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I own a licensed FM radio station in the U.S. The only way I see to make it work is as a one-person operation, as there's no way to afford a staff.

I wrote a lot of scripts to make it happen.

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Sound interesting, do you have a blog or something to learn more? I've always been interested in something like this.

I’ve been thinking about documenting the journey online, likely in the form of a blog. I know I would have been interested in reading about someone who took this step before I did. So, the answer right now is "no," but hopefully, when I get a chance, that will change.

Hi RF_Enthusiast. Myself and a few friends are doing the same thing as a result of the most recent non-commercial filing window. Would love to connect with you in some way if you're open to it, would love to compare notes and see what kind of scripting you've set up (we also use lots of scripts and write lots of code). Our call letters are KRDF if you'd like to reach out.

Care to share how you get advertisers and how you track how many listeners you have?

I wonder how this compares to to the way online media works

I’m early into the ownership journey, but in my situation, the station serves a tourist resort area, so the station is trying to capture listeners coming in on the highways into town. The advertiser base I’m developing is primarily made up of tourist-based businesses.

My market is too small to be measured by Nielsen’s media ratings, so there’s no great way to measure it at the moment.

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