[BC] Question/Statement About The Cost of Streaming

[Craig Healy]

> I wasn't trying to single WMVY 92.7 out, but just use them as an
> example for the discussion of Hight costs involving internet streaming.
>
> However, if it's $500,000 to run the whole of 92.7 FM then why does
> the page say, "In fact, our streaming/internet efforts cost more than
> $500,000 "??

Because all the station operations are folded into one.  The transmitter and
FCC license costs are the only thing not really connected to the streams,
and are a minor percentage.  Were it a 50kw AM or FM, that would be
different.  But, the transmitter TPO is only 2.1kw which is not a lot of $$
per month.  Of the work I do there, almost none cannot be tied in some
fashion to the streams.  The dollar amount is hardly exact.  "...cost more
than $500,000..."

Craig Healy
Providence, RI