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How Would You Start a Radio Station?
MurderINC asks: "For the past few months, I have been looking into starting up a radio station here. I am a student in a college town. The university here has around 10,000 students, but in my opinion, not a single decent radio station. There are a couple of country stations, a couple of 'today's hit music' stations geared towards the junior high audience and a few talk stations, but that's about it. I would LOVE to start a classic rock / alternative / hard rock station. I'm thinking this could probably be run right off of my Mandrake box (just load up a playlist and go with it). The problem consists of: I know very little about the FCC's regulations, the costs of the equipment, and what equipment I would need, and was hoping someone out there knew a lil' somethin somethin, or has done the same thing."
Just head on down to your local book store, and grab a copy of "Starting Your own Classic Rock Station for Dummies"
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don't.
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This has to be the stupidest Ask Slashdot ever! Damn!
Here's my Ask Slashdot:
I want to, like, start a club or something, since all of the clubs around here, like, have bouncers, and like a cover charge, plus they advertise, and they close at 2AM, instead of serving liqour all night. I want to pose a question to all of you dumb fuckers jerking off in your basements: How would you go about starting a club?
You're talking about running a real radio station, right? Not just an internet radio station.
Sounds like it. Real world. That means you have to actually talk to real people, and raise real money, and do real work. And yes, you even have to deal with the government. Yeah, Slashdot was definately the wrong place to post a question about that.
Unless you've got a whole lot of money to invest in all the equipment, fees and royalties, don't even think about it.
Actually, it should be enough to make a couple friends who will sponsor your non-profit station... As in, people you see, not people you chat on AIM with... Again, probably the wrong forum to ask such questions.
And what does your "mandrake box" have to do with this?
Probably just a ploy to trick the Slashdot editors into accepting the story.
and the tower that the radio is on is awefully short
Man! Imagine, a tower so short it inspires awe...
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<fires up Gnucleus>
already on it, boss!
Anyone who says "a lil' somethin somethin" should not be starting a radio station.
Steve