There was conflicts along the way and we barely made to season one when it was cancelled due to lack of advertisers. The first shows were a bunch of guys (too many) talking genre and pop culture but that was not what I wanted. I wanted much more. Through a bookstore owner I knew in Manhattan I have a call in interview with Michael O’Hare who was starring in Babylon 5 at the time.

After a few years not doing anything I decided to buy air time on a New York station in 1996, and with Ernest Lilley we launched it on a 50,000 watt radio station. We started to get great guests George R.R. Martin, Joss Whedon and all looked like the show arrived. Ernest’s sharp witty comments with me anchoring the show made for good radio. Time Out New York and the New York Daily News even posted our up coming guests. But the money drained my bank account and due to lack of sponsors we failed again.

Ernest Lilley my co-host (SFRevu) suggested I try podcasting in 2005 and I signed on with pioneering Libsyn and as a podcast it was reborn. Over 1,000,000 downloads later I had found an international audience. I stuck to having a guest driven podcast and included composers, writers, and other key contributors to genre entertainment. After podcasting a few years I created Time Capsule, a series withing my podcast feed that is a magazine interview driven podcast I have attended and covered The Tribeca Film Festival, San Diego Comic Con, and New York Comic Con in the past. The convention interviews are usually roundtables but I will have one-on-ones to. I conduct other interviews via Zoom.

In 2000, I created a network on Spreaker. I had several podcasts going at the same time. My downloads increased to about 200,000. But I felt that it was better to have all the episodes in one feed and for other reasons, I moved to Podbean in 2002. After some roadblocks due to my own errors, my podcast re-established itself. Now at 75,000 downloads. And it in 2004, another opportunity as youtube was now hosting podcasts. With my channel, there I could also post videos in my feed there. With both of those distribution lanes, I hope to do even better in the coming years. 

Tony Tellado