Here's the story on their website WJZF 97.1 in Standish Maine.http://www.wjzf.org/site/content/view/17/6/
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Another LPFM with money woes
- Thread starter Andy Taylor
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Let's face it--automated elevator music isn't really going to be a cash cow.
I've listened--but the automation is a bit painful. I don't have any answers really (not when I'm already late for a meeting, but can't resist posting) except that I really believe in community radio--but believe a lot of LPFM groups approach it wrong. Will I elaborate? Another time, perhaps.
I've listened--but the automation is a bit painful. I don't have any answers really (not when I'm already late for a meeting, but can't resist posting) except that I really believe in community radio--but believe a lot of LPFM groups approach it wrong. Will I elaborate? Another time, perhaps.
If I can offer an opinon...
I think the majority of LPFM groups went in with great intentions, but not much else. Few had much in the way of broadcast experience. And I think many really believed the fairy tale that the public was so starved for a local voice on the airwaves, they would rally around them and throw money. It's a rude awakening.
The successful LPFM's are the ones that knew going in who they were going to serve and how they were going to pay for it. They also knew that dropping big $$$ on fancy equipment, offices, and studios was the express lane to bankruptcy.
The ideal that many community radio groups push is the radio version of community access cable television. Of course that only works when you have the local cable franchise subsidizing you. The mixed bag, "many voices under one tent" approach is very romantic but almost never succeeds in genertaing any appreciable audience.
PTR
I think the majority of LPFM groups went in with great intentions, but not much else. Few had much in the way of broadcast experience. And I think many really believed the fairy tale that the public was so starved for a local voice on the airwaves, they would rally around them and throw money. It's a rude awakening.
The successful LPFM's are the ones that knew going in who they were going to serve and how they were going to pay for it. They also knew that dropping big $$$ on fancy equipment, offices, and studios was the express lane to bankruptcy.
The ideal that many community radio groups push is the radio version of community access cable television. Of course that only works when you have the local cable franchise subsidizing you. The mixed bag, "many voices under one tent" approach is very romantic but almost never succeeds in genertaing any appreciable audience.
PTR
The fundamental problem with LPFM is that the internet has almost entirely supplanted its mission. My hope is that most of these stations will go dark and remove their interference from the crowded FM band, but my fear is that Christian stations will make these cash-strapped community groups an offer they can't refuse.
Community radio can and does succeed-look at WMPG in Portland. But for it to work, automation should be the backup, not the majority of programming. In my humble opinion, the future of radio is in news/talk/information. Otherwise, why not just pick up a CD, MP3 player or satellite radio.
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argytunes
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For radio this:
One word to add to your post: AMEN!
argytunes
One word to add to your post: AMEN!
argytunes
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radiotony
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The Portsmouth station has an amazing amount of programming on it. I don't know how they do for money.
Anthony Schinella said:The Portsmouth station has an amazing amount of programming on it. I don't know how they do for money.
I believe they're doing okay. The programming at WSCA 106.1 is really quite good... I was driving through Portsmouth this past March on a Sunday morning, and they were live and local with an blues singer in studio.
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