC in fact. We never promoted Crypto, NFTs, or any other form of digital currency scams or pyramid schemes despite an effort for us to run commercials involving them or promote other shows sponsored by them. We have not and will not compromise our morals for advertising.
In closing, I would like to thank everyone who has listened to The Rebel Radio Show, The Rebel Podcast, or any of our WSRR-produced shows in the past 4 years. You make all of this possible. Thank you to CBW for hosting our program for the past three years, and thank you to all of the amazing artists who are allowing us to broadcast their music worldwide for the betterment of local and independent music. This is just the beginning and there is plenty more to come! Monday will showcase the first LIVE broadcast on WSRR Radio at 5pm Eastern, I hope you all will join us as The Rebel Radio Show returns to live radio. If there are more questions I am sure we will be able to shed some clarity to them On Air. Below you will also find the WSRR Radio announcement for more info about the station!
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