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in June of 2007, Brian Smith started doing an internet radio show called
"The Midday BS" from 10am - 2pm every weekday on CFMMusic.com,
the self proclaimed "#1 Internet Radio Station," run by
"Uncle Mike" Selvanto. Brian took great pride in doing his
show and was excited to show off his talents and useless pop culture
knowledge. Often times, Brian would invite his late friend Dave to
stay and do the show with him, which made for great radio banter between
the two men.
For several weeks, "Uncle Mike" put Brian through
format changes daily which disheartened Brian and angered the listeners of the
show which had come to like the way Brian was doing his show and the type
of music he was playing when he got to choose his own music.
"The Midday BS" was originally slated to be a
"70's and 80's heavy Adult Contemporary" show that included
features like, "The Midday BS Soundtrack Songs of the Day,"
"The 80's Midday Lunch Break," and "BS Artist of the
Day." 
After "Uncle Mike" started changing the format on
him, Brian was forced to play music that his listeners didn't want to
hear. One day it was all 50's and 60's music, one day it was all
country music and another day he almost had to play nothing but Latin
music. At the end, seeing these format changes were not breaking
Brian's stride, "Uncle Mike" even went so far as to set up an
elaborate ruse and put a foul mouthed "sidekick" with Brian
called "Bobby Flanagan" who was later to be revealed as Bridget
Brown, a girl who had interviewed with "Uncle Mike" for a DJ
position with CFMMusic.com.
The "Bobby Flanagan" episode of "The Midday
BS" marked it's ultimate demise. Listeners of the show were
outraged with the format changes that "Uncle Mike" had imposed
and did not like the "Bobby Flanagan" stunt at all. They
emailed "Uncle Mike" and let him know under no uncertain terms
that they wanted to hear the show as Brian used to do it, the way it was
originally conceived. This resulted in "Uncle Mike"
promptly canceling the show later that afternoon after Brian had left.
In the middle of July, exactly six days after "The
Midday BS" got cancelled, so did CFMMusic.com. Differences
between "Uncle Mike" and "Cousin Steve" Palo caused the
severing of their business parnership, and the radio station closed down.
 By the
end of July, 2007, Brian decided that he really enjoyed doing his show and
felt that he should continue to do it, but that it couldn't be done at
CFMMusic.com due to the constant creative differences between "Uncle
Mike" and himself, despite "Uncle Mike" asking repeatedly if
Brian was ready to come back and do things the way "Uncle Mike"
wanted them done.
Brian bided his time and made preparations to launch his own
radio station on the internet. And thus, by the end of August 2007,
with the help of his fiancée Deb, and some of his friends, he gathered the
necessary finances and resources to build BPSRadio.com. BPS are
Brian's initials and thought that it suited the new vision that he had for
his radio station: a station run by him, programmed by him, with the music
that people want to hear. While sticking primarily within the "no
rap, no hip-hop, no country" limitations, he decided that he wanted to
play music for the masses. His new motto? "Playing what
you want to hear!"
"The Morning Rant," BPSRadio.com's morning show,
started broadcasting live on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 and
starts at 8am and runs until noon, EST. Replays of each day's show
play at 4pm that same day. Occasionally on nights and weekends when
Brian has free time, he'll often go live on the air and play music request
shows for his audience.
Two listeners from his CFM days, Tony and Nika had followed
Brian's progress and started listening when he started BPSRadio.com.
Nika suggested that Brian call his new show, "The Midnight Music Whore
Radio Show". Brian was curious about how the name would be
perceived but Nika explained that it was innocent enough. "You
are on the air around midnight, and you whore yourself out to play the hard
music we all want to hear," Nika explained. It all made sense to
Brian and the name stuck. On December 10, 2007, "The Midnight
Music Whore Radio Show" was born! Brian did both "The
Morning Rant" and "The Midnight Music Whore Radio Show" for
several weeks but eventually it got to be too much to do both radio
shows. In the long run, "The Midnight Music Whore Radio
Show" won out as the more popular show and still runs till this day.
 In
November of 2008, Brian entered into a partnership with another radio group
called LoseTheRadio.com and started simulcasting live streams of that
station's radio shows which previously could only be heard on PalTalk.
The test show for this venture was Broadcasting Under the Influence or BUI
Radio. The show was a successful addition to BPSRadio's programming
schedule which prompted the partnership to add other LoseTheRadio.com shows
like "The Clutch and Wiggle Experience", "Fred From
Brooklyn" and "The NoFate and Razor Show."
 During this partnership
with LoseTheRadio, BPSRadio's website was updated by Wayne from BUI Radio
to reflect what you see today. BPSRadio's new updated logo is
courtesy of "Martianvirus" from the LoseTheRadio.net Message
Board of which BPSRadio is an integral part.
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