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WTPT - Pokémon Radio KTPT - Pokémon Radio The Pallet Tribune
"Stay out of the Tall Grass!"
WTPT's last podcast art, with a banner that has the name of its site and an illustration of Ho-Oh on it. A dark blue radio tower is transmitting signals in the background.
Language		English
Status	Podcast	Defunct (WTPT) On hiatus (KTPT)
	Website	Active
Run	Podcast	July 2007 - October 2010 (WTPT) October 2011 - Present (KTPT)
	Website	July 2007 - Present
Podcast debuted		July 3, 2007 (WTPT) October 18, 2011 (KTPT)
Last episode published		October 31, 2010 (WTPT's "penultimate" episode.)
Website opened		July 3, 2007 (as The Pokémon Times) November 2008 (as The Pallet Tribune)
Website closed		{{{site_close}}}
Reason		See below for one of the reasons.
Creator(s)		Joseph Romano and Keith C. Smith, a.k.a. "Jowy" and "KC" (WTPT) "Ducky-von-Karma" and "Bubman" (KTPT)
Host(s)		Jane Doe
Number of Episodes		77 (WTPT) 3 (KTPT as of December 7, 2011)
Forum		The Pallet Tribune Forums
Mascot		Ho-Oh (WTPT and website) Lugia (KTPT)
Website		The Pallet Tribune website
Feed		KTPT - Pokémon Radio RSS feed

This article is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this article to add missing information and complete it. Reason: Needs podcast and site history, going as far back as their early days. "Podcast" section also needs more information.

WTPT - Pokémon Radio was a Pokémon-focused podcast hosted by long-time Pokémon fans from Brooklyn, New York, Joseph "Jowy" Romano and Keith C. "KC" Smith. It originally debuted on July 3, 2007 and it is available on iTunes, Zune, and other podcast directories. It was usually released once a week. 'W' is the first letter used in the call letters for United States radio stations east of the Mississippi River and "TPT" are the letters that stand for the website that hosts the podcast, The Pallet Tribune, which was originally called The Pokémon Times. The site features include news, fan art, blogs, and a chat room.

On their Halloween Special 2010 episode, the podcast announced that it was going to end by saying that the Halloween Special was the penultimate episode and that full details on why they're ending it will come in their final episode. This news came after KC announced that he was going to leave the show for job-related issues (which were further described in the Halloween Special) near the end of the podcast episode that focused on banned anime episodes, and after releasing a 4.0 version of their site back in August and having released only four episodes in the year 2010 prior to their blog entry about TPT 4.0. They have yet to release their official final episode as of November 1, 2011, at least one year since their last episode.

Recently however, a new "sister podcast" created by two of The Pallet Tribune's community members has taken WTPT's place on the website. KTPT - Pokémon Radio made its debut on October 18, 2011, with Jowy popping in at the beginning with an update on what had happened since WTPT's last episode.

Podcasts

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Main podcast (WTPT)

WTPT - Pokémon Radio was the podcast of The Pallet Tribune website. It used to be updated approximately every two weeks. One of the reasons why it ended was that KC's employer, who found out about him being in WTPT, told him to stop participating in the podcast as it was considered a breach in his contract.^[1] It was the most popular Pokémon podcast during its three-year run, having taken the top Pokémon podcast spot from Bulbagarden's own Bulbacast, which stopped producing new episodes the same year that WTPT debuted and later made a failed revival attempt in 2009. (Bulbacast resumed weekly episode production again in 2011.) After WTPT ended in 2010, another podcast that debuted the same year, PKMNcast.com's It's Super Effective, has since taken the top Pokémon podcast spot on both iTunes and Zune.

Hosts

KC and Jowy have appeared on other video game podcasts including MyGamer.com's Radcast Audio Blast and Gamestation Radio. Both hosts have journalism backgrounds: KC has a degree in journalism and Jowy was the executive editor of his college newspaper.

Podcast art

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  The first ever WTPT podcast art, which lasted until circa September 2007.

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  The WTPT podcast art from September 2007 to November 2008

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  The WTPT podcast art from November 2008 to July 2009

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  The last WTPT podcast art, which is little different from the "TPT 2.0" art

Episode list

No.	Subject/Title	Publish date	Artwork
1	Pokémon Battle Revolution	July 3, 2007
2	Training a Party for Battle	July 11, 2007
3	Pokémon: The First Movie	July 19, 2007
4	Super Smash Bros. Brawl Pokémon Preview	July 24, 2007
5	Battle Etiquette	August 3, 2007
6	Retrospective: The Beginning of the Pokécraze in America	August 9, 2007
7	Pokémon Jobs	August 15, 2007
8	Pokémon Move Combos	August 23, 2007
9	Pokémon TCG	August 30, 2007
10	Pokémon the Movie 2000	September 6, 2007
11	The Electric Tale of Pikachu	September 15, 2007
12	GTS Website	September 21, 2007
13	Trading Figure Game	September 28, 2007
14	Advanced EV Training	October 5, 2007
15	The Mailbag Episode	October 15, 2007
16	Pokémon Ranger	October 18, 2007
17	Pokémon Chronicles	October 26, 2007
18	Halloween Special 2007	October 31, 2007
19	Finding Fellow Trainers	November 15, 2007
20	Event Pokémon	November 22, 2007
21	Pokémon Websites	November 29, 2007
22	Winter Extravaganza	December 14, 2007
23	Pokémon Christmas Bash	December 30, 2007
24	Pokémon 3: Spell of the Unown	January 11, 2008
25	Pokémon Mythology	January 21, 2008
26	Adult Pokémon Trainers	February 13, 2008
27	Thousands of Mile Apart Edition	February 21, 2008
28	Misconception About Pokémon	March 11, 2008
29	The Myth Contest Episode	March 19, 2008
30	Super Smash Bros. Brawl	March 31, 2008
31	WTDP - Digimon World Dawn and Dusk	April 1, 2007
32	Hacking	April 4, 2008
33	The Catch-up Show	May 14, 2008
34	Pokémon Fanfics	June 2, 2008
35	My Pokémon Ranch	June 16, 2008
36	First Anniversary Special	July 3, 2008
37	Pokémon Special Manga: Yellow	July 16, 2008
38	Female Trainers	July 30, 2008
39	Mewtwo Returns	August 16, 2008
40	Pokémon Snap	August 23, 2008
41	PAX 2008	September 6, 2008

Second podcast (KTPT)

KTPT - Pokémon Radio

KTPT - Pokémon Radio is the new podcast of The Pallet Tribune, hosted by two of the website's community members, known as "Ducky-von-Karma" and "Bubman". The new podcast, a sister podcast to WTPT, debuted on October 18, 2011. Similar to WTPT's name, 'K' is the first letter for American radio stations west of the Mississippi River. The new podcast initially used WTPT's podcast feed, but it separated into its own feed by the third episode.

Website

The Pallet Tribune is the homepage of WTPT and KTPT. On the right there is a navigation menu that leads to the site's forums, oekaki, chat rooms, competitions, store, donation button, Twitter feed, and an RSS feed of the latest videos. At the top are links to the site's login and about pages, the Pallet Tribune's Twitter account, and the site's RSS news feed, as well as a search bar to search within the website.

Current content and features

Chatting

On "TPT", there are three forms of chatting. The first one is called "Chat Rooms", running on the Ajax Open Source Web Chat. Here fans can type to other people live and send them messages, smilies (themed as different Pokémon), and surprises. Here is where many people make new friends to talk to, battle, and become friends with. The second form of chatting is the "WTPT Live", where fans can talk to people live using microphones and cameras. Through this, they can actually see and hear who they are talking to. The third and final form of chatting is the TPT forums.

Forums

The Pallet Tribune added a vBulletin forums system when the site was upgraded to TPT 2.0. Here, members can make an post on threads about various topics about things relating to the forums, Pokémon, and pretty much anything else.

Former content and features

News

The news was updated periodically and kept listeners updated in the world of Pokémon. They dealt with topics relating to Pokémon, including contest results, special events, and inside info.

Livre do Mestre and KC's Log

Livre do Mestre and KC's Log were Jowy and KC's respective, Pokémon-related, personal blogs.

The Tall Grass

Run by moderator BigRedLax, this webcomic featured Pokémon humor. The name derives from KC's closing catchphrase at the end of every podcast: "Stay out of the Tall Grass!"

Ask Annie

Ask Annie was a question-based feature article run by Annie. Users would send usually non-serious questions to her, and she picked her favorites and answered them.

TCG Top Ten

This was a recurring article made by WaterRangerLara about the Pokémon Trading Card Game. It went in-depth about the top ten cards from certain sets, such as Base Set, Fossil, or the "Neo" sets.

• The first article, talked about the top ten trainer cards from sets 1-3.
• The second article, talked about the top ten cards from the Neo sets.

Countdown to Platinum

Countdown to Platinum was a set of three articles made by Ducky-von-Karma in the weeks before Pokémon Platinum came out, detailing known information in a humorous way.

• Article One, Wi-Fi, detailed new features of online play.
• Article Two, Wi-Fi Plaza, overviewed the Wi-fi Plaza and its features.
• Article Three, Characters and Setting, discussed the changes on character design and changes within Sinnoh from Diamond and Pearl to Platinum.

Competitions

The Pallet Tribune has a variety of competitions. Its most major one, called the WTPTC, is usually held quarterly. Occasionally, additional tournaments are also hosted, such as one on "TPT Day", the anniversary of WTPT's creation. Another form of competitions on The Pallet Tribune is ladders. In these ladders members can battle one another to get points, and everyone is ranked against each other by points, the top person receiving a digital medal. There are currently five ladders on The Pallet Tribune:

The Ally Cup

This is a ladder for 4-on-4 double battles in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum.

The Brawl Cup

This is a ladder for fights in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

The Sippy Cup

This is a ladder for level 1, unevolved baby Pokémon battles.

The Unown Cup

This is a ladder for the level 100 Under-Used side of Pokémon battling.

The Ho-Oh Cup

This is a standard Over-Used level 100 ladder.

Staff

Joesph "Jowy" Romano

Main host of WTPT and an administrator on the forums.

Keith C. "KC" Smith

Co-host of WTPT and an administrator on the forums.

Justin V.

Creator of the current version of WTPT and manager of the forums and main website. Also an administrator on the forums.

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