KVXN Back On The Air

 

After being offline for months, yesterday on Monday Nydia Tungsten announced that her SL station, KVXN, was back and operational.

 

KVXN is back in SL where I started all those years ago, feel free to tune in to the Randomness that is "The Vixen of Vixen Radio" http://acastream.us:7223 No DJ's, No Commercials, No Drama, just what I am listening to. Feel free to tune in and sing along with me to our old favorites! 

KVXN Radio began in 2011, a 24 hour SL stream for the Happy Vixen and other clubs under White Vixen Enterprises to play between parties.

DJ Fritter has Died

 

Some sad news for fans of KVXN Radio. It was announced yesterday that one of it's DJs, DJ Fritter had passed away. JB Raccoon, the co-owner of the station, gave details on the station's Discord channel yesterday afternoon. She was also known as DJ Applebloom and Hakura the Pup.

For those that may not know, it had been relayed to us that we recently lost DJ Fritter AKA Hakura the Pup. Details are still limited outside her having that nasty car accident last year that kept her off air here so she would be able to heal. Sadly, her health kept her from being able to return to the things she loved. I received word that the accident, while not having taken her life at the time, ultimately was the cause of her passing by taking away the very things she enjoyed most. She was not ever going to be able to walk again, which meant no more entertaining folks of all ages in that giant oven of a fursuit, or sharing her love of music like she had before.

 Her death is believed to have been last week, from injuries suffered in a car accident last year.

In August 2020, DJ Fritter was interviewed by the Newser. She had been DJing in Second Life for some years, at places such as "Hoof Beatz" and "Dragons and Roses" before coming across JB's show, then doing so under KVXN.

Addition: The car accident was on April 15, 2021. Her real-life name was Dawn Holland.

Bixyl Shuftan

Interview with DJ Fritter/Applebloom

Besides her account name of JeanetteDJennet Resident, Applebloom goes by a couple other names. In real life conventions, she adopts the persona "Hakura the Pup." At KVXN Radio, she's known as "DJ Fritter." I recently had an interview with her, and how she got from newcomer in 2011 to virtual race car driver and one of the Internet radio station's noted personalities.

Read the interview in People.

JB Raccoon Needs A Hand

JB Raccoon, the co-owner of KXVN Radio, has run into some financial difficulties. The reason: some paperwork snafus that have thrown a monkey wrench into his Social Security income.

"I am STILL trying to sort everything out however after I pay my rent that leaves me with $30 to pay my other expenses including my medication refills which the reality is, I just can't make it. So here I am calling for help, hoping to raise the funds so I can cover my expenses while I fight to get this sorted."

JB has set up a Gofundme page for donations. His goal is $1000 USD. 

"Thank you in advance to all that help, my words would never be able to describe how appreciative I will be."

Addition: For some reason, Gofundme took the page down. Those who already sent cash will have it refunded. JB is also accepting help via Paypal : paypal.me/jbraccoon .

New Office For KVXN

KVXN, jointly owned by Nydia Tungsten and JB Raccoon, is getting a new office. They recently invited the Newser over to take a few pictures.

The two story structure has a lobby, and a studio area for live broadcasting.

KVXN was once a 24 music stream that while doing decently at several venues, Nydia felt it could do more. Teaming up with JB, it expended to become an Internet radio station with growing numbers of listeners in and out of Second Life.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Geerkil%20Land/196/137/1366

KVXN's New Logo

KVXN got it's start in 2011 as Nydia Tungsten's 24/7 radio station for fans to listen to between her DJ sessions. It got a following in the Sunweaver/Angels community with nicknames like "Rita's other white meat" (Rita Mariner is the leader of the Sunweavers). But in recent months, KVXN has gone through some changes. Now a full fledged Internet radio station, many of it's listeners tune in from outside Second Life. With the change comes a new shiny logo. It was revealed yesterday.

"For a good time with a bad girl, KVXN Radio."

 http://listen.kvxnradio.com/

KVXN Back Online After Technical Difficulties

KVXN, the radio stream of White Vixen Enterprises, and the Happy Vixen beach club, has been experiencing some technical difficulties for the past few weeks when the stream it was on gave out. It had been on some temporary ones, which were less than perfect.  But now everything's fixed.

KVXN IS BACK! We now have the stream fiasco solved and done, and we are hoping this will be our last stream move, you can now find us here at http://www.st-media.ca:8110/ tune in and enjoy!

So if you can't make it to the Happy Vixen during its party times, feel free to listen to the KVXN stream on the Internet. Or listen to Farshore Radio.

Several Clubs to Protest SOPA/PIPA by Closing for a Week

Nydia Tungsten, whom has been helping to run several clubs in Second Life, posted the following in several of her groups:

To bring attention to the SOPA/PIPA bills in congress the following clubs would like you to know what SL will be like if they pass

Club Zero Gravity
The Happy Vixen
Club Fur
H.M.A.S. Little dove
Castaway Cove Beach

will all have NO events for 7 days
and KVXN will go silent for 24 hours on Thurs Jan 19.


Talking to Nydia, the following song would be played at her clubs during the KVXN blackout, "The Day the LOLCats Died," a song parody written against SOPA and PIPA.

Happy Rezzday Nydia

On Monday December 12th, Nydia Tungsten, the owner of Club Zero Gravity and the Happy Vixen clubs & the KVXN SL radio station, the head of the FCA club alliance, and a longtime friend of Second Life Newser, had a surprise rezzday party thrown for her by her friends.

The party lasted for a few hours, giving those not in the know a chance to show up and join the fun, including a number of FCA DJs, Green Meadows Ballroom owner Perri Prinz, and Daaneth Kivioq of the Relay for Life team "Passionate Redheads."

Nydia was very happy for the party, thanking everyone for this display of friendship.

RFL: The Redheads' "Last Blast"

On Thursday night 6PM SL time in the Southern Colorado sim, the Passionate Redheads Relay for Life team got together for one final event of their own for the Relay season. Dubbed "The Last Blast Party," it was to celebrate their fundraising this year, in addition to looking back on the fun they had. The event was sponsored in part by KVXN Radio.

Daaneth Kivioq was the DJ for the event, and with the walk around the track so much on their minds, most of the songs he played were about walking. The tunage included Phil Collins' "On My Way," "Footloose," "We Did the Walk of Life," Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again," Johnny Cash's "Walk the Line," and Elvis Presley's "Blue Suede Shoes," and "Never Walk Alone." Someone had a birthday, so the Beetles' song "Hey Hey, It's Your Birthday" was also played. And a team favorite, "Calypso."

Probably a total of two dozen attended the party, more than a dozen at any one time. Further donations for the Relay were accepted instead of tips, many of which came from purchases of a Passionate Redheads' calendar, made by Timber Wolfenhaut, whom also had the privilege of taking all those pictures of the girls in their swimsuits. Also for sale for charity was a cookbook. And the awards won by the Redheads were also on display, such as the gold and platinum awards.

As 8 PM neared, Daan played one final song, in honor of Artistic Fimicloud, with fireworks going off overhead, illuminating the "Little Dove" blimp overhead, "Run for Life"

I run for hope, I run to feel

I run for the truth, for all that is real

I run for your mother, your sister, your wife

I run for you and me my friend

I run for life

And after that, the Redheads went their seperate ways, some looking forward to next season. Over 5,000 Lindens were raised at the "Last Blast."

Bixyl Shuftan

RFL: The Last Blast Party (Rescheduled)

Please join me, DJ Daan, on Thursday July 28th, at 6PM, for one last blast, as we say goodbye to this years Relay For Life! I will be doing a long set of songs about walking, as the 24 hours we walk the track at Relay is the focus and culmination of the event. All proceeds from this event will benefit the American Cancer Society. Sponsored by the Passionate Redheads and KVXN Radio.

Hope Gardens, Southern Colorado (162, 42, 25)

Daaneth Kivioq

The Last Blast for the Redheads - *Canceled*

*This event has been canceled due to technical dificulties - will be schedued later this week*

Please join me, DJ Dapper Daan, on Monday July 25th, at 6PM, for one last blast, as we say goodbye to this years Relay For Life! I will be doing a long set of songs about walking, as the 24 hours we walk the track at Relay is the focus and culmination of the event. All proceeds from this event will benefit the American Cancer Society. Sponsored by the Passionate Redheads and KVXN Radio.

Hope Gardens, Southern Colorado (162, 42, 25)

Daaneth Kivioq

SL Newser Radio Ad on KVXN Vixen Radio

Shockwave Yareach recently voiced and made this radio ad for the KVXN Radio Station. It plays between songs on the stream, at random times.

"For a second look at Second Life."

KVXN Vixen Radio

DJ and club owner Nydia Tungsten now has a new title, radio station owner. She calls it KVXN Vixen Radio, and it can be heard at her clubs or on the Internet.

Nydia told Second Life Newser she had first got the idea when, “I had finished a marathon set of 8 hours and told Rita (Rita Mariner the Sunweaver Estate owner) would just let the stream go, and she told me ‘go ahead, hardly any of the radio tabs work anyways.’ And I started thinking since I stream to my parcels almost 24/7 anyways, might as well call it a radio station.”

“I had forgot about it until a few days ago when I was with some friends and it came up (in conversation), and we began throwing out funny slogans, like ‘KVXN Vixen radio...Rita's other white meat.’ Daan (Daaneth Kivioq, a leader of the “Passionate Redheads” RFL team) was throughing them out so you KNOW some were off the wall, ‘KVXN Vixen radio...we may not be better than sex......but it's hella foreplay.’ “

“Soo the other day, I decided to go ahead and do it. If it does well, I will get a larger stream. ... I have a few people listening right now. I have a little bit of everything.” She told me her listeners were all at the Cutlass club for the moment, who wanted 80’s music, so the majority of her tunes at the moment were from the 80’s. Besides Nydia’s venues, residents of the Sunweaver Estates, have started tuning their private homes to her stream. Nydia says she may also put up a few ads in the near future, though they'll need to be catchy and entertaining themselves to hold the audience.

For those who want to hear Vixen Radio outside Nydia’s places, there is a KVXN group one can join for the stream URL, or just bookmark it here: http://www.st-media.ca:8110/

It should be noted Nydia is sometimes known as DJ “Naughty” Nydia as some of her music can be a bit riskee at certain times, “KVXN Vixen Radio where the random tunes are ..... random.”

“KVXN Vixen Radio, it isn’t just for foxy people any more.”

Bixyl Shuftan

*Edit* Stream location on Internet later moved and article edited to show.