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How do Internet radio stations make money? — Digital Spy

Internet radio is usually done as a labour of love rather than a commercial business as it's almost impossible to sell and very difficult to market. The overheads, however are very low as all you need is a playout system and a broadband connection and it's not hard to voice track a load of links.

I would have thought it would be expensive but apparently not so? Which covers its broadcast fees.

It is just for the love of it in many cases I am currently running trial streams at wwwthewallrockradio. The first is the music.

How to make money with online radio and websites

There is not one station in the East Midlands playing AOR And other than the Beeb locals and a few CR stations there is no station on a regional basis serving the communities The idea and it maybe a big dream is an on line AOR regional community station.

In seven weeks and without any promotion The Wall has had over hits and listening figures are not too bad.

Revenue is low but the positive comments coming back are worth a fortune Hopefully full programming will go ahead in March There is so much great music out there and and many people who don't want hear songs over and over again. I think it's a big generalization to say that all internet radio stations are doing it on the cheap.

There are some very organised and popular ones with a fairly large following that try to bring a professionally sounding service. I myself am on 2 such stations ARFM and Total Biker FM and to say that we are hobbyist is not quite right. Specialist presenters is maybe more apt.

Wavestreaming / Internet Radio Cash / Internet Radio Cash

Yes we sound different from hamburger commercial local radio, we are creative, play music you don't necessarily hear anywhere else, and most of all we have total respect for our listeners and will never try to dumb them down in the way hamburger radio does. We have sponsors and advertisers and that generates just enough to cover the copyrights and server costs, but to get to that point you need to have a solid foundation and you must be able to support your claims with actual figures like website hits and stream stats.

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