Escapist Radio

[jim_doki]

Ok, just as a general update, We have three announcers, that is Small Harmless Kitten, Fire Daemon and myself, We have a Ventrillo server, all we are looking for is a place to upload and host the MP3s.

The shows will last about an hour and will contain topics discussed in the forums, general video game news and current events (please feel free to message me about things you want to hear our opinions on).

I will be soon (before the first show, hopefully recorded on friday fortnight 10.10 au time) be setting up an email account for feedback and suggestions so my PM box doesn't get filled up with all your wonderful ideas.

More on it as it develops, and i'm sorry it's been so long between updates on this project. I'm glad there is still so much support for it.

One final thing, for all the people who have asked to be announcers, keep in touch, as we will almost certainly encounter things that require one or more announcers to take time off.

 

[CheshirePhoenix]

As regards internet radio stations. You are allowed (as of 2006, last time I was on the "airwaves") a shoutcast stream hosting no more than 75 total simultaneous connections before you have to start generating BMI reports and paying royalties to the RIAA for any songs played online. The royalties don't really add up to all that much, but in conjunction with the cost of a shoutcast host (it used to be 20$ for a 25 connection stereo stream, and 20$ more for a 50 person mono stream) it can add up, and there's no advertising income to defray the cost. Royalties were .0125 cents (USD) per song per listener played back then as well - assuming a 24/7 radio station with 3 minutes of sweeps per hour and 3 minute average song lengths, that would work out to roughly 6$ USD per listener per day.

I'm not entirely sure about regulations outside the US, but I'm sure the shoutcast website probably has information regarding those. I'm also fairly sure that prices have changed, since my information is a little over 4 years old.

Edit to add: if you're having issues finding a place to host podcasts, then live stream is probably the way to go. You can also abuse gmail by signing up for a gmail account and using the 7+ gb of storage there for people to log in and download it as an email attachment, or pay for a yousendit.com account and run a subscriber list. There are a number of options, really, for podcast hosting.