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Isn’t time off nice? Sadly, it doesn’t last forever, and there wasn’t really all that much time off had for as soon as Season 12 ended, the studio teardown started. This meant unplugging everything (and I mean everything), moving things around, cleaning things, waiting for Christmas to get some new parts, reassembling things, replacing broken …
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Well, would you look at that, TigerTails Radio celebrates another year. Albeit during the Off-Season this time. Back on this day in 2004, TK and Hedgie started wibbling into a couple of microphones to a few people on AOL Instant Messenger. How times have changed… In the 15 years the show has been around we’ve …
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Yes there is now only a day until the restart of TigerTails Radio as Season 11 hits the Internet. There is now only mild panic here in the studio. Tasks for today involve sorting out the playlist, license details, and graphics for the songs; getting the YouTube feed setup, including creating the live stream event …
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Since it’s the weekend before the show, and things are now in full swing to get the show ready for Monday, here’s a couple of pictures showing where TK will be sitting and the buttons he gets to press!

Pain or no pain, the show must go on. There is a lot of equipment that goes into running TigerTails Radio. This is mostly because the show has gained equipment over the years, and has bolted it on to the existing infrastructure rather than out-right replacing things. The only exception to this has been the …
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There was going to be a post here about some of the hardware (other than the PCs) that powers the show. That was the plan. However, our website administrator has spent the day dosed up on morphine suffering with a kidney stone – so today’s blog post will be combined with tomorrow’s to tell how …
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With just 5 days to go, it’s time to delve a little deeper into some of the other more technical areas of how the show works. There are lots of other shows and podcasts out there that do things far more efficiently that is done at TigerTails Radio, but as the show is made from …
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In order to get the studio back up and running after everything was disassembled after Season 10, it was time for TK to get his room sorted. It had become a box-room of chaos so the boxes needed to be shifted, the contents crated up and storage lockered, and new furniture installed. This was a …
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There is now a week to go. Next Monday the first test show of Season 11 begins. But what is a test show? Well… In the early days of TigerTails Radio, we worked with equipment that was a little… less than reliable, let’s say. Our main picture of TK and Hedgie looking worried at the …
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As this weekend is a very busy one, let’s take this day to look back over the last few years of TigerTails Radio. This was filmed just after Season 9 finished and released on TigerTails Radio’s 12th anniversary. Come this July, the radio hits 14 years of being on air. Features photos and videos showcasing …
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The penultimate Saturday before the start of Season 11. And as everyone is busy, this will be a short post – as will tomorrow’s. So let’s take a moment to give a shoutout to an unsung part of the TigerTails Radio equipment. It’s often overlooked as it’s not a big and expensive piece of electronics, …
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The new jingles have arrived, and the new opening jingle will be the first thing heard in Season 11. Get excited! Following on from the post a couple of days ago, these have now been programmed into the app – which is now on revision 6! It has now run into an issue where the …
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This was going to be a short post to announce something… We’re getting some new jingles! Which made me think, while the fact the jingles are powered by an Andriod mobile phone app has been mentioned in the past, we’ve never gone into detail about it. Since we’re doing some behind the scenes posts in …
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For those paying attention, during this downtime between Seasons 9 and 10, the studio is being reformatted so that all the audio equipment is removed from TK’s room and moved into the lounge so that all the cast in the studio can be on camera at once (camera angles allowing). Not just that, but thanks …
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Season 9 has been the first in quite a while where you, the listener, has been able to submit songs for us to play on the show. We play Creative Commons music, or copyrighted music which we have permission to play. When submitting songs to us, we ask that you also provide copyright information for …
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Some people have asked how to get involved as a contestant in the Quiplash games we play on the show, so I thought I’d break down how it normally goes… At 9pm UK time, the news segment is normally starting to end. This is the best time to make sure you’ve tuned in (though, of …
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With ease, TigerTails Radio’s most successful event was the TigerTails Radio Comic Relief Gunge-a-thon 2. Held on Red Nose Day of 2007 (which was Friday 16 March if memory serves), this event gunged 10 furs and raised £700 for the charity. It was also the last episode of Season 2. Below is a clip of …
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With TigerTails now turning 10, let’s have a look back at when the radio celebrated its second birthday way back in 2006. Before the great Comic Relief gunging of Season 2 came the pie-tastic game of Russian Roulette. The concept was quite simple. 6 foam pies would be loaded on paper plates to represent the …
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A clip from Season 1 on the final day of broadcast having gone every single day of the week from 20th July 2004. This was 20th July 2005, and Hedgie decided it would be a good idea to snort a line of Sherbet… Because reasons. With Shep Shepherd on hand to make sure everything is …
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Join us at 10pm GMT tonight for a special show, featuring TK, Hedgie, and Felis as they give 2013 the farewell it deserves, and see in 2014 with a mini celebration. Did you think 2013 was a good year, or a bad one? Join us in IRC and voice your opinions… And if things go …
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With the events of the Drunk Show well and truly erased from our minds (especially in TK’s case), the crew have been hard at work in getting things ready for Season 8. The first challenge was getting the mess that we called TK’s Booth cleaned up and sorted out. This was a problem as a …
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Sometimes we like to look back at the past here on TigerTails Radio, so while you all patiently wait for Episode 41 of Season 7, why not take a look back at some of the fun we had back in Season 6 as “Team Guest” take on “Team Cast” in the first of our version …
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