By Brianna Bailey
Copyright © 2013, The Oklahoma Publishing Company
Oklahoma City-based startup Buzzam started with a daydream that 30-year-old software developer Josh Wright had of being able to have a TV channel that only played movies from his personal collection of DVDs.
“The technology didn’t really exist to do that, so we thought of radio,” Wright said.
Together with business partner Greg Starling, 33, Wright launched Buzzam late last year. The iPhone and iPad app allows users to combine music, weather, news and social media to create a personalized radio station that is unique to each listener.
Starling is Wright’s boss at the local trophy and sculpture maker MTM Recognition. The two have worked together for six years and hope to make Buzzam into the preferred way for users to listen to music and get information.
The Buzzam app is based on a concept that Wright calls “exactcasting,” as opposed to broa