WRAJ Internet Radio Blog

2008 Holiday Plans Announced

Maria O'Connell — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:22:54 +0000

Anthony Zaragoza has announced plans for WRAJ Internet Radio’s holiday music for December. Just like the years before, the holiday music will be mixed with our normal music programming.

Holiday music will begin in light rotation on November 21; which means there will be two holiday songs an hour. Then on November 28, the holiday music will be on after every other normal song. “If you have listened to WRAJ Internet Radio in the past holiday seasons, you will understand of how everything is done,” Zaragoza said. “We would like to prepare early as always because November-December is the time of the year we have the most listeners.”

All of your favorite programs, including “Back to the 80’s,” “The Afternoon Show,” “8 O’Clock 80’s,” “Colorado Wave,” “On the Horizon,” and others will still continue to air during the month. In addition, Zaragoza is planning a block on December 23rd for holiday programming for the shows to be aired.

Zaragoza added that the non-stop holiday music will begin on December 22. During this timeslot, the station will be presented with less interuptions and will not have 8 O’Clock 80s.

The date for this year’s annual Christmas Special with Jim and Ant has not been announced. “Jim and I are currently deciding a date for this special, and it is definetly happening, it is our big tradition here at WRAJ.”

Yesterday’s (8-21-08) Outage

Anthony Zaragoza — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:38:17 +0000

Yesterday’s outage, at around 4:30pm est, was caused by an accident down the street from us. We were able to go back on the air at 10:00pm est. You can read about the accident on vidgle.com here.

WRAJ and Vidgle Websites Back to Normal

Anthony Zaragoza — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:47:16 +0000

WRAJ Internet Radio’s website, wrajradio.com, and Vidgle’s server should be back to normal after the earthquake yesterday near Los Angeles. WRAJ Internet Radio webserver was moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles in June. “There was slow connections from our headquarters in New York for hours after the quake and so was other sites hostdd in the area of the quate,” said Anthony Zaragoza, general manager of WRAJ.

WRAJRadio.com To Get Makeover

Anthony Zaragoza — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:32:38 +0000

Its been almost 5 years of WRAJ Internet Radio’s website current site template was launched and now a make over is in process. A 2006 designed template was going to be the new layout but it has been dropped in the past month and instead a new template will be designed in the upcoming months.

The new template is expected to launch in January or August 2009.

Brown Power Outage - 7/23

Anthony Zaragoza — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:49:51 +0000

We are currently in a brownout which we need to turn off all of our equipment for protection. We have used already the 3 hours of power backup to keep the station on air. We are unaware when power will be restored.

A brownout is when there a drop of voltage in electrical supply.

New Features Coming to Site

Anthony Zaragoza — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:42:53 +0000

We are proud to announce that in the upcoming weeks, we will be launching new features to our website, WRAJRadio.com. The WRAJ Internet Radio music guide will be returning with some new features. Users will be able to make requests up to 2-4 times a day from the website.

With the music guide, users will need to be registered to WRAJ Internet Radio’s old message board system, as it will be returning replacing the myWRAJ portal.

Also, you will soon be able to watch videos from Vidgle directly from WRAJRadio.com.

Station Upgrades

Anthony Zaragoza — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:42:56 +0000

We will be off the air for a few minutes this evening, after 1AM EST on July 10, as we upgrade our broadcasting software to the newest version. We rarely upgrade our broadcasting software, but there are new features in the software that we would like to take advantage of. The upgrade process should only last for about 30 minutes.

WRAJRadio.com Is Moving this Weekend

Anthony Zaragoza — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:59:00 +0000

WRAJ Internet Radio will be moving to a brand new server this weekend. This website may become unavailable from time to time; we’re hoping to be completed by the end of the holiday weekend. If you need to listen to WRAJ Internet Radio when the site is down, you can simply to go wraj.net/listen.

WRAJ to Expand Podcasting

Maria O'Connell — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:34:23 +0000

Anthony is planning to announce that he is planning to create a new podcast platform that will be on the WRAJ Internet Radio website by the end of the summer. Just like WRAJ’s sister site, Vidgle, there are going to be several audio podcasts instead of video. Several shows planning to start includes AZ Tech Talk, Con Goer, Cruzin’ Hollywood, Sports Report, and more to come. The audio podcasts will also be shown on Vidgle, which is already having over ten thousand hits in April. In June, all Vidgle content will be on wrajradio.com while some content of wrajradio.com will be syndicated on Vidgle.

Saturday Night Jazz and Standards Starts May 17

Anthony Zaragoza — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:30:39 +0000

Jimmy will make his return on a weekly radio show, Saturday Night Jazz and Standards. “Its glad to see Jimmy return onto the airwaves,” said Anthony Zaragoza; “I can’t wait,” Sarah added.

Saturday Night Jazz and Standards will be a weekly radio show starting on May 17 at 10PM EST. The show will air some of the best instrumental and vocal jazz songs selected from The Great American Songbook. Such artists include Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Buble, Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holiday, Dean Martin, Kenny G, Louis Armstrong, and Nat King Cole.

Jimmy has been with WRAJ Internet Radio since January 2003, and was host of WRAJ’s annual live Christmas Special since 2002. “It’s been a while since I’ve been apart of the broadcasting lineup for the station, and I’m really looking forward to having a new show. The last time I was apart of a live show was back in 2005 with Ant, so it should be a good experience ‘cause it’s been so long,” Jimmy said in April.

You can see more about Saturday Night Jazz and Standards by clicking here to visit the show’s homepage.