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Originally Posted by Alkaline  I was saying "if you were including them" not "you're a dick, stop including podcasts" don't get your panties in a twist. |
Steady on! I'm not having a go and I'm sorry if it came across that way. Chill out.
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I'd be surprised if half the streaming internet radio stations didn't take money from sponsors, advertisers, subsidisers and artists/agents/management/record companies. How many of those stations are self-supporting and run 'only for the music'.
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Well, I have some knowledge of this through listening to many different online radio stations over the years and having a go of running a radio station of sorts here in the past, on aberdeen-music.
If you listen to many of these radio stations you will soon discover they are completely ad-free and often rely solely on people making donations to them through an associated web site in order to keep going. Considering they are often paying for server(s) as well as bandwidth in order to broadcast then their on-going costs can easily run into the hundreds and thousands of pounds a month for the really popular radio stations. That's a lot of money if you are relying completely on donations from listeners and revenue coming from a few ads on your web site.