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I've had a lot of success with JockeyPro...I used the LT version for a while and upgraded to the Pro version...For the price, you can't beat it...the limit to what it can do is truly as far as you can imagine.
I've got it doing things it wasn't necessarily designed to do (like lay voiceovers over intro's) but if you know how to tweak it to do that - it works wonderfully.

The voicetracker is very good too...I would have no problem putting this on a full power commercial radio station.
 
"Songs that don't test Well..." :D LOL! great liners Steve. I've been listening for several months now and still enjoying it.
 
I've been listening for several weeks(since I first saw this posting) - great oldies station, Steve! As a former oldies jock, I also enjoy listening to Oldies that don't test well in audience research(as a former co-worker once said "If I have to hear Will You Still Love Me Tommorow one more time, I think I'm gonna puke"). Love the retro commercials. Yes, this format should be syndicated. I bet if this ran on am stations, they could get devoted cult followers.

Glad you're having success with your Rangemaster in North Dallas.

I'm was disturbed to read this week about the new RIAA copyright crap - not being able to hear stations like yours on the net would be quite disappointing. Let's hope you're netcasting for many years to come.
 
Has the plug been pulled on this station? All I hear is sixty-cycle hum mixed with white noise.
 
I've read enough & took the plunge...and the 60 cycle hum was all that greeted me. If this is as good as everyone says, stream this thing in 64K or so fidelity & it could start popping up on Rangemasters all across the fruited plain.
 
Steve has told me that he feeds the internet stream from the output of Radio Shack’s version of the GE SuperRadio with a “wideband” I.F. option. The hum appears to be the Inovonics box in full release and/or R.F. recovered “off the air” from an unmodulated carrier. I can hear some co-channel chatter way down in the dumps.

Steve... Are you on vacation? PLEASE come back... :'( We love your station TOO MUCH!
 
Welcome back! Why doesn't "real" radio sound this fun anymore?
 
Sorry about that...I was on vacation...we had a storm and it must have knocked the power off momentarily...It is set to come back up on its own but didn't...oh well...we're back now...there was a hum in there I was unaware of but am fixing that.

On the RIAA rights...even IF, you have to pay ... you can choose the fee structure that is based on income. Since I have NO income on this and there are NO ads on the website, the lowest fee possible would be imposed...and although for commercial stations that DO make money and have to pay through the wazoo, for this it wouldn't be that bad. I intend to remain.

Thanks for all the listening!

If anyone has old agency dubs of old spots, let me know!!!
 
I'd love to hear this, but at 8:48PM EDT, dead air. The hum is MUCH improved though...
 
Steve Eberhart said:
On the RIAA rights...even IF, you have to pay ... you can choose the fee structure that is based on income. Since I have NO income on this and there are NO ads on the website, the lowest fee possible would be imposed...and although for commercial stations that DO make money and have to pay through the wazoo, for this it wouldn't be that bad. I intend to remain.
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Gee Steve, I really like what you are doing, but the March 2 ruling will force all Internet broadcasters to pay $0.0011 cents per listener per song. If you play 16 songs per hour and have 500 listeners, that is about $76,000 per year! The price goes up in subsequent years, and is no longer based on your station's income. If you are a 501(c)(3) or a licensed noncommercial broadcaster, you may qualify for the flat rate of $500 per year, assuming you have less than about 196,000 listener minutes per month. (I may be wrong on that listener figure).

This is bad news for many of us, but it gets worse. They now want you to report songs played in a two-week period for each quarter, retroactive to 2006. In fact, I got a letter from Sound Exchange that says they want reporting retroactive to 2004. This is despite the fact that we have actually paid them an annual fee to waive the reporting requirement.

The money will be difficult, but not impossible. The retroactive reporting will be very difficult, and an incredible burden on most Internet broadcasters. If anyone has any good ideas about how to deal with this, I'm all ears.

As I understand it, for this to become law, it must be posted in the Federal Register, and then Congress has 30 days to act upon it. To my knowledge, it hasn’t been posted yet, but it should show up very soon. My best suggestion is to start calling and emailing our elected representatives. There are links on my station's web site, www.kzqx.com for those who are interested in helping.
 
Steve Eberhart said:
I'm sure in my case the minimum would apply and for me, that's acceptable, since I really don't have any other expenses.
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I hope it is. As it is written now, the minimum only applies to noncommercial licensed stations. It may also apply to not for profit 501(c)(3)'s as well, but that isn't clear in what I've found so far. I don't think this is fair. Obviously, you are not doing this for money.

The real problem as I see it is the song reporting requirement. That is quite a burden for anyone.

So far, it looks like NAB, Clear Channel and NPR are all raising a stink over this. I'm sure that they all have their own points of view, but hopefully they will be able to apply enough pressure to get some changes made. Whether the little guy will get a good deal after they are done, remains to be seen.

The good news is that it is not law yet.
 
I think this is one of those things that snuck in and once the lobbyists have their way with it, there probably won't be any fees of ANY kind involved.
 
Steve Eberhart said:
I think this is one of those things that snuck in and once the lobbyists have their way with it, there probably won't be any fees of ANY kind involved.
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I hope you are right. And if I haven't mentioned it recently, you have one of the best Internet radio stations ANYWHERE. (And I run a a small market radio station that also streams.)
 
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