Alright fella
Re your figures for listening, spot on re connecvtion speeds if you're broadcasting from home as I was for a while. I'm now based at streamsolutions.com, check them out for prices etc, they also do video feeds. Prices really competitive, and they are unbelievably helpful, almost like at the best acid house do's, yet very professional too. Get responses either via e-mail. msn or their forums on average within less than an hour, quite often within five minutes, and not just "normal work hours either.
You will get some background warbling at 24kpbs(mono), think BBBlood's set had a bit of that this week, but I'm sure he's using Sound Forge, and it seem to vary a bit week to week too which must be their end I presume. I tried to get my filters used at theirs but not possible tecjnically without putting other users at risk.
There's two reasons why I do 24kpbs, obviously price, but also it's the only bit-rate that dial-ups can access, and a lot of the Sunday crew are on dial-ups, big up the Robyn in Hicksville, Pennsylvania
Hopefully by next christmas I can have two streams simul, one at 24, and one at either 98 or 128 or thereabouts. But that starts to get pricey if you loop from them too, just because of the web space required for higher bit-rate etc. Prices are worked on number listeners allowed, level of bitrate, and if you want to be 24/7 pre-recorded, what web space required,.
Those are the primary price factors there.
Check em man, they're well alright.
Oh by the way, who do I send the invoice to?
I think the sound is quite often better when I'm live, I found this wicked fx effect that runs alongside Shoutcast that is quality, it also throws in a well good cross-fader.
Program listing for looped shows can always be found at
hamzen1.proboards27.com/index.cgi?board=dazenand it always has a tracklisting with
And yeah, I have been running a loop since the 15th, being more like a free festival has it's bonuses when you're busy.
Re the big stations with thousands of listeners, two ways really, like most pirate stations, advertising is the main revenue, and dj subscriptions is another. The third one, and don't under-rate the brand loyalty of listeners, donations, usually via paypal from the listeners.
And then the obvious merchandising route. T'shirts, small pressings of the best producers in a forum for the station etc etc with their own tracks donated, have noticed graphic artists starting to sell high quality prints creeping in too.
I'm on at about 19.00 gmt tomorrow live, and get that sub up, thankfully the bottom end seems to get less distortion than the top end at 24
Kerde's link to 4amzen very kindly puts global times up alongside his link
Gotta wait til next months bandwidth