Can you hear it? Fandom is singing.
And it's not just the music from a thousand favorite TV shows, games and movies. It's not just the music the fans write themselves about the things they love, though that's amazing. It's a celebration of thoughts and ideas, of daydreams and daydreams brought to life. There is more creative energy in science fiction fandom than in any other social group on this entire planet. So it's only fitting that Fandom should have a radio station.
The station was founded in 2009 by movie industry veterans Gene Turnbow & Susan Fox and a small group of friends who wanted a sci-fi radio station but couldn't find one - so they made one! Since then Krypton Radio has marched to (and played) a different beat, one defined by the fans themselves.
Every facet of Fandom has a voice in the symphony. Krypton Radio now has live DJ's, radio dramas both old and new, original radio show productions and music from every kind of media with geek appeal and a sound track.
It's a lens, bringing both fannish creators and audience into focus for the other. We have published well over 12,00 interesting, newsworthy and edifying articles on our web site, and we have well over five thousand fans on Facebook already, and we've just scratched the surface.
The Event Horizon is where it all comes into focus. The show strives to bring back the connection between the fans and the creators of the genre that's been missing, and to help new creators rise.
But to go any higher, we need your help to bridge the gap between what we can do working completely volunteer and unfunded, and what we know we could do if we had the resources. And unfortunately for us, at the moment that's a pretty big gap. That's where you can come to our rescue.
The long term goal is to make Krypton Radio not just a radio station for sci-fi fans, but to make it into a continuous social experience for sci-fi fans everywhere.
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Our Goal: $24,000The first thing - the most important thing - Krypton Radio needs to do is to grow its audience. This will let us help the authors, musicians, artists and filmmakers reach Fandom around the world, and we want to use our flagship radio program The Event Horizon to do it.
But to do it, we have to be able to take The Event Horizon on the road.
We've already taken the first big leap of faith - we've produced over 30 episodes of The Event Horizon so
far. Just working over Skype, and with whatever resources we have
without leaving Los Angeles, we've had panelists from all over the
science fiction and fantasy spectrum.
Some of our best shows have been in front of live audiences, but we haven't been able to do that many of those. Still, if you've been tuning in, you've heard these voices and more:
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David Gerrold - Hugo-winning science fiction writer and screenwriter, author of The Trouble With Tribbles and the Starwolf series
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Bruce Boxleitner - Captain Sheridan from Babylon 5, "Tron" from the movie by the same name, and co-creator and executive producer of Lantern City
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Tim Russ - "Tuvok" from Star Trek:Voyager, writer, & producer of Star Trek: Renegades
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Dr. Rebecca Housel - the Pop Culture Professor, author and lecturer
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Jody Lynn Nye - author of the Myth Adventures series & more than 40 novels
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Neal Hallford - author & game designer of such classics as Betrayal at Krondor, both Dungeon Seige games, and Golden Axe
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Jeff Mach - convention runner, creator of The Steampunk World's Fair
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Hreafn Wulfson - writer / producer of Flight from Shadow, the world's only fan film based on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series of novels
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Travis Richey - "Inspector Spacetime" and creator of Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveller Who Can Also Travel Through Time
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James Palmer - author and editor in chief of Mechanoid Press
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Jimmy Diggs - screenwriter for Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space 9
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Geoffrey Thorne - actor, screenwriter, novelist, with several Star Trek books to his credit, as well as being writer for and co-founder of Genre 19, a comics publishing company
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Elizabeth Watasin - writer / illustrator, and author of the Dark Victorian series
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Ryan Hendrick - producer, writer and star of Doctor Who: Beseiged
- Phil & Kaja Foglio - creators of the Hugo-winning graphic adventure series Girl Genius
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What We Need - The Impact
The Event Horizon is poised to make some great contributions to Fandom and the world of science fiction.
To make The Event Horizon the best show it can be, we need to take it to where the fans are, where the authors are, and where the most fannish activity is, and that means being at the conventions.
Which, in turn, means we need a production budget so we can take the show on the road!
We've tried a couple out of our own pockets, and we found out that it costs us about $800 per person per trip to get our production staff to these conventions, on average.
Being an internet radio station with transmedia aspirations, we also use the skills and talents of the following kinds of people:
- Writers
- Reporters & Interviewers
- Videographers
- Editors
- Artists & Illustrators
- Programmers
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- Talent scouts
- Disk jockeys
- Producers & Production Mgrs
- Sound engineers
- Voice actors
- Social media mavens
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Its a labor of love for all these people who come together to bring you great new stuff every single day - it's all done by volunteers. It’s something of a miracle that the station even exists with these kinds of daily challenges. Just the server and music licensing costs a bit over $3,500 USD a year, and that's the smallest part of running a radio station.
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What You Get Out Of It
And we do have stretch goals, and they'll blow you away. But we're not revealing them yet.
But the most important thing you get out of it is the knowledge that you've helped make a difference in the preservation and sustenance of that wonderful multiverse we call Science Fiction. In the end, it all comes from people like us who want to share their ideas with others - people just like you. Who knows where the next great writer will come from, or what the next Big Thing will be? Krypton Radio is an idea incubator. By helping us, you're helping Fandom itself.
We have a clear vision of how we're going to rise, and what we're going to do to get there, and the kind of fan-run radio station we want Krypton Radio to be. We're already on the path. We just need a little boost to help us gain altitude. We hope you'll want to be a part of making that happen.
