This is what i like to call a random “brainstorming session.” Only minutes after I posted another blog. Yay.
So basically if we were to run on FM…and Internet…we lose a lot of potential pros of Internet-only, and it’s making me re-consider. The board of directors ultimately decides what’s going to happen, but in the meantime, I’m considering….
If we were to do FM, we’d have to censor our programming. Censorship = expensive. If we were to do FM, we’d have to censor our music. Music censorship = cheap, but not fun.  It mainly boils down to the censorship issue, and that FM airwaves put a major lock-down on what we can and cannot do. A potential solution is operating on a huge delay where we can dedicate a volunteer to censor everything by hand, but that’d be expensive.
Another solution is to create Internet-only shows and FM-only shows, or shows that air on both. Internet-only shows can be uncensored, FM shows need to be censored, and hybrid shows would have to be censored. Plus, an Internet-only show and an FM-only show could broadcast at the same time. Wowzers! Or we could use the FM station as sort of a “teaser” station to try to entice people into listening online.
OR what we could do… is run shows on FM 24 hours delayed. So that way we can edit the shows afterwards and make them FM-safe. Then broadcast them? Potentially? That could get confusing with call-in shows though.
There are plenty of things that could be safely said on Internet that can’t be safely said on FM. Then again, there are also things that shouldn’t even be said on Internet radio.
FM radio is also expensive. Internet radio is fairly cheap. However, Internet radio music licensing is EXPENSIVE. As in thru-the-roof expensive. FM reaches more local people and increases the chance for sponsorships. Internet radio is global and reaches more people worldwide; at the same time decreases the chance for local sponsorships but increases the chance for nationwide corporate sponsorships. Since this isn’t a for-profit endevour though, it shouldn’t matter. Firefox says I didn’t spell endevour right but I don’t particularly care.
Seriously, though, this is a serious brain-teaser. I’ll probably talk to some people tomorrow about it and see what they think. Who knows.
And get people to sign my yearbook! 🙂
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