On March 13, the home of Jenthony Enterprises, Inc., which includes the studios and set of Vidgle and WRAJ Internet Radio, was damaged by a flood. Nothing costly was damaged, however hundreds of studio cables were damaged and will need to be replaced. “We don’t know the total cost of the damage of the wiring we use, however the floor had to go,” said Anthony Zaragoza, president of Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. “Several set props for Vidgle were damaged, those props cost about a hundreds of dollars in total.”
The studio and offices flooded late Saturday night due to a power outage. With heavy rainfall, it caused the water table beneath the basement to overflow the pumping stations and it then leaked through the stations and the cement floor beneath the rug. The water raised above the rug to about 3 inches. We had no power for at least 20 hours.
“We had a generator to start pumping the water once it began to rise, that generator failed. After a replacement generator was purchased 12 hours later, we received power shortly after.”
Now a planning process is about to start Monday. This includes new furniture, lighting, set props, and new wiring configurations. “We are planning to upgrade our network to high bandwidth with CAT6 network cables,” Zaragoza added. A new studio patch bay will be installed for WRAJ Internet Radio which will allow interactions with Vidgle’s video productions.
The last flood logged that hit the studio was on March 13, 2007 when a storm drain failed.
This flood comes a week after Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. is planning to move to a new location by 2013. This is the first major flood which had to move the company out for longer than a week. It is also the third flood since WRAJ Internet Radio started in 2003 in that location. WRAJ Internet Radio is currently broadcasting at a temporary location and the company is renting space at another location. There is no date when the company will be able to operate out of its home location. “The only date we can come up with is the date of April 12 or the 19th, maybe even later than that.”
Vidgle will be addressing what really happened at Katsucon over the weekend, and it all happened behind the camera. Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. voted that the information should be addressed and let the public be aware. The situation that happened with Vidgle even sparked rumors on the convention floor. Anthony recently taped his statement in the Vidgle studios tonight and it won’t be released till later this week. “The episodes may even be up later then expected because we need to take care of this incident first.”
All we can say is that we are upset about the outcome with our coverage.
Vidgle was among one of the first video podcasts to cover conventions with the theme of anime, science fiction, and gaming. And now, my plan to have more shows on Vidgle will begin later this month. In the beginning of Vidgle, there were two shows outside of “Con Goer.” One was “Cruzin’ Hollywood,” a entertainment news show and “The Vidgle Sports Report.” At the time, I didn’t know that “Con Goer” would attract to over 50,000 viewers in its second season. Then again, I created the show to bring in my experience of broadcasting into a field that has less media attention. Till this day, Con Goer is receiving many new fans from around the world. With the latest Viewer Map module we installed last month, we can see who watched us from what places. After our recent trips to small conventions in Pennsylvania, now a majority of our audience is based out of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Vidgle currently has three studios. One studio is located in the same studio as WRAJ Internet Radio. Another studio is shared with the content center, the content center, which is basically like a newsroom. The last studio is the green room studio, the studio has been ready since June.
Premiering first will be AZ Tech Talk, a technology show hosted by Anthony and with co-anchor Sarah.
Another show will be an anime review show. There are two other shows going to premiere later this year but is not ready for an announcement yet.
It was one of my most toughest decisions in my 8 years of online media entrepreneurship to start banning users of suspicious activity. In the Vidgle division of Jenthony today, we completed the setup of a banning system that would block users by their IP address and/or nameserver. Banning users hasn’t been into high consideration for years.
The last time it was consideration was back in August 2003, a Texas man was sending threatening messages to me on our website forums for WRAJ Internet Radio and through email. In some of the messages, he sent emails of very strong languages and notes saying that he was going to chase me down and kill me. And news broke out within 24 hours that he was arrested after threatening to kill a radio personality. It was during the court cases that the man states that he hates the large media. When my evidence came up during the trail (since we submitted all emails and system logs to federal court), he attacked me because WRAJ Internet Radio at the time was beginning to form a corporation by 2005. Instead, WRAJ Internet Radio was purchased by Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. in 2005 instead of forming its own company. Before the man was arrested, our old hosting provider did not allow us to “block” connections to an IP address or user. Today, our hosting provider allows banning disconnections from certain IP addresses.
Now in 2010, we are beginning to fully implement a banning system because of an investigation we conducted in November. A group of “kids” who we were able to identify in our investigation, decided to go on a one-star vote for every video spree when we launched Vidgle’s 2.0 engine back in September. And till this day, they vote 1 stars on videos on a regular basis. Due to company privacy, I cannot post more information about this incident.
But for weeks, I had to decide of what we should do to conclude with this investigation. So instead, we decided to form the banning system so we can prevent future attacks. A lot of people would agree in the company’s decision to block IP addresses because of an incident like this would make our website more fair, especially on our rating system. So on Monday, Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. is changing its visitor agreement and privacy policy to prevent attacks like this on all of its online media properties.
On top of this message is what the banned user will get if the IP address he/she is using is banned. The user can see the report of why the IP addressis banned and can contact the IP Ban Manager to see if the ban can be lifted for that IP address. For laughs, the error 20102 came from Nintendo’s error code when a user would do “unauthorized activity.”
Within 24 hours, I am about to roll out a project I have been working on for over 2 months. And that was the recoding process of Vidgle’s engine. Now its going to roll out tomorrow night. It will have a new appearance across the platforms of Vidgle’s distribution; mobile, iPhone, and computer. A TV version of Vidgle, Vidgle TV, will be rolling out in January and is currently in coding process. Vidgle TV will allow people to watch Vidgle episodes on web-enabled TV set-top boxes, such as the Wii and Playstation 3.
Need an internship credit for the fall? Well don’t I have a place where you can intern! That place is Jenthony Media, the parent company of WRAJ Internet Radio and Vidgle.com. We only select a few per college semester so apply quickly! Note that we strongly recommend you to talk to your college’s career services before applying. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know
The internship posting is here:
Position: Content Producer, Jenthony Media
Students will be able to help produce content for the online media platform of Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. Including its online radio station, WRAJ Internet Radio; audio podcast; video podcast, Vidgle; websites, and mobile platforms.
Requirements that we have established for internship at Jenthony Enterprises, Inc:
• You must be 16 years of age or older
• For this program, you must receive an academic credit, it is necessary to set up the internship with your school
• The internship program will not provide transportation reimbursement costs
• You must be enrolled at an accredited four or five-year college or university.
• You also must be on track to receive a bachelor or advanced degree from a college or university.
This job posting is available in:
• Fall Semester
• Spring Semester
Students can fax their cover letter and resume to 1-413-521-5976. They can also send their cover and resume through email to internship@wrajradio.com as a word (.doc) file (formatted for Word 2003) or PDF file. Students who are accepted will be contacted by phone or email. Students are encouraged not to call the company.
We will then schedule an interview with the student. Students will be contacted within two weeks after the interview if they are approved.
It’s finally up! The entire masquerade from Katsucon 15 is now up on Vidgle! We apologize for the delay, its just we have been busy with our other coverage of New York Comic Con and Wicked Faire as well. And we are also working and laying out a new show on Vidgle which requires us to have a set.
Ok, forget about the production, let’s talk about the masquerade for just a minute. This video link is also updated on the podcast feed (check iTunes or your podcast software to see if you already have the video downloaded already). I may suggest you to subscribe to Vidgle because this video is long which requires a lot of bandwidth. In fact, it might be best to have a copy on your computer incase if you want to share it with friends. Individual videos of the masquerade will be posted in the upcoming days as well so you can jump to a certain skit without downloading the entire skit verison (which is this). If you are a fan of HD, the skits were shot in HD but won’t be up until April when we will be launching our HD podcast feed.
And finally, on the next episode of the Con Goer… we will be having a new voice announcer. If you are a big fan of Newgrounds, her voice might sound familier to you. Until then, enjoy watching the Con Goer as we are swinging by with Season 2!
As you might of recalled back a few weeks ago, Vidgle began shooting in HD. All production work for the past year, such as graphics, were produced in HD. A few weeks ago, I posted a blog entry about videos being presented in HD on the website, it turns out that several people liked that favor. So we have decided to put HD videos, as well as our original formatted videos, on to the site.
New York Comic Con 2009 was the first episodes of Con Goer series to be shot in high definition. Though it takes a bit longer for the videos to be uploaded, we feel that uploading HD videos may expand our horizons. The HD videos will also have its own podcast feed.
When is this going to happen, sometime by our coverage of Anime Boston.
At Vidgle we have begun shooting our Con Goer series in high definition and all future shows will be shoot in 1080i HD as well. We started in HD this year since we have upgraded our equipment to handle the high definition video smoothly. We are using 6 GB of RAM on our Mac Pro currently and we are planning to max it to 16 GB by the end of the year. This upgrade of equipment wasn’t that expensive since all of our equipment were HD ready, we just didn’t have our video coverage in HD.
Our first coverage in HD was at New York Comic Con in New York City. You can see the HD picture by clicking on the picture above and then clicking it again on the page its displayed in. We currently only master it into 720p HD instead of 1080i.
Some cosplayers were excited that we began filming in HD so that the camera can pick up every single thing they are wearing.
There is some sad news though with this HD transition, the website is not expected to have the HD version in the years to come. All of our videos are on our website server in Los Angeles, not a third party podcast syndication network. Though we have a lot of space, it takes alot of disk space, such as 1 gigabyte for just one of videos. We are planning to have a HQ version which is in EDTV format (that’s 854×480 SD) but we think it is not worth establishing yet. But when we believe the time comes of establishing the HQ or HD feed, we will establish it. Vidgle already has a mobile website, flash video for desktop websites, and a podcast format.
The first Con Goer video that was mastered in HD will be available on Vidgle later today. Click here for the video.
Here are some other pictures in HD that you can find in our video. We’ll let you decide if its better or not! Just click on the picture, then click on the picture that displays on the page it brings you to too get the experience.
Not as good as last year, Fred and I talked about our experience at New York Comic Con on the WRAJ Internet Radio podcast. Our video reports will start coming in later this month. Click here to listen.
On March 13, the home of Jenthony Enterprises, Inc., which includes the studios and set of Vidgle and WRAJ Internet Radio, was damaged by a flood. Nothing costly was damaged, however hundreds of studio cables were damaged and will need to be replaced. “We don’t know the total cost of the damage of the wiring we use, however the floor had to go,” said Anthony Zaragoza, president of Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. “Several set props for Vidgle were damaged, those props cost about a hundreds of dollars in total.”
Vidgle will be addressing what really happened at Katsucon over the weekend, and it all happened behind the camera. Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. voted that the information should be addressed and let the public be aware. The situation that happened with Vidgle even sparked rumors on the convention floor. Anthony recently taped his statement in the Vidgle studios tonight and it won’t be released till later this week. “The episodes may even be up later then expected because we need to take care of this incident first.”
It was one of my most toughest decisions in my 8 years of online media entrepreneurship to start banning users of suspicious activity. In the Vidgle division of Jenthony today, we completed the setup of a banning system that would block users by their IP address and/or nameserver. Banning users hasn’t been into high consideration for years.
