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football, but Atwood also broadcasts on the Internet. Information may be accessed through the WATD website, where there is a link to The Alternative's Facebook page. Today's up and coming local music scene is the focus of the second hour of South Shore Live, which is on every Monday from 8pm to 10pm. Produced and hosted by Stan Blackmur (publisher of The South Shore Magazine), the team also includes co-hosts Marshfield Architect/Artist Alan Kearney; Scituate Web business owner Laura Noonan; Cindy Rosenfeld of Hinghamfoodie.com; and Hingham musician and food and beverage executive Tim Curry. The show was created in July 2008 to supplement The South Shore Magazine's quarterly content with more date and time-sensitive features. Every week, the hosts showcase "Who to know, What to do, Where to go" taking listeners anywhere "From Quincy to the Cape, from Brockton to the Beaches." The current format has anything from technology, to restaurant reviews, to boating safety, to lifestyle advice, to professional organizers in the first hour and is followed by live music in "The Hour 9 Lounge." Blackmur said this hour is "the pulse of the show. We get musicians from all over New England playing their original music live over the air every week, from solos, duos to up to 8 musicians! This is Alan, Cindy and my favorite aspect of the show. We have Front Row Seats every week to the area's finest and most talented musicians!" When Blackmur first approached Ed Perry about the show, Perry's advice was to "Keep doing it as long as it's fun. If it's not fun, stop." Blackmur and his merry band of hosts all agree that, "five years later, we're still having a blast!" Tune in and so will you. protection of the environment. "When you watch birds, it opens you up to a lot of things in nature." That appreciation for nature and the environment is evident also in Lou Gainor's Nautical Talk show. He and his sidekick, Skipper Jim, discuss environmental news, maritime history, boating lifestyle features, local waterfront events, and items of interest to local and commercial fishermen in a relaxing, folksy style. He draws on experiences from a lifetime of boating, and summers spent cruising up and down the coast. Attending boat shows, NOAA hearings, and other boating events keeps him in close touch with the boating and fishing communities. His deep knowledge of local maritime history gives him a wealth of stories to tell of storms and shipwrecks. A successful local real estate professional from Hull, Captain Lou said, "I started the show because I eat, sleep, and drink boating. I was always a fan of radio. When I drove toward the Cape, I'd lose the Boston stations, so I became a fan of WATD. I can get the signal everywhere inside 128, 95, up and down Route 6 except for Falmouth. I had been a guest on sports talk shows like Calling All Sports, so, it dawned on me that I should have a nautical show. I walked into the station and talked to Ed." Past shows are available for download at Nautical Talk's website, www.nauticaltalk.com. Lou does include relevant national boating and environmental news, especially when it comes to the commercial fishing industry, but, he says, "I try to keep it local." Keeping it local and accessible is what WATD does best. The tweets that are sent out from WATD's studios on Sunday mornings at 9:30AM are of the avian species, rather than those of the social media variety. For the past 8 years, WATD has been the home nest for Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds, which is also broadcast on 11 stations throughout New England, New York and on the Internet. For 30 minutes, birders from all over the world listen to conversation about wild birds, and call in to play the popular Mystery Bird Contest. Social media, including, yes, Twitter, has caused the show's popularity to explode in the last year. Downloads of the show from Brown's website (www.talkinbirds.com) have doubled from an average of 5,500 last year to about 9,200 this year. A 40-year New England radio veteran, Brown has been a DJ, a news broadcaster, a talk show host, and even a narrator for the instructional Pimsleur Language Programs. The idea for Talkin' Birds began as a segment of another talk show Brown hosted. That show, he remembers, got more calls than any other topic he'd done. His core audience is made up of backyard birders who want to know more about the birds they see every day. That audience is now in all 50 states, 6 Canadian provinces, and 13 other countries including Japan and Australia. Ray Brown said he has had an extensive interest in wild birds. "I lived on the Cape for a long time. Someone gave me a field guide, and I was astonished by the number of birds in New England. The Cape is a great place for birds. Once you get a field guide, it's exciting to see them in person. It's like seeing a celebrity!" The mission of the show, in part, is to promote appreciation and indian summer ~2013 59