Monday, October 20, 2014

Welcome to Radio Free Charleston

This is the Archival blog of Radio Free Charleston, the webshow hosted and instigated by Rudy Panucci that launched in 2006 as part of "GazzTV" and has survived to this day as a YouTube-based variety show bringing local music, filmmakers and animators from West Virginia to the world.

Radio Free Charleston is part of the PopCult blog at The Charleston Gazette, and this website is an attempt to organize all the episodes and various spin-off videos in one chronologically-aligned place.

Much of our video archive was wiped out when MySpace committed suicide in the summer of 2013, taking almost one hundred episodes of the show with it. We are remastering, re-uploading and in some cases, restoring those shows and will present them here, if possible, with the original production notes post-dated to their original dates, so that you can trace the show in its original running order. There are some issues with dead links and missing graphics, but we hope that doesn't interfere with your enjoyment of our inane blather.

In May, 2014, MySpace made our old video archives available again, so we will be using those to fill in the missing spaces here while we are still in the remastering phase. We expect this to take some time, and hope you'll bear with us as we build a site where soon we hope many people will waste precious hours at work.

In addition to our full-length episodes, this blog will collect our two "half episodes" from late 2008, and also all of the episodes of The RFC MINI SHOW, which began in 2013 to fill in the space between full-length editions of the show. This blog will also include other videos created by the RFC crew for the PopCult blog.

To keep up with the lastest developments with the show, please visit the PopCult blog and our Facebook page for information on our current episodes.  Radio Free Charleston is still going strong, with both the full-length program and our new RFC MINI SHOWs, and we recently posted episode 200 and have started on our next two-hundred shows.

Thanks for checking us out.

Rudy Panucci

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