The Dan & Scott Show

The Dan & Scott Show was an uncensored comedy program named for it's hosts named after the hosts, Dan Schulz and Scott Wirkus. The show is credited as pioneering internet radio, with it's uncensored comedy format that is now more commonplace both online and in satellite radio formats such as XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996485,00.html|title= Live from Your Basement...|last=Winters|first=Rebecca|date=Monday, Mar. 27, 2000|work=Time] cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADA33905E7306B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Pioneers talk their way to new multimedia frontier A handful of journalists, broadcasters and just plain folks are creating shows exclusively for the Internet.|date= August 7, 1997|work=Atlanta Journal Constitution]

The show was first made available as downloadable audio, an early form of podcasting, on AOL in 1995. It debuted as in live streaming audio format on April 1, 1996 first via Broadcast.com. Throughout the show's five year run, it moved from between several streaming providers such as Audionet, Audioactive, Talkspot.com, Radio HTB, and finaly Eyada.com. They had the show on radiofun.com for a number of years as well.

The show was one of the few kept by Eyada in their restructuring attempts but in the end both the Dan and Scott show and Eyada failed to survive the tail end of the dot com crash of 2000-2001 due to Eyada's financial troubles. [cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MWSB&p_theme=mwsb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EDC6DA98766E007&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=eYada.com to cease Internet broadcasts|last=CUPRISIN|first=TIM |date=July 11, 2001|work=Milwaukee Journal|accessdate=2008-07-07] [cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MWSB&p_theme=mwsb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB82E5DC5291F69&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Internet talk radio team escapes Grim Reaper|last= CUPRISIN|first=TIM |date=January 18, 2001|work=Milwaukee Journal|accessdate=2008-07-07]

The show first received national attention when Rick Rockwell, the bachelor from Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? appeared on the show making a plea for contestants. The show also received attention for the weekly Survivor predictions from regular show caller "Jesus". [cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/05/03/DD120487.DTL|title=Which 'Survivor' will finish first?|last=Carman|first=John |date=Thursday, May 3, 2001|work=San Francisco Chronical |accessdate=2008-07-07]

After trying to find another site to broadcast the show, it became apparent that the dot.com crash had killed all the viable streamed radio sites on the market. After trying to work deals with many networks outside the streaming world in 2001-2002 they had a meeting with HBO. But HBO wanted a sanitized version of the show, Dan and Scott sumbmited a censored demo that exists but felt they just couldn't do the show HBO wanted. Then it was XM and Sirius to also ask for a clean version of the show, it did not come to fruition there. Big supporter of the show and Eyada owner Bob Meyrowitz offered them a chance for a nationally syndicated morning radio show. Bob's big plan was for them to take on Howard Stern.Ultimately though, Scott and Dan decided to stop doing the show, they announced it was going on hiatus on August 24 2002.fact|date=July 2008

As of September 2001, Dan lives in Brooklyn, New York where he works in marketing [cite news|url=http://danandscott.com/pages/bio_dan.asp|title= Dan Schulz Bio|date=September 17, 2001 |work=Dan and Scott Show|accessdate=2008-07-07] , while Scott does radio production and DJs on FM radio stations in Wisconsin. [cite news|url=http://danandscott.com/pages/bio_scott.asp|title=Scott Wirkus Bio|date=September 15, 2001|work=Dan and Scott Show|accessdate=2008-07-07]

External links

* [http://www.danandscott.com The Dan & Scott Show]
* [http://www.ryanmcbain.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=40 The Freak Army fan site]

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