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So, how long does it take to add bandwidth?

I'm not sure what adding bandwidth takes, but I've been told it's not the easiest thing to do. When I worked for a fairly large cluster that streamed all of its stations a few years ago, I was told bandwidth was, hands down, the most expensive part of streaming. It's probably a little cheaper in Dallas, where there are more providers. The cluster I was at had one choice, and they charged what they wanted. The cluster I'm at now trades out its bandwidth, which may be an option as well.

Also, keep in mind that they said their server crashed. If it's their first priority, getting the server up and running should be pretty easy, but I'm sure it's nowhere near first priority. A few years ago, WALR-FM in Atlanta's encoder broke, and it took them close to 2 months to get back up and running. Streaming just isn't that high of a priority at most stations.

If you want online smooth jazz, don't forget that Houston's KHJZ.com is still streaming. It's an excellent smooth jazz source in its own right and is semi-local.
 
It aint that hard....if they use an external source to stream (360, etc) they only need a 20-40kHz stream to get their audio to the provider who then provides the actual internal connections....did that with CC and other groups...and it took only 30 mins to set up once the software was installed.....IN the CC case, it used the T1 out of the cluster....in other cases, I used a DSL that was available....the 384kb on the uplink side was MORE than plenty to handle it...the downlink was used primarily to feed video to a Clearcast video server.....the office used a T1 for normal WAN/Internet....

NOW to inject the correct commercials, etc, that is a bit longer....but if they have someone else handle the online streaming, its a piece of cake to get the source audio to them!
 
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