Nighttime radio in the U.S. needs more than Rick Sanches and whatever else is on. And I know that Art Bell's fabulous Coast-to-Coast days have been followed by George Noway's successive shows, but I have an idea that would go up against anything that's on.
A program about dreams and dreaming, with the main feature being callers sharing dreams they've had and discussion of those dreams by other listeners and dream researchers. For the record, I don't want to host such a show, we need a gifted newcomer to pilot the effort.
I don't see it working on a part 15 station because there aren't enough listeners in a small area, but it could work as an online stream and even more so on a network of full power stations.
So, for the time being, I'll bring a dream of mine to the Forum for the sake of entertainment.
I was on duty around 3 AM on a popular rock station playing vinyl records and while songs played I hung around the receptionist's desk down the hallway and she and I sort of "struck it up", so to speak, meaning we began exchanging fond eye contact. So I ran back and forth, changing the record and then visiting the receptionist. Then, on one hallway dash she had walked half-way toward me, took me by the hand back to her desk and asked, "Would you like to play a game of solitaire?" Within the dream I was logical enough to wonder how two people could play solitaire, but I trusted that she knew a way. Soon we were interrupted as two executives came in the entrance in full suit and tie, and I realized I was ignoring the air duties, rushed back to find the record clicking in the end-groove. I assumed the executives were there because of my dead air, but later, after I woke up, I figured they might have had other motives. Anyway, in the dream I introduced a new song while the two suits kept busy doing something in another part of the studio. As I woke up I didn't know if I was about to be fired.
As I write this I am fully awake.