Found it interesting crowdfunding pays for first 6 months of broadcasting on dab, they needed 10k
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/yorkmix-radio
crowdfunding a radio station
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Re: crowdfunding a radio station
Not a new idea (very common in the USA) even in the UK there have been numerous crowdfunding drives for Radio Caroline and some of the religious stations (to say nothing of the Beeb's model of semi-mandatory crowdfunding).
Not sure I agree with them laying the blame at the door of Covid 19 for the lack of local programming in their area. Surely that's down to media ownership consolidation and the role of OFCOM in facilitating same ?
Not sure I agree with them laying the blame at the door of Covid 19 for the lack of local programming in their area. Surely that's down to media ownership consolidation and the role of OFCOM in facilitating same ?
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Re: crowdfunding a radio station
Maybe they might of been playing the fiddle using the covid excuse, they lost their jobs at minster fm, they needed to be some were else. I don’t know why you’d need a radio station more when a virus came along, i’ve read it in other places people started up when covid came along, for me it was the opposite when covid came along.
Its quite interesting you’ve got yorkmix, yo1, coast and country on the north yorkshire mux, usually you would have bauer stations they would have to be on small scale ones, I suppose north yorkshire is a sparsely populated area, lower rates perhaps lower interest to bauer global. I’ve heard there may even be some area’s were greatest hits isn’t heard on fm, is quite a surprising result.
They do make of point of there been no new fm licences been given out, perhaps business sense not to go on fm, only profitable for big companies to be on fm, baron greenback. I’ve read some were community radio licences will still be renewed in afew years time, hopefully these stations will on dab or online, been active through them it would be certain death other wise. It dose often confuse me why it cost so much money to be on fm, all local independent ILR’s closed, they weren’t viable, was it to the fault of the regulator.
Its quite interesting you’ve got yorkmix, yo1, coast and country on the north yorkshire mux, usually you would have bauer stations they would have to be on small scale ones, I suppose north yorkshire is a sparsely populated area, lower rates perhaps lower interest to bauer global. I’ve heard there may even be some area’s were greatest hits isn’t heard on fm, is quite a surprising result.
They do make of point of there been no new fm licences been given out, perhaps business sense not to go on fm, only profitable for big companies to be on fm, baron greenback. I’ve read some were community radio licences will still be renewed in afew years time, hopefully these stations will on dab or online, been active through them it would be certain death other wise. It dose often confuse me why it cost so much money to be on fm, all local independent ILR’s closed, they weren’t viable, was it to the fault of the regulator.