Hi all.  We're looking for the optimal way to do an Internet radio
call-in show.  Our plan is to have the authors of books being
interviewed (preferably live with caller Q & A) and play the shows for
visitors to our website.  We anticipate that a couple of thousand
people will probably listen to the show.  Hosted solutions like
Live365 seem perfect for this in terms of providing the
infrastructure.

The biggest question that we have is how to handle the call-in nature
of the show.  There are a lot of teleconferencing solutions out there
but they usually have it set up so that either just the leader can
talk or everyone can talk.  What we want is to set up a queue (just
like a radio station would) and preferably be able to monitor that
queue (pre-screen callers, etc.).

I'm sure there are some very expensive solutions for this geared to
radio stations.  However, we're looking for something a little more
inexpensive and are looking for ideas as to anything that might work.

Thanks!

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Request for Question Clarification by tisme-ga on 28 Aug 2006 16:00 PDT

What approximately is your budget? 

My recommendation at this point would be to have your guests submit
questions via text, and then have a designated reader to read out the
questions (or even a couple different readers). If you have a budget
though, the phone idea might work.

tisme-ga