We also provide participating stations with Teletour posters in advance that they can copy and distribute to promote the broadcast. The whole idea of Teletouring evolved out of a bit of homemade technology that allows us to connect our studio mixer to a normal phone line and transmit live music over that line with significantly improved audio fidelity. Except for our inexpensive little device, the phone line is the same as everyone else uses. OTE includes an aspect we call Receptical Programming. This is public input to our broadcast via call-ins that are neither screened nor delayed.
Listeners use our on-air phones to play instruments or tapes, sing, dance, rant, rave, or just talk.
When they hear their phone stop ringing, that means they're on the air. The Weatherman would call in too, when he was not doing the show. He would hook the output of a small mixer up to his device, and then to his phone. This phone fidelity device does not exactly produce high fidelity, but it does create a surprising improvement in highs and lows, and provides enough depth for effects such as reverb to work well. Now, several of the regular callers to Over the Edge have these devices, and we continue to encourage listeners to build and use them.