For those of you that have been fol­low­ing MTR on Twit­ter & Face­book, you know that Blog Talk Radio suf­fered some seri­ous issues on Thurs­day night/early Fri­day which resulted in the loss of episode 34. Blog Talk Radio rep­re­sen­ta­tives con­firmed that the show was lost, but sur­pris­ingly enough, some of it has been restored. You’ll be able to lis­ten to about 1hr and 15minutes of the episode. Here is the state­ment from Blog Talk acknowl­edg­ing the issue, as well as a response from me and the fol­low up email as well.

1st Email from BTR:

Hi there,

We are very sorry for any incon­ve­nience. The site did expe­ri­ence tech­ni­cal issues dur­ing your show. Our tech­ni­cians are work­ing dili­gently to ensure this does not hap­pen again. Thank you so much for your under­stand­ing. Please let us know if there is any­thing we can do to help.

Regards,
–S

My Response:

S,
I am very upset at the fact that this hap­pened. I went to great lengths to get these guests from the video game com­pany THQ. Get­ting them back on will be very dif­fi­cult. Not to men­tion that it makes my show look unpro­fes­sional. I am very dis­pleased with the out­come. What steps can I take on my end to pro­tect and/or back up my broad­casts going for­ward?
Rich

Sent via Black­Berry from T-Mobile

BTR 2nd Response:

S,

Again, we would like to apol­o­gize for this incon­ve­nience. There was noth­ing you could do to pre­vent this, it was a tech­ni­cal mal­func­tion that caused this issue. We know how hard hosts work to orga­nize their shows and we are so sorry that this happened.

Again, while unfor­tu­nate, at least some of it has been recov­ered. I will at least need another day or two before upload­ing to iTunes in the event the full episode is recovered.

As you can see the site is being revamped for the new year and a wealth of changes are in store. As of today you can lis­ten to episodes of MTR right on the site. Also a new forum is now active which will be another way for fans and lis­ten­ers to inter­act with each other.

2010 will be an excit­ing year for MTR and I hope you all will come along for the ride.

The MTR art con­test is offi­cially under­way!  Here are the rules:

I am look­ing for the following:

1. Show Logo– Design can be any­thing you want. The only thing I ask is that you use some red and black to keep with the site lay­out. It’s not manda­tory though.
2. Home­page Ban­ner- Ban­ner should include your logo and incor­po­rate some red and black as well. Once again, the col­ors are not manda­tory. Ban­ner size should be 480 x 250.

Rules

• The con­test offi­cially starts on 11/19/09, with all entries need­ing to be sub­mit­ted by 12/10/09.
• Vis­i­tors to the site will get to com­ment on their favorite entries between 12/11/09 and 12/16/09.
• I will choose the win­ner and will announce my choice dur­ing the show’s live broad­cast on 12/17/09.
• No Nudity of any sort in the ban­ner or logo. Entries that vio­late this will not be considered.
• One sub­mis­sion  (ban­ner and logo count as one entry) per per­son please.

Dis­claimer: All sub­mis­sions in the con­test become prop­erty of My Take Radio any can be used at any time to pro­mote the show. Please make sure your art is tagged so that the right credit will be given to you.

Prizes

• 1st place prize will be a $100 giftcard.
• 2nd place prize will be a $50 giftcard.

Due to the reces­sion, prizes will be sent to the win­ners after the Christ­mas holiday…blame the gov­ern­ment and GameStop for giv­ing me $0.25 for my trade-ins.

Please send all sub­mis­sions to MTRHost (at) gmail.com

I have been doing some think­ing and have decided that the wrestling seg­ment maybe run­ning it’s course . Before I removed it though I wanted to hear from the MTR lis­ten­ers to see if the seg­ment needs tweak­ing instead of ter­mi­na­tion. Please vote and help decide the fate of this topic

I have been lis­ten­ing to all your feed­back as well as your sug­ges­tions and will be mak­ing some more changes over the next few weeks.Show 12 will have some new seg­ments i’m work­ing on. I am think­ing of doing a round­table dis­cus­sion on a cer­tain topic before the let­ter bag as well as a “My Take Seg­ment” which will be my rant on a cer­tain topic for the week. Thanks to Josh for those sug­ges­tions. As always everyone’s feed­back is welcome.