AA SPECIAL
REAPER OPS TV
AT THE BEGINNING OF MAY BILL WAS INVITED TO TAKE PART IN EPISODE 2 OF “REAPER OPS TV” TO TALK ABOUT OUR
RECENT CHANGE TO DIGITAL PUBLISHING AND ALTHOUGH THE SHOW RAN TO NEARLY TWO HOURS, THERE WERE
STILL QUESTIONS UNANSWERED AND THINGS LEFT TO SAY, SO HERE HE BRINGS YOU A ROUND-UP OF THE ENTIRE
INTERVIEW!
I
’ve always shied away from “online TV” before as I’m
a firm believer that any enterprise is a sum of all those
involved and not just a single individual. That’s said, when
my old mate Jim from the airsoft and tactical shop Platoon
Stores suggested I join him, along with Dan and Alex from
local site Reaper Ops, on their new channel (Reaper Ops
Airsoft TV, or ROATV for short) to talk about the changes at
Airsoft Action, I felt that the time for me to speak up had
come!
I’ve been a customer with Pete and Jim at Platoon Stores
on and off for some considerable time and always enjoy a
visit to see them and played at the Reaper Ops site earlier
this year, coming away very impressed both by the site and
the gameplay. So, what better group to spend a Sunday
evening talking airsoft with …albeit “virtually”?
Jim had suggested possible topics for conversation
before the broadcast but as always, a plan never survives
first contact and we all ended up having way too much
fun, talking about a whole diversity of airsoft topics which I
hope that those who tuned in enjoyed. Nige and I thought
though, that you might like to hear more about what has
happened at Airsoft Action recently and how we REALLY
view things. I’ll base this article on the questions Jim gave
me prior to broadcast!
ROATV: “Aren’t Magazines Dead? “
AA: “It depends on what you class as a “magazine”.
If you mean the traditional paper publishing style of
magazine, then I would definitely say that for niche interest
areas then yes. Sadly, the circulation numbers alone will
dictate that (economically) a paper publication with a
smaller circulation is going to fall away as it will simply not
be viable. I’ll come onto exactly why later but no airsoft
publication in paper format can really ever have a global
reach.
“If by a magazine you mean a focused “product”
utilising multiple channels and formats of communication,
where a group of knowledgeable individuals join forces
to produce something that is useful, informative and
entertaining, that appears in a set format on a regular
basis and that is free and available to all, then I believe that
format is still very valid.
“As one such “product”, we now have many ways of
putting what Airsoft Action does in front of that huge
global audience and Nige and I just made a simple decision
to maximise our readership and reach by placing everything
online and making it freely accessible. Greater reach and
“…WHEN IT COMES TO AIR POLLUTION, THE PRINT INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTES BY
RELEASING VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOCS) INTO THE AIR FROM USING
SOLVENTS. IN CANADA, AS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS, THE PRINT INDUSTRY IS ONE OF
THE MAIN (STATIONARY) SOURCES OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND EMISSIONS!”
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