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Thread #54589   Message #846872
Posted By: M.Ted
13-Dec-02 - 03:34 PM
Thread Name: I want to start an oldtime radio station
Subject: RE: I want to start an oldtime radio station
Sorry for mis-remembering your call letters, Ron, and thanks for jumping into this discussion--

Wilco48, I just remembered another possibility, and that is to purchase regular airtime from a station and fill it with your own programming--many of the religious and ethnic programs that you hear, particularly on AM, do this, and there are a fair number of stations who work this way--it isn't really vanity radio, you can sell your own advertising and even make a living this way(in fact, years ago, sponsors would buy the airtime and create their own programs)--Barry Reisman, in the Delaware Valley, has done this for many, many years, though he programs all kinds of Jewish music, including Israeli bluegrass--