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We’ve dropped the fee we had been charging affiliate stations to air “Floydian Slip.” Or, in broadcasting parlance, we’ve shifted from a “cash” to a “barter” model. We hope the effect will be to get more affiliates to sign on to carry our weekly broadcast.

Why the change?

Stations just aren’t accustomed to paying cash for syndicated programming, no matter how low the price. Most expect to get shows like “Floydian Slip” without paying a fee. In exchange, they give airtime for syndicators’ network commercials that are included in their shows.

We’re focusing on expanding our Random Precision Radio Network, with hopes to eventually attract a network sponsor.

Pink Floyd fans can lend a hand: We’ve made our radio station database searchable online so you can see what station(s) in your area we’ve already approached and put in a good word.

Search the database and help bring “Floydian Slip” to your local station!

“Floydian Slip,” will begin airing on WRBA-FM “Arrow 959” in Panama City, Fla., on Sunday, Jan. 31.

Arrow 95.9 becomes the fifth affiliate to join the show’s Random Precision Radio Network, created last summer when we began syndicating the show from our Vermont studio.

Arrow 95.9 is a 50,000-watt classic rock station serving the Florida panhandle. It also streams on the Web at www.959online.com.

The station is part of Double O Radio, a South Carolina company that owns stations in several states.

The show will air on Arrow 95.9 Sundays at 11 p.m., local (Central) time.

We’re finalizing plans that will bring our weekly Pink Floyd broadcast to an FM station located in Florida’s panhandle.

Details coming soon …

“Floydian Slip” will begin airing weekly on Radio Universitaria 100.7 FM next week.

The show will air during the first hour of Jose Geraldo Barbosa‘s progressive rock show “Musical Box,” which runs Thursday nights from 9-11 p.m. local time — 6-8 p.m. Eastern time.

The station is housed at Universidade Federal de Vicosa, a public university that serves 12,000 students in the city of Vicosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Minas Gerais is the second most populous of Brazil’s 26 states.

In addition to broadcasting at 100.7 FM, the station also streams on the Web.

Radio Universitaria becomes the fourth affiliate to carry “Floydian Slip,” joining WBKM, Burlington, Vt., WIZN 106.7 FM, Burlington, Vt.; and ErrorFM Channel 2, London, U.K.

In January, Floydian Slip will move from ErrorFM’s “Channel 1” to “Channel 2.”

The show will be heard at the same times: Sundays, 11 p.m.; and Saturdays, 1 p.m. Eastern time.

The change is part of ErrorFM’s rebranding “Channel 1” to become an all-talk station.

Until January, you can hear the show on both channels.

Netcaster ErrorFM has changed the time of its Sunday rebroadcast of “Floydian Slip” to 1-2 p.m. Eastern time.

The station will continue to stream the show Saturday nights, too, at 11 p.m.

Since we started our campaign to expand “Floydian Slip” to radio stations everywhere, we’ve had lots of people ask what they can do to help bring the show to their local station.

We’ve just made our database of radio stations available at floydianslip.com, and encourage you to lend your voice of support by contacting the station(s) in your area.

Here’s the searchable database and some simple suggestions for what to tell stations.

And don’t forget the “Floydian Slip” mantra for new affiliates: Sign on and shine on!

ErrorFM has signed on to carry the “Floydian Slip” radio show.

The U.K.-based netcaster will begin carrying the show this Saturday, Oct. 10, at 11 p.m. EDT (UTC -4).

“Floydian Slip” will be heard on ErrorFM’s Channel 1, “Personality Radio,” which has been streaming since 2002.

The company also operates Channel 2, “Indiepop,” which launched in 2007.

Both streams can be heard at www.errorfm.com.

WIZN 106.7 FM in Burlington has signed on to carry the “Floydian Slip” radio show. The station will begin airing the show 8 p.m. Sundays on Sept. 27.

“We’re excited to have ‘Floydian Slip’ on WIZN, not only because it’s the quintessential Floyd show, but also because it’s a Burlington icon,” says WIZN Program Director Matt Grasso. “We feel like the show is finally home where it belongs.”

“WIZN was one of the stations I listened to and dreamed of working for when I was getting into college radio and spending vacations back home in Vermont,” says host Craig Bailey. “To think the show is joining The Wizard’s line-up is really exciting.”

“Floydian Slip” went off-the-air June 7 after a more than 13-year run on Champ 101.3 in Burlington. Bailey had produced the show for other stations prior to Champ, going back to his senior year of college in 1989.

Since Champ cancelled the show, Bailey has been working to bring it back to the air on multiple stations as a syndicated offering under the moniker of the Random Precision Radio Network.

He’ll resume production Sept. 19 with Show #702 on Burlington’s online station WBKM, the first station to join the new network. WBKM carries the show 10 p.m. Saturdays.

Starting Sept. 27, you’ll be able to hear “Floydian Slip” Sunday nights at 8 on WIZN 106.7 FM, in Burlington, Vt.

We’re glad to have the Wizard aboard as our second affiliate station.

Watch for a more formal announcement tomorrow …