RantMedia

RantMedia was an independent media organization and serves as the host company for various audio and video projects by James O'Brien and Sean Kennedy, including RantRadio. RantMedia has also distributed content via torrent, various video hosting services, private download, and viral physical media dispersement since its inception in 1999. It last aired on January 3, 2019.

RantMedia was an independent media organization and serves as the host company for various audio and video projects by James O'Brien and Sean Kennedy, including RantRadio. RantMedia has also distributed content via torrent, various video hosting services, private download, and viral physical media dispersement since its inception in 1999. It last aired on January 3, 2019. ===RantRadio=== RantRadio was a commercial-free SHOUTcast Internet radio station that began broadcasting from Langley, British Columbia, and has been 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since January 3, 1999. Its first broadcast was four days after SHOUTcast was officially announced, making RantRadio one of the oldest SHOUTcast radio stations. RantRadio is not supported by sponsorship or advertising and gets permission from all of its artists played to broadcast their work without charge. All shows on the website are covered by Creative Commons. 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. Contributors to RantRadio include Sean Kennedy, Art "Smokehouse" Lindsey, "2 the Ranting Gryphon", Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins. Listening base is worldwide, with fans tuning in as far away as Switzerland. ====Milestones==== July 26, 2000 - Corporate buyers approached O'Brien and Kennedy with an offer to buy the station and were thrown out (a non-disclosure contract prevents the co-founders from discussing the details). July 3, 2002 - RantRadio reaches 5,000 measured listeners April 11, 2003 - Art "Smokehouse" Lindsey, III was appointed by O'Brien and Kennedy to function as program director of RantRadio. November 17, 2003 - RantRadio split into three separate streams of punk, industrial and talk, each with specialty shows catering to each respective format. January 3, 2009 - The 10-year anniversary RantMeet event was held at VanCity theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. January 3, 2019 - The 20-year anniversary "send-off" was aired on YouTube. ===RantTV=== RantTV started after Nullsoft released their video streaming format and broadcaster tools and has been broadcasting 24 hours a day since June 15, 2003. Currently in rotation on RantTV are shows such as old episodes of SKTFMTV, current and past episodes of Patrolling with Sean Kennedy, as well as many other original shows viewer-created for broadcast on RantTV such as Storm The Wire, Obsoleet, RedOctagon Television, Lore's lectures, and R4nger5: Back of Beyond. ===RantPrint=== RantMedia's Internet counterculture 'zine PA1N 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 and later The Scabbed Wings Of Abaddon by Kennedy. ===RantCommunity=== The RantMedia Community is an online forum which has replaced the original RantRadio forums, and also some blogging and workflow management (based upon the drupal package). This section also has a few external links to services provided by some of the fans and volunteers of community, such as the deviantART group for artwork pertaining to RantMedia and Life with Sean, a comic series based on the personalities of RantMedia (drawn by Lindsey). ===RantSpeak=== RantSpeak was a show broadcast live Sundays at 10pm with hosts O'Brien and Lindsey, and had call-ins from fans around the world. The show ran for 43 episodes from January 18, 2004 to January 2, 2005, until it was effectively replaced by NewsReal the next day. ===NewsReal=== NewsReal was a weekly news broadcast recorded by Kennedy and broadcast every Monday on RantRadio. The show was recorded the previous Thursdays in front of a "live" worldwide avatar audience in Second Life, inside a virtual "studio" on the property owned by the group Rant Media Voice. In addition to its syndicated broadcast, NewsReal had the unique capability to be seen "firsthand" in Second Life from anywhere with Internet access while actually being recorded, complete with Kennedy's avatar sitting behind a desk on a set specially created in cyberspace for this purpose. The show was one hour and takes the form of Kennedy addressing and commenting on current news and events mostly submitted by his readership and fan base. Generally, a news blurb from each of several categories is addressed with a counterculture bend, and emphasis is placed upon watchdogging the Corpolitical and observing technological advances coupled with ethical failures. It began on January 3, 2005 as a daily broadcast and switched to a weekly format from January 2006 to present, except for a seven-month hiatus from June 19, 2006 to January 14, 2007. As of June 2009, NewsReal is syndicated on seven radio stations including RantRadio Talk and available on three podcasts, and aired live on Second Life at Node Archers (Coord: 155,74,666) and on pirate shortwave radio 6673.3 kHz. Sean Kennedy ended the show in 2011 at show 500 in order to focus on his new project, Mermanaut. ===Pirate Party Radio=== Pirate Party Radio was a weekly audio show broadcast every Thursday with host James O'Brien. The show focused on news stories relating to Pirate Party platform issues and is the official radio show of Pirate Party of Canada, United States Pirate Party and endorsed by the Pirate Party UK. ===SKTFMTV=== Each episode of SKTFMTV (Sean Kennedy The Fucking Man Television) is a combination of video clips documenting Kennedy's activities. Generally the show consists of social commentary, survivalist activities, and interactions with unusual religious or social groups. Thirteen episodes have been created so far. ===KULT=== KULT (Kennedy's Uber Leet Terrorists) was an organization spawned by Kennedy's anti-establishment rants, described as an ungoverned network of "digital-wet-wired-cyber masons with shovels" who recognize "the dark cyber-world that is coming." As of September 2000, more than 1,000 new visitors logged on to the KULT website each day. Members were divided into "klans" and one went so far as to receive a tattoo of the KULT symbol on his chest. Another got a tattoo of her symbol on her wrist. The group was disbanded among great controversy in 2001, remnants of the membership regrouped into several splinter sites, all of which subsequently dissolved by the early 2010s. ==Advocacy== ==References== ==External links== RantMedia Official website RantRadio Official website RantTV Official website RantRadio on SHOUTcast

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