Krypton Radio

Krypton Radio plays adventure movie and TV soundtracks, new talent from the world of science fiction fandom, comic books, anime, original programming, news on internet culture, radio serials and all the weird cool stuff you could never find all in one internet radio station – until now!

Our site gets between a quarter million and a half million hits a month, depending on the content we’ve been running that month – and we have a listener base in the thousands, from 108 countries around the world. Our demographic is science fiction, fantasy and comic book fans roughly between the ages of 14 and 65. We’re family oriented, and safe for work (and kids).

Where We Began

“Krypton Radio” was originally created by and for users of the online service Second Life, by a user group known as the League of Heroes, also known in-world as the Justice League Unlimited. The station went on the air in April 2009 to become a full service news and media site, and began 24 hour round-the-clock broadcasting May 4, 2009, one month after the group’s third-year anniversary.

Krypton Radio is fully licensed and pays all broadcast royalties.

As you’ve probably heard, it’s illegal to operate an internet radio station without being licensed either directly through BMI and ASCAP, through SoundExchange or through a sublicensing service such as LoudCity.com as Krypton Radio does.

We honor the rights of musicians and their publishers to be paid for performances of their music, and have been licensed for internet broadcast since our debut in April 2009.

Krypton Radio is listener supported, fully licensed internet radio. Your contributions help make our round-the-clock listening experience and fine programming possible.

Where Do We Get Our Music?

Krypton Radio plays music selected from television shows, motion picture soundtracks and from fan sources and independent fan music producers – you may be surprised at the eclectic mix of genres, and will often hear music that takes you back to your childhood memories of your favorite comic book characters or shows. A lot of our pop and rock comes from TV shows like Smallville, and other modern productions that let us give you soundtrack music and still have a fresh, cutting edge sound. A surprising amount comes from Creative Commons License sources and the fans themselves.

Krypton Radio is the only internet radio station in the world (as far as we know) that draws exclusively from these sources for its material, and we will continue to bring you the best in geek entertainment.

We’re family-compatible, too – no crass DJ’s, no foul or explicit language. (Yes, you can let your pre-teens listen to it without concern.)

Know of a tune or sound track you think would be great for Krypton Radio? Email us at kryptonradio (at) kryptonradio.com and let us know the artist, song title and album and we’ll try to get it and put it in our regular play schedule. If you have a YouTube link, send us that – sometimes a fan made song will appear only there and nowhere else, and a fair amount of our music comes from the sci-fi fans themselves!

Writing for Krypton Radio

Krypton Radio accepts freelance articles for publication. Writers retain their copyright to articles, but we prefer articles that have not been submitted elsewhere. This is a great way to build up your “street cred” as a writer or blogger, and we hope to be able to pay for articles in the near future. (Yes, for the moment, we can’t pay for articles – we expect this will change in the next few months.)

Submitted articles should be between 500 and 1800 words (less is okay, more is okay – these are just guidelines). There should be one at least one illustration or graphic of some kind. There can be more.

There should be a synopsis or abstract of the article between 140-400 characters long for the RSS feed, and another that’s under 160 characters for the Twitter/Facebook feed.

Articles should be newsworthy and/or topical to our content, i.e., internet culture, comics, scif-fi, fantasy, fandom, cool science, astronomy/physics, gaming and MMO’s.

Krypton Radio reserves the right not to publish submitted articles. Articles (with pictures as attachments, if any) can be submitted by email to submissions (at) kryptonradio.com. If you are writing from or about an MMO such as Second Life, please include your in-world avatar name when submitting articles, or your pen name otherwise. Authors of longer articles may be asked for a short 50-150 word biography for an “about the author” box at the end of the article when published.

Producing for Krypton Radio

Krypton Radio is seeking new on-air productions. You must be prepared to do your own production, and shows must be submitted as finished MP3 format files. Program lengths as short as three minutes will be considered, and weekly shows are preferred to single, one-off productions unless the show is a substantial work. Producers must agree to allow Krypton Radio to use their shows in accompaniment with on-air advertising. Shows must mention the fact that they are appearing on Krypton Radio within the first minute of the show’s audio track, and again during the end credits.

Submit your ideas and production proposals to thepitch (at) kryptonradio.com.

Krypton Radio Editorial Policy

Krypton Radio is not a discussion board. Submitted articles must be either factual in nature or clearly marked as editorials, or as works of fiction if being submitted for Krypton Universe. Comments on articles must be on topic and not abusive, trolling, inciteful of flame wars, racist, or profane. We reserve the right to reject any comment for any reason we see fit, or no reason at all.

On occasion we may ammend or alter previous articles. We have that right, and do so because we feel it is more organized than a patchwork of “update” articles all over the place.

Krypton Radio Privacy Policy

Krypton Radio values and protects your privacy. Email addresses used in making comments and the IP addresses related to those will not be resold or shared with third parties. We also will not contact posters via those email addresses unless specifically requested to by the poster.

The Krypton Radio Staff

Station Management	Susan L. Fox, Executive Producer Gene Turnbow, Programming Director/Proprietor
Editors	Gene Turnbow, Managing Editor "PK", Editor
Staff Writers	Vagabond "Tony" Carter Samantha Lowell Susan L. Fox Gene Turnbow "PK" ZenMondo Wormser Jeremiah C.
Production	Vagabond Carter
On-Air	Rodimal Axon Vagabond Carter "Captain Krypton" Gawyn Philbin Kara Timtam Gene Turnbow ("Kalel Venkman", "Paladin Proto")

Contact Us

Krypton Radio is based in Los Angeles, California. No, we don’t have a brick and mortar location you can visit, but you can reach us via one of the following email addresses:

What You Need	How to Reach Us
General Station	kryptonradio@kryptonradio.com
Editor's Desk	editor@kryptonradio.com
Story Submissions	submissions@kryptonradio.com
Advertising Desk	advertising@kryptonradio.com
Pitch a Show!	thepitch@kryptonradio.com
Vagabond "Tony" Carter	ironinbox@kryptonradio.com

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“Second Life” and related terms are trademarks of Linden Research, Inc.

“Justice League Unlimited” and related terms are trademarks of DC Comics, a division of Warner Communications Inc. No affiliation with DC Comics, Warner Communications or their affiliates is expressed or implied. The group by the name “Justice League Unlimited” does not operate as a commercial entity within the Second Life online service, and no products related to intellectual property owned by DC Comics are distributed by Krypton Radio in any form.

Official statements about Krypton Radio, its staff, its related groups such as the League of Heroes or the Second Life group Justice League Unlimited, Phantom Zone, GridWatch, Krypton Universe and other affiliated groups come only from Krypton Radio and its staff. No other entities have been authorized to speak for us, or represent our interests in any way.