October 2010
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rainstorm →
Drenching rainstorms like this one we’re having on the east coast tonight remind us of the storm we drove through in South Africa’s Addo Elephant National Park — in the middle of the night, with ranger Headman Nogaya mic’d up. The only difference was thunder, elephants… and lion. Plus lots of eyes in the dark. For everyone heading off to sleep tonight to the sound...
September 2010
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picture it
A snapshot from 6:29pmET, Tuesday 9/28/2010. Alex Ovechkin stands in the locker room hallway that leads to the tunnel, that leads to the ice. We can’t see him, but we imagine him there: shifting his weight from blade to blade, fresh with impatience and possibility. He stands there through the safety announcements and the welcome music, and perhaps he listens for the clatter of a pile of...
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“I’ll play as long as I still have the desire and passion to play. Once that...”
– — Brooks Laich, September 22, 2008
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Hockey Diaries audio bonanza
We’ve just posted “Hockey Diaries: The Almost Season” to our listening site at www.mediachameleon.org. Length is 59-minutes, and you can listen to it online or download it as an mp3, whatever works for you. We’ve also added a bunch of audio clips for each player – six each from Mike Knuble and Tyler Sloan, the two main storytellers in the piece. (Just too many stories, moments and memories to...
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live event redux →
Through the signature video stylings of maestro @brettleonhardt, this recap of the September 10 “Hockey Diaries” listening event in Washington DC…
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thanks for listening
Thanks to everyone who listened last night, and to the audience members who came to the listening session at the XM Sirius studios in DC. It was great for us to be able to listen with you, and we learned a lot from all your comments and questions. If you didn’t catch it, we’ll post the full hour-long documentary as an mp3 on our listening site www.mediachameleon.org by the end of...
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listening post
Hello! Just a quick note tonight to confirm where you can listen to the “Hockey Diaries: The Almost Season” premiere on Friday, September 10. From 7pm-9pmET, Sirius XM host Glenn Younes will present the hour-long documentary, discuss “the-making-of” with various special Caps guests, and take questions from a live studio audience and from callers on the phones. ...
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“You know it’s got to be an attitude, and it starts day one. You can’t just like...”
– — Mike Knuble, September 13, 2009
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friday night lights, mics, action
We’re excited that “Hockey Diaries: The Almost Season” will debut for NHL Radio this Friday night, September 10, at the XM studios in Washington DC. It’ll be on XM204, and on NHL.com — the hour long piece, bookended by some Q&A discussion with both of us producers (sorry!) and others still TBA (much more interesting!). 7pm-9pmET. We’ll tweet...
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AUDIO: A Hockey Diaries extra. In a diary entry...
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AUDIO: Washington Capitals forward Mike Knuble...
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“I don’t really think about … defying expectations. I just show up and put...”
– — Tyler Sloan, January 30, 2010
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september 10 air date
So… it’s September. And our 2009-2010 Hockey Diaries piece hasn’t aired yet (sorry @stonyglenrider, we missed your birthday month!). But the good news is that we *do* have an air-date confirmed now. Please help spread the word… “Hockey Diaries: The Almost Season” will premiere on Friday, September 10, on NHL Radio. And on some public radio stations after that. As soon...
