hey elana,
we used to email back and forth when i wrote for the metal observer!
im glad to see you here!and hell yeah get those speakers!
here is the very first rapture newsletter that went out to approximatly 200 people today thought id post it for ya!
wes/rapture
www.raptureradio.net
December 5, 2003
RAPTURE RADIO NETWORK NEWSLETTER
Hello all and welcome to Rapture Radio Network! We are pleased to be sending out our very first newsletter. We will continue to mail out newsletters around the fifth of every month with updates on how the station and site are doing, new bands featured on the station, and much much more.
Currently, Rapture Radio has listeners from 14 different countries including:
United States (#1 in listening hours)
Canada
Germany
Denmark
United Kingdom
Sweden (#2 in listening hours)
Brazil
Finland
France
Belgium (#3 in listening hours!)
Norway
United Arab Emirates
Australia
Japan
We have over 150 total listening hours, and this is only in a month and a half! Our station is rapidly growing and gaining listeners, for example we already have half as many listening hours in December as we had TOTAL in November.
Rapture Radio also features their own forum, which you can visit at:
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=287
We welcome free speech at our forum and post updates of current bands we are playing, an update on the total listening hours, and countries that are listening. We also offer monthly contests to our listeners, which are posted on the forum as well. The prizes for these contests are furnished by
www.theendrecords.com and other promos or contest prize materials we receive.
Another huge part of Rapture Radio is our affiliates. Affiliates are those who put our banner on their FRONT page, where listeners can go and launch the station directly. Our current affiliates include:
DeathMetal.be
www.deathmetal.be
Blackened Moon Productions
www.blackenedmoon.com
Infest Magazine
http://www.geocities.com/infestmagazine/#
Evil Incarnate
http://www.musicalliance.info/evilinc/home.php
Imagika
http://www.imagikametal.com/
Monument
http://www.monumetal.com/
Another new and great feature we offer at Rapture Radio is our swag. You can wear your favorite metal internet radio station on your chest, your head, or your car! Visit
http://home.earthlink.net/~wesjaques/id11.html for more information!
Rapture Radio Network has put in a lot of hours and hard work into the website to promote the site. We have recently purchased our own domain
www.raptureradio.net and are working on getting hosted and building a new website. Please be patient with us while we work through this process! Were only doing it for you, the listeners, affiliates, and labels!
If youre a band and want your stuff played on Rapture, email Wes at
wesjaques@earthlink.net Or you can mail him your CD (and save yourself some time) to the address on the bottom of the page:
www.raptureradio.net We accept all CDs so mail us your CD now and hear yourself on the radio!
Interested in becoming an affiliate? CONTACT US! You can email Cindy at:
gilkey4@earthlink.net Shell hook you up with all the information you need to know, and remember its free!
Have any questions about the web site? You can email Vanessa at:
ravenous666@cox.net
All of us at Rapture Radio would love to hear your comments, questions, and concerns, so just email us! Were happy to receive your mail and well get back to you as soon as we can. We listen to what youre interested in, and what you want to hear, because thats who makes this station possible is YOU!!!
Wed like to thank everyone for their time today and tune into Rapture Radio Network now to hear the madness!
http://www.live365.com/stations/wesjaques?play
Questions about this newsletter can be sent to Vanessa at:
ravenous666@cox.net
