Re: LPFM - Tech Question

[Dib9@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/21/00 5:02:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
djbroda@mindspring.com writes:

<< That would be a different financial model, wouldn't it, than that 
applicable to a typical commercial operator? >>

Maybe, but someone has to pay the bills.  There is a reason that most 
not-for-profit stations are associated with some organization that helps pay 
the bills.  (A college, church, or they receive a government subsidy.)  WERU 
in Maine is one of the few stations that I can think of that is not 
associated with an organization that helps keep the station a float.

Also, many of the people who put stations on in rural areas were not looking 
to get rich.  They simply needed enough advertising support to pay the bills 
and staff the station.  In many cases, the money just isn't there.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine