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A new Floydian Slip Web site went live this morning. The new site focuses on marketing the Floydian Slip radio show to new affiliate stations.

Floydian Slip ended a 13-plus-year run in the Burlington, Vt., area on June 7. Host Craig Bailey has been making plans to relaunch the show as a syndicated program.

The site now includes materials geared toward introducing the show to program directors of rock stations around the country: A sample program as streaming audio, program clock, sample rundown, rate sheet and more.

Radio stations can sign up on the site for a free 6-week trial run of the show.

The new site also places an emphasis on Web standards and accessibility.

“The last time I did a major overhaul of the site was 2001,” says Bailey. “Since then, Web design best practices have changed considerably. With a move to syndicating the radio show the time seemed right for a new site.”

Floydianslip.com still contains an extensive discography of Floyd albums and solo works; Floyd news, now structured as a blog; and more.

Weekly Pink Floyd radio show “Floydian Slip” will end its 13-year run on Champ 101.3 with show #701 on June 7.

Station management informed the show’s host, Craig Bailey, of its decision on May 28, citing the station’s evolving format and the show’s lack of sponsorship as reasons.

“I never imagined this would last as long as it has, but I’m not quite ready to have it end,” said Bailey. “I suppose I’d consider pitching it to another station or webcasting it on my own. I haven’t decided.

“I appreciate the chance to do a good-bye show. It’s not very often a DJ is let go and then invited back behind the mic one last time.”

Bailey started the show in 1989 on 106-VIC, a student-run station at Ithaca College, where he was a senior. After a year on the now-defunct WEXP 105.1 in Burlington, he brought the show to Champ in 1995.

Over the years, “Floydian Slip” has received attention in, and served as a source to, media as diverse as The Dallas Morning News, The Ottawa Citizen, Relix, and VH1.

In 2006, Bailey wrote the foreword to “Speak to Me: The Legacy of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon” (Ashgate, ISBN 978-0-7546-4019-6).