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Originally Posted by Neil  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. |
Yes, that's true but a lot of the launch sites carry ads rather than having them broadcast. I'm certainly not saying that there aren't internet radio stations that are 100% non-profit but we all now that the 'popular' ones are as susceptible to backhanders from management companies etc just to big up new acts as the profit making ones.