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Jonathan Mosen on Mushroom FM, the Home of the Fun Guys
Hi, I'm Jonathan, a proud member of the Mushroom FM team. I look forward to you tuning in, and saying hi.
About Me
I've been involved with radio from a very early age, having begun being heard by radio listeners in my home town of Auckland, New Zealand, from the age of four. I always wanted to work in broadcasting, so while I was still at high school, I established a licensed radio station at the school for the blind, to demonstrate that blindness was no barrier to working in broadcasting. We funded the whole thing with advertising, and I made many useful radio contacts through inviting them out for a look and to guest host a show.
During and after completion of my degrees in History and Political Science, I worked on a number of commercial radio stations both in broadcasting, and administration. When it was time to start a family however, the crazy deregulated radio market at the time in New Zealand, where stations were regularly changing owners and formats, was no stable place to be. So I've worked in other fields such as Government relations and information technology. While on the Government relations track, I went back to University to complete a Master's degree in Public Policy.
Radio, though, is my first love. I've run a number of low power community FM stations, some of which streamed on the Internet, and founded ACB Radio in 1999, which I directed for 4 years.
I've stood for Parliament twice but the people were too sensible to elect me, been the Chairman of the Board of New Zealand's blindness agency and the President of our blindness consumer organisation (but of course not at the same time), and am a registered hypnotherapist.
I love a wide range of music but am a fanatical Beatles fan and collector. I enjoy public speaking, politics from around the world, radio drama but not Twitter drama, good food and wine, cricket, stimulating conversation, and spending time with my wife and four children, two girls and two boys.
Presented from Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, from studios at Mosen Towers, the Mosen Explosion is four hours of radio that’s full of fun, spontaneity, listener interaction and the very best music ever made. I try to make the show like the ones I enjoyed listening to as a kid, with plenty of jingles, use of funny little audio snippets and a fast pace. Special features include: But mostly, we spend our time playing a huge variety of great music. If I have it, I’ll play it, no matter what the genre or when it was made. Much of what we play is driven by you, and that’s the way we like it. If you're a new listener, we'll induct you as a friend of the show by exploding you. Yes, this is one place where being exploded is actually a good thing! It’s easy to keep in touch with the Mosen Explosion. If you’d like to make a request for the show, Email me any time and I’ll do what I can to help. The address for requests by Email is Jonathan at mushroomfm dot com. You are welcome to follow me on the social networking site Twitter. What’s nice about Twitter is that you can see who else is following the show to. Follow other listeners and you’ll complement what’s happening on the air by chatting with others listening to the same show as you. It can be a lot of fun, much of the listener banter that surrounds the show is really entertaining. Use the #mushroomfm hash tag in your tweets, and others who are not following you but who have an interest in Mushroom FM can read what you tweet. Who knows, you may get a few followers out of it too. Be my friend and I'll be yours...Aw, whatever happened to Barney anyway? If you'd like to write on my wall, or just put another brick in it, Friend me on Facebook.. You can call or text a request to the Explosion Listener Line, either when the show is live, or any time during the week when you think of that song you simply must hear. Record a message, I’ll get it and maybe play it on the air. The number in the United States is 559-42Mosen. That's 559-426-6736. If you would like to be Emailed announcements about what is coming up on the show, as well as information about specials that may be heard from time to time, please subscribe to the Mosen Explosion announcements mailing list. To do so, just send a blank message to: explosion-announce-subscribe@MosenExplosion.com If you would like to receive the same announcements, but also interact with other Mosen Explosion listeners, please send a blank message to: Exploders-Subscribe@MosenExplosion.com This is a low traffic discussion list and you would be welcome. My shows are best heard live, because they are usually very interactive. People who listen later often tell me how frustrating it can be not to be able to participate in all the discussion. But sometimes, life gets in the way, I get that. That's why my shows are available as downloads and podcasts. If you use a podcast client like iTunes, the one built into many Nokia phones, or even the built-in RSS support in Internet Explorer, you can paste the below link into that client so you can receive shows automatically. How cool is that? subscribe to the Jonathan Mosen Mushroom FM podcast Note, the podcast feed URL to paste directly into your podcatcher is http://www.mushroomfm.com/mosenexplosion/feed If all you want to do is download the shows to your computer, that's no problem either. Links that will enable you to download shows directly or listen online are below. The Mosen Explosion
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