Comments for your LPFM http://yourlpfm.com Making the most out of Community Based Radio Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Comment on A One-Person Car Factory by Walter Pearce http://yourlpfm.com/archives/175/comment-page-1#comment-99 Walter Pearce Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:26:42 +0000 http://yourlpfm.com/?p=175#comment-99 Hi Vervon, I've been reading a few of your articles on LPFM and like what you've written. I listen to a bit of 'Community Radio' here in Australia and have considered volunteering in the technical side of station operations. The quality of programming on these stations ranges between excellent and abysmal and would benefit from reading your articles. I am a member of the CSC discussion list and found myself on your website through a link in a message you posted to CSC a few weeks ago. Walter Hi Vervon,

I’ve been reading a few of your articles on LPFM and like what you’ve written. I listen to a bit of ‘Community Radio’ here in Australia and have considered volunteering in the technical side of station operations.

The quality of programming on these stations ranges between excellent and abysmal and would benefit from reading your articles.

I am a member of the CSC discussion list and found myself on your website through a link in a message you posted to CSC a few weeks ago.

Walter

]]> Comment on What Kind of Music Will You Play? by vKuehn http://yourlpfm.com/archives/111/comment-page-1#comment-33 vKuehn Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:09:56 +0000 http://yourlpfm.com/?p=111#comment-33 Carl: Thanks for posting your comment. The holidays have been a busy time, and I decided to wait and see if anyone else wanted to respond to your comment. No, I don't intend to suggest that thinking about programming content does not happen before radiation begins. My vision is that all this planning is a "circular" process. You think about your justification or purpose for establishing an LPFM. Then you think about what programming would accomplish that purpose. Then you think about the facilities, both building and equipment that it will take to support that programming. By then the cold, hard reality of dollars-and-cents begins to impact your thinking so you go back a re-think and may change the scale of your justification and purpose. That done, guess what: you may need to rescale your programming plans which leads to rescaling your facilities plan. And this is not a process you do once and it is forever complete. Once your station is operational you will continually come and revisit all these issues, and revisit your analysis of your community. Over time your community, your tribe, will change and then the LPFM operation has to re-evaluate: Does our present set-up meet the needs, or do we change our justification and purpose. And you can see where that can lead. Carl: Thanks for posting your comment. The holidays have been a busy time, and I decided to wait and see if anyone else wanted to respond to your comment.

No, I don’t intend to suggest that thinking about programming content does not happen before radiation begins. My vision is that all this planning is a “circular” process. You think about your justification or purpose for establishing an LPFM. Then you think about what programming would accomplish that purpose. Then you think about the facilities, both building and equipment that it will take to support that programming. By then the cold, hard reality of dollars-and-cents begins to impact your thinking so you go back a re-think and may change the scale of your justification and purpose. That done, guess what: you may need to rescale your programming plans which leads to rescaling your facilities plan.

And this is not a process you do once and it is forever complete. Once your station is operational you will continually come and revisit all these issues, and revisit your analysis of your community. Over time your community, your tribe, will change and then the LPFM operation has to re-evaluate: Does our present set-up meet the needs, or do we change our justification and purpose. And you can see where that can lead.

]]> Comment on What Kind of Music Will You Play? by Carl http://yourlpfm.com/archives/111/comment-page-1#comment-15 Carl Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:25:17 +0000 http://yourlpfm.com/?p=111#comment-15 If you're in the radio business, sure - there's a lot of other questions to ask before "What kind of music will you play?" Unless you're just an average person who listens to the radio and doesn't even know about program directors. In the listener's mind, there's just the DJ (automated or not) seemingly picking the songs. After you have a programming justification for your LPFM to exist, take care of all the licensing, have the equipment radiating, then my question would be similar, "Who's the one who decides what kind of music (or other content) your station will play?" I take it your point is that those interested in having an LPFM should consider their justification first, then programming content once the radiation begins. If you’re in the radio business, sure – there’s a lot of other questions to ask before “What kind of music will you play?”

Unless you’re just an average person who listens to the radio and doesn’t even know about program directors. In the listener’s mind, there’s just the DJ (automated or not) seemingly picking the songs.

After you have a programming justification for your LPFM to exist, take care of all the licensing, have the equipment radiating, then my question would be similar, “Who’s the one who decides what kind of music (or other content) your station will play?”

I take it your point is that those interested in having an LPFM should consider their justification first, then programming content once the radiation begins.

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