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A Mom & Pop Internet Radio Success Story

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Interesting story in last Sunday's edition of The Los Angeles Times. It's still possible to operate a successful mom & pop radio station:


A 'Paradise' for radio lovers - Bill Goldsmith's internet station "Radio Paradise" plays only what he likes, and folks like what he plays.

Bill Goldsmith says, "enough people enjoy the station that we can make a living."

Currently, that audience stands at around 10,000 registered users and 20,000 to 30,000 additional unregistered listeners in a given week, with between 12,000 and 15,000 listening at once during peak times...

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...24,0,2118158.story?coll=la-home-entertainment
 
I'd like to know how a "mom & pop" operation can get their bandwidth subsidized by AOL? I bet you many more "success stories" could be out there if they were any to have a good chunk of their bandwidth given to them. That's got to be the biggest expense next to paying royalties.
 
Nice article but just a Primer for RP. I have logged more hours listening to them since 2002 than any other Internet station. They are the Rolls Royce of Internet radio IMO. They just played an old nugget from Otis Redding ("Hard to Handle"), some Bob Marley, Beatles "Come Together" and np Loreena McKennett.
 
Hi everyone:
Bill DeFelice said:
I'd like to know how a "mom & pop" operation can get their bandwidth subsidized by AOL? I bet you many more "success stories" could be out there if they were any to have a good chunk of their bandwidth given to them. That's got to be the biggest expense next to paying royalties.
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I didn't see a mention of AOL in the article. Where did you see that?

Besides, even if they did have AOL, they'd still have to pay a seperate company for Internet service since, contrary to popular belief, AOL doesn't provide broadband bandwidth anyway.

That said, I still don't see where you saw a reference to AOL in the article.

Am I missing something or is it just me?

Cheers :D
 
There was an entire article on stations that had bandwidth "sponsored" by AOL and RP was one of the ones mentioned. Hey, more power to them for getting free bandwidth, but it's hard to call them a success story when you get something that amounts to thousands of dollars a month given to you.
 
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