ABOUT THE SHOW
The Radio Wammo Show is much, much more than just a quality Kiwi jukebox to start the day. It provides plenty of food for thought – with a range of regular
correspondents and special guests from the cutting edge of the arts, music, science, media, new technology and new media providing informed (but never dull) comment.
It’s also breaking new ground in the ways that radio and new media/technology can be integrated -
• using webcams to film and stream the whole show live via a a Ustream player that can be embedded onto any website Facebook or anywhere else.
• live vision-mixing between presenters, guests, videos, web pages and images using the same audio as on the radio but offering a completely different experience.
• From there posting the interviews onto YouTube, usually within 10 minutes of finishing an interview.
Here’s a clip put together by Simon Pound on Oct 09′ for Media 7 on TVNZ 7 that explains what is going on here.
ABOUT GLENN WILLIAMS
Always difficult this bit but here we go (speaking in the third person) Glenn Williams is the host of Kiwi FM’s breakfast show Radio Wammo and has a strong background in broadcast innovation and social media. As the Breakfast host at Canterbury’s RDU radio station from 2001-2006, he pioneered the use of consumer technology for outside broadcasts. He’s now the only broadcaster in New Zealand to bridge the gap between radio, television and the internet through smart use of technology – video-streaming his weekday Kiwi FM shows live to the web, archiving interviews on YouTube and constant liaison with his
community on Facebook and Twitter.
He has appeared as a tech commentator on TVNZ’s Media7, as a host on Radio Live and prior to joining Kiwi FM in 2006 was also an occasional commentator for This Way Up on Radio New Zealand National.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“One of the highlights for me was the interview with Glenn ‘Wammo’ Williams on Kiwi FM. Not only is Glenn a lovely bloke and a top-notch interviewer but he is also a genuine radio innovator. His studio is wired for multi-camera video as well as the usual audio – meaning that you can watch the video mix over a live stream while you listen.
I’m officially predicting that Glenn’s radio show is going to be an even bigger deal (on Kiwi FM or elsewhere) in the future.”
- David Haywood (Public Address)
“Best Tech on the radio”
- Scott Bartley (Editor PC World)
“I applaud Glenn for going out on a limb, taking some risks, who knows what happens in the next 12 months but I suspect he is on the edge of something big over there.”
- Ben Young (NZ Herald)
“the most tech credible show out there”
- Simon Pound (Media 7)
