I in no way was inferring to not have a real radio station. I meant in conjuction with a real boots on the ground RPR station.
Yeah I just emphasize the real radio station because, unlike jungletrain.net that plays only DnB, RonPaulradio was the first to break news, and occasionally reached 800-1000+ listeners online. I think it would be a lot easier to have a central command space for the best possible outcome for this idea.
An army of
unauthorized RPR micro-broadcoasters could very well change this nation. And being unauthorized and rogue removes any liability from the REAL RPR station where ever it happens to be.
If the Ron Paul folks make RPR happen, I'll do my best to make pirate RPR happen.(
without your consent of course
)
TMike
Haha yeah, well I think if someone sets up a website where people can donate money for micro-broadcasters, that is totally unaffiliated with our website, I guess there would be nothing anybody could do? It would be someone elses responsibility I guess. I don't think we could avoid responsibility if we used the money for this project to buy transmitters.
But I *do* think that maybe it would be a better idea to get a cheaper radio station, like one in Mississippi, and maybe we could find ways to help increase our coverage, through the internet or something.
I also think maybe it would be cool if we could have live video streaming from people with their Iphone, especially from big events. I think we could have different options online, but for the radio, there would be 1 primary broadcast.
Good idea IMO, but as you put it, a lot of work and nontrivial financing if this is to be done in a way that will lead it to being taken seriously.
Where would financing come from? If you have the $$, getting people on board should not be that difficult, particularly if they are being paid. It would seem to be difficult at best to run such an operation mostly on volunteers.
Do you have a plan? How would it sustain itself? Would there be advertising?
I would think with such high unemployment, and hopefully somewhat of a high demand of liberty activists willing to help out, we could minimize the costs of hiring high-priced staff. We can raise 75k to buy a radio station, but we'll still need to pay monthly electricity bills, and other additional costs, so it would be a good idea to raise more. My hope is that, if the grassroots can fly a $600,000 blimp, that we could start maybe $100,000 radio station. I think the benefits are greater. $100k is I think almost as much as someone once paid for 1 advertisement in a newspaper.
Not a fan of donating to a for profit radio station in Iowa.
Put it online, regularly post the good stuff as a podcast available on iTunes. Have the radio stations website able to do video also.
Instead of paying reporters to go to events, let people who are already there do the reporting, perhaps with a host directing call ins.
Leave open slots for average people to get an hour, take applications/auditions, provide info on how an average joe can broadcast, technically speaking. Invite the good ones to come back at better hours.
Love the simulcast idea, I'm sure no one would want to say no, don't know if company contracts/ advertiser issues would arise, that's OP's problem.
If, IF it can be financially supported, expand to AM.
I think having streaming video would be better on a 3rd party website. But I also think it would be great to have multiple video streams available on 1 webpage. I am not much of a web developer, however.
If Peter Schiff is still doing his show, he has a 2 hour slot available on our radio. At least that's what
I would say. I, like many other people, love the Peter Schiff show.
I'm sure we would get a lot of people to apply for a show, and we could also get a list of current shows we like, and see if we can make a schedule with them. I don't listen to talk radio too much, but I would definitely start with the Peter Schiff show.
Having a studio makes running a radio station, internet or not, likely, much easier. Trying to run RonPaulradio out of my bedroom for 2012 doesn't sound like the best idea. In fact, I'm not sure it would even work. It would definitely be a lot harder to run the radio station from my house. I could set up a studio, but I'm still a little short of equipment. It would help a lot if I could get $$$ for a mic and a few other things. I could itemize a list.
The point is, I think if we can raise $600,000 for a blimp, I'm sure we could raise $200,000 for a radio station for a year. If we choose not to do a radio station, what
are we going to do? Spend 400k running a TV ad? Spending 100k on a newspaper ad? There are multiple, in-depth, comprehensive benefits to having a radio station, and compared to the cost of many other advertising or grassroots ideas, I think the cost/benefit of a radio station is extremely high.
Last time I talked about getting a radio station, it was early in the campaign, and not enough people were really interested in super-big grassroots projects. Like Melissa said, it is deja vu. Here we are in the critical planning stages for 2012. If we don't do a radio station, what idea would be better?
resurrection of Ron Paul radio?
