I'll be on 2600's Off the Hook radio show on Wednesday, March 29 to talk about VCF East. The station is WBAI (Long Island). You can stream it at www.wbai.org. ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation
I'll be on 2600's Off the Hook radio show on Wednesday, March 29 to talk about VCF East. The station is WBAI (Long Island). You can stream it at www.wbai.org.
Hooray! Long time listener of the show via stream! Haven't listend to it so much as of late because they're always trying to raise money for WBAI but it sounds like they're going back to having content again! Will check it out!! - Ethan
On 3/14/2017 10:04 PM, Ethan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I'll be on 2600's Off the Hook radio show on Wednesday, March 29 to talk about VCF East. The station is WBAI (Long Island). You can stream it at www.wbai.org.
Hooray! Long time listener of the show via stream! Haven't listend to it so much as of late because they're always trying to raise money for WBAI but it sounds like they're going back to having content again!
I enjoy some of the WBAI content, not the drama from the non-profit running the station. Examples: They owned a former church used as the studio. Ended up selling it to pay the property tax bill. Their board turned down help from the broadcast industry professionals, and then asked the listeners for funding to clean up the mistakes.
I enjoy some of the WBAI content, not the drama from the non-profit running the station. Examples: They owned a former church used as the studio. Ended up selling it to pay the property tax bill. Their board turned down help from the broadcast industry professionals, and then asked the listeners for funding to clean up the mistakes.
In this day and age, it's very expensive to maintain a broadcast license and keep the transmitter powered. I'd imagine the license is worth more than the income it generates from advertising (limited spectrum / value "bubble" like real estate.) The most punk rock thing to do is just move to internet streaming where it costs pennies to reach a global audience. Then you can focus on your content and not fund-raising non-stop. Or at least, 2600 could be fund raising for 2600.
That's actually a number I know: empire partners charge WBAI $54,000 a month. On Mar 15, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Ethan <telmnstr@757.org> wrote:
I enjoy some of the WBAI content, not the drama from the non-profit running the station. Examples: They owned a former church used as the studio. Ended up selling it to pay the property tax bill. Their board turned down help from the broadcast industry professionals, and then asked the listeners for funding to clean up the mistakes.
In this day and age, it's very expensive to maintain a broadcast license and keep the transmitter powered. I'd imagine the license is worth more than the income it generates from advertising (limited spectrum / value "bubble" like real estate.) The most punk rock thing to do is just move to internet streaming where it costs pennies to reach a global audience.
Then you can focus on your content and not fund-raising non-stop. Or at least, 2600 could be fund raising for 2600.
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