Rant Media

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Sean Kennedy and James O'Brien filming "Patrolling with Sean Kennedy"

RantMedia is a commercial-free internet media outlet with an internet radio and internet television station broadcasting from the suburbs of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1 Media outlets
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Media outlets

RantMedia was born when RantRadio founder James O'Brien decided to move the station into the world of Internet TV broadcasting.

O'Brien does all the behind the scenes stuff for RantRadio, and keeps it up and running. Apart from editing the shows, he has been a member on many shows, including Sean Kennedy Radio Show, Sean Kennedy TV Show, SKTFMTV, Patrolling With Sean Kennedy and the WhatTheHell?!? Show. In early 2004, he and Art "Smokehouse" Lindsey, III put on the weekly show RantSpeak which ended late 2004. He co-hosted NewsReal with Sean Kennedy on Mondays up until the show went on hiatus after the 281st show on June 19th, 2006.

Since that time, RantMedia has also launched an independent record label of the same name, entered the worlds of e-book, 'zine publishing, and the world of book publishing with the publication of its first book: The Bloodstained Rabbit by Sean Kennedy.

[edit] RantRadio

RantRadio is a SHOUTcast station that began broadcasting on January 3, 1999 from the suburbs of Vancouver, British Columbia. Arguably the oldest SHOUTcast based streaming radio station [1], it was founded by James O'Brien, also known as Cimmerian, and his then roommate Derek, also known as Enki.

RantRadio is a commercial-free Internet radio station that broadcasts continuous streams 24 hours a day. The station is not supported by sponsorship or advertising. RantRadio gets permission from all of the artists played to broadcast their work without charge. In return, the artists benefit from greater exposure. All shows on the website are covered by Creative Commons a new term recently introduced to the Internet. This license allows a user to freely copy, distribute, transmit and host content in any way as long as it is not used for a commercial purpose. Only the original artist has the right to do such a thing.

Some time in 2001, Art "Smokehouse" Lindsey, III was appointed by Cimmerian (O'Brien) and Sean Kennedy to function as program director of RantRadio. It was under his direction that the station gained enough popularity and success to split into three separate streams, each with their own format: punk, industrial and talk. Currently, all three streams have specialty shows catering to that format's specialty. All of the bandwidth is donated by fans of the station.

RantRadio is part of a larger independent media organization known as RantMedia. Additionally, RantRadio is also the internet radio home of radio personality Sean Kennedy, Smokehouse, 2 the Ranting Gryphon, Mark Hopkins, Dan Tencer and many other popular underground radio hosts.

2 Sense was one of the more cultly followed shows that ran for 3 years. It was hosted by 2 the Ranting Gryphon and has had a variety of people on the show with set jobs. Starting out with only 2 and Jakebe his co-host, they read out e-mails, the news, and "furry news" based around the furry Fandom. In time Jakebe left the show only to return on rare occasions. Rikku, Prismo, Dax, and Adric all co-hosted until Aubrin became the new co-host permanently until the assumed final show aired in mid 2005, leaving 2 to concentrate on his music and rants available from his website. Although the show has returned as of November 2006, 2 has not stated when, if at all, the show will go back to its live format or if Rant Radio will host the bandwidth for it.

GAMERadio is the only show on RantRadio aimed directly for gamers. Discussing video games, movies and music, it appeals to a different audience and gives something other than the political and news oriented programs that RantRadio is known for. The host, known by the pseudonym C4, is a hardcore gamer and along with Kobar and other co-hosts. They often discuss console and computer games including such consoles as NES and PlayStation 2. They are well known for discussing PC games, in particular RPG or MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) for which they often play online with the GAMERadio listeners. They have been recording the downloadable online show since February, 25, 2003 and were added to the RantRadio stream at a later date.

Binary Revolution Radio is a weekly show about computer security that is aimed mostly at computer hackers. The show was originally hosted by StankDawg, until it was handed over to Black Ratchet and Strom Carlson in July 2005.

[edit] RantTV

After a highly successful and popular run as an internet radio broadcaster, RantRadio founder O'Brien decided to translate that momentum into the visual realm. After a few false starts, RantTV emerged after Nullsoft released their NSV video streaming format and broadcaster tools. RantTV has been broadcasting 24 hours a day since June 15, 2003.

Currently in rotation on RantTV are such signature shows as old episodes of 'SKTFM.tv,' current and past episodes of 'Patrolling with Sean Kennedy,' as well as many other original shows viewer-created for broadcast on RantTV. RantTV also airs shows syndicated from other independent media organizations.

[edit] RantPrint

RantMedia's Internet zine PA1N is now on its seventeenth issue which is written and maintained by the Rant community. Rant has self published a limited edition run of 250 copies of the paperback The Bloodstained Rabbit authored by Sean Kennedy. In April 2007 RantMedia will be publishing their second book the The Scabbed Wings Of Abaddon also authored by Sean Kennedy.

[edit] RantCommunity

The RantMedia Community is a relatively new addition to the RantMedia empire, with an online forum which has replaced the original RantRadio forums, and also some blogging and workflow management (based upon the drupal package). Eventually, the community site will envelope and replace all the existing web functionality, but with the dozens of shows and subdomains operated by RantMedia, this transition will take some time. This section even has a few external links to services provided by some of the fans and volunteers of community, such as IRC Stats (hosted by [-_-]Pi), the DeviantArt group for artwork pertaining to RantMedia, or Life with Sean a comic series based on the personalities of RantMedia (drawn by Art "Smokehouse" Lindsey, III).