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A California pet lover has founded an internet
radio station designed to ease the lives of lonely dogs and cats around
the world.
Styled as "the radio station all pets prefer", DogCatRadio.com goes out
live 17 hours each day from a van in the car park of a Los Angeles
recording studio.
DJs speak to pets directly, and ask "pet parents" to send in pictures.
Founder Adrian Martinez, 34, says the station aims to keep pets company
while their "parents" head out to work.
DogCatRadio's daily play list ranges from the soothing sounds of Irish
singer Enya to Elvis Presley's classic anthem, Hound Dog.
In between tracks, Mr Martinez and his fellow DJs
offer practical advice to pet owners, plus a liberal sprinkling of the
station's signature sound - barks and miaows
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Mr Martinez, an independent record producer, hopes that many of his
audience will be listening in while at home alone, albeit with a little
help from their human friends.
"My cat, Snickers, asked me to do it," Mr Martinez told the New York
Times.
Faced with a nervous, restless cat at home one day, Mr Martinez
discovered that Snickers calmed down almost as soon as he turned up the
background music a little.
"I wanted to do something for the pet community," he said.
The station, which claims 8,000 listeners each week through its
website, currently makes no money.
But the US
pet industry is worth an estimated $35bn (￡19.7bn) annually, and
Mr Martinez eventually hopes to attract advertising.
(Agencies) |
為了讓全世界孤獨的小狗小貓不再寂寞，美國加利福尼亞州的一位寵物愛好者近日別出心裁的創辦了一家寵物網絡電臺。
DogCatRadio網絡電臺定位于“所有寵物都喜歡的電臺”，現在每天直播17個小時。該電臺位于洛杉磯某錄音棚停車場的一輛大篷貨車上。
DJ們直接和寵物交流，還要求“寵物家長們”把寵物的照片寄到電臺。
現年34歲的網絡電臺創始人艾德里安·馬丁內茲說這個電臺要在寵物“家長”外出工作時跟寵物作伴。
DogCatRadio每天的節目單包羅萬象，從愛爾蘭歌手恩雅撫慰心靈的歌聲到貓王的經典歌曲《獵犬》。
在一首首好聽的歌曲中，馬丁內茲先生和其他DJ們還會為寵物的主人們提供一些實用性的建議，當然也少不了播放一些該電臺的標志性聲音——狗叫和貓叫。
作為一名獨立廣播制作人，馬丁內茲先生希望廣大寵物聽眾獨自在家時能夠聽聽他的廣播，雖然還是需要人類提供一點幫助。
“是我的小貓Snickers促使我做這件事的，”馬丁內茲先生告訴紐約時報說。
有一天，當馬丁內茲先生在家面對一只煩躁不安的小貓手足無措時，他發現當他把背景音樂的聲音稍微開大一點，Snickers馬上就安靜下來了。
“我想為寵物們做些事。”他說。
這個寵物電臺現在聲稱每周有8000聽眾通過網絡收聽他們的廣播，目前電臺還沒有贏利。
但是，美國的寵物業每年的創收高達350億美元，馬丁內茲先生希望今后能吸引一些廣告。
(中國日報網站薛曉文編譯) |
Updated: 2005-11-07 09:16
