Mardi Gras Radio to debut' in 2007

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Mardi Gras Radio to debut' in 2008

Ponchatoula, La...... Thursday, Dec 25, 2006 - The dealings of Mardi Gras are about to take another leap forward in June of 2008 as Mardi Gras Radio.com continues to prepare to it's launch next year.

The new radio station will initially webcast during it's first year of operations, and eventually broadcast in the new Low power HD Radio format to reach the entire New Orleans metro area, including Slidell, Hammond, Baton Rouge, and up into Mississippi. The format for the station will be interviews with music legends, monarchs, captains, and other groups as well as, of course, the music of carnival year around!

The station will also broadcast from live Krewe or club events, Main Line and Indian affairs, and bring you brand new music for Carnival, as well as, the musicians that author such tunes. Also on the format will be the monthly Top 40 Countdown of the best Brass band, and schedules on where these bands are currently playing.

The for-profit station will run an advertiser supported business model and from week to week showcase the many aspects of the Carnival business community and its needs. The station will webcast on Mardi Gras Digest.Com and Mardi Gras Radio.Com

Other programs have already been worked out, with more to follow, to keep the station fresh, lively, and a treat to listen to, year around, regardless of your location.

For those who are not familiar with Mardi Gras Radio, it has been in the works for quite some time. Started as a weekly webcast to test the waters in 1999, the then webcast, was a way to attract visitors to the site of Mardi Gras Coconuts.Com. However, something happens that was not anticipated, the small test webcast found a following and in the late half of 1999, was one of the first Carnival webcasts on the internet with some type of program following. Tourists and others from outside the New Orleans area, began to listen and the bandwidth soon stripped the program of funding and brought the programs untimely end.

The trend had already been reveiled however, and a way was needed to carry the program and pay for the much needed bandwidth the webcast would need.

The introduction of the website, Mardi Gras Digest in 2000, made the perfect choice for the program, and the talent , programmers and others now have the means to produce, and webcast the program to the Gulf Coast region and the nation. Mardi Gras radio will become the sound of carnival as it takes shape and the Carnival sound once it does.....

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