Looking For Audience In All the Wrong Places

There are now 2 persons who have listened for more than 10 minutes.

Druid Hills Radio News Department Reports:  "There are now 2 persons who have listened for more than 10 minutes."

Clairvoyant Newscaster Carl retrospectively reports:  I saw this day coming.

May in fact be Carnac the Magnificent!

I've listened to Artisan when he was doing the programming he used to for long times and quite often leaving the computer on and the same with Part15engineer with his current programming.

But here's the thing. I've posted his opinon before. Not to many people use the computer as a radio, whether a home computer or a smartphone or a internet radio. More people in general watch TV rather than listen to radio. Even though I now listen to Part15engineer all the time when I turn on the computer and it can play while I'm on I still have my own station to listen to other times on a regular radio which is portable also.

I always like to see what my fellow hobbyists are doing and I always check it out when someone is streaming.

Plus, maybe this is not the best place to advertise a station other than us few knowing.

If you are streaming is there a way of getting the word out there that you exist to millions of people? Lke on line advertising?

There are forums....well, sites....that list thousands of stations and genras and listening addresses already but one just gets lost in the crowd.

Mark

If you stream via Shoutcast or Icecast you can list yourself in their directory (yellow pages).

The basic problem is that there are hundreds of thousands of streams on the Internet, and how do potential listeners find you, never mind listen.

Everything you've said is true... I'm talking to everybody...

I'm on the Shoutcast and Icecast Directories but like you say, there are so many stations no one on earth would have time to check them all out.

Even driving around town, most of the drive and most of the town are out of range of the transmitter.

And we are flawed individuals.... we can only do one thing at a time.

Ya, you can have the radio on while watching TV, but you miss both of them if you talk on the phone.

Right now my station is on but I'm busy typing this message and if I listen to the radio my fingers go all over the keyboard like djtueryr mfhysuif mhyadsvbnh.

Youy can quote me!

Right now I am listening to "Free Talk Live" on KDX while abandoning WLSL-LP. I hope I don't get fired.

Druid, if you get fired by WLSL let me know and I will personally call those people and get you your job back.

I live in a tight little neighborhood with new neighbors across the street and next door. Funny thing...they are all stoners!

Several times, I turned on the FM transmitter, and played Alternative Rock, Grateful Dead Shows and let one or two announce and give shout outs. I'm finding myself playing Talk Programming like Info Wars more and more.

I don't need a watt to reach my audience! Ha! Not here, anyway!

Doug

Pending on the age of the stoners you gotta spin Wet Willie, Black Oak Arkansas, Doobie Brothers, Eric Clapton, Papa John Creach, Creedence, etc.

At the neglect of duties at WLSL, Druid was tuned to KDX Worldround Radio for 16,422-seconds!

Only 3 more seconds and you would have won today's cash prize.

Better luck next time.

It's only by chance (or visitation to one of the Part 15 Forums) that someone is going to find your Part 15 stream.

When I was actually broadcasting to a community instead of just primarily myself, I viewed the stream as extending my service range to the community.  My BETS-1 signal had a typical range of 100 meters to an ordinary radio, and 500 meters to a car radio (up to 1km to the best car radio I tested).  But I could point those out of that coverage area to the stream.  I actually sold Internet Radios (preconfigured for Artsan Radio) to interested listeners (those that weren't computer savvy enough to use their computer to tune in - and believe it or not there were some of those).

I've also found that if you have very specialized programming, using social media to targeted audiences can greatly increase the number of listeners.  I've posted here before that I once held a Cliff Richard weekend, and advertised it on the Cliff Richard Facebook and Fan Club web pages and Forums.  During that weekend, I consistently had over 100 simultaneous listeners, and topped out at about 125 (which was flooding my upload bandwidth, so it could have been more).  Needless to say, that was many, many more listeners than I normally would have had.

It helped that Cliff Richard fans are particularly rabid.  It also helped that the host voiceovers (pre-recorded) were done by an eminent Cliff Richard authority.  But other, similar, targeted advertising for a Beach Boys show also produced similar results.

So, if you're only after listeners, do an all Elvis channel.  Or a Grateful Dead stoner channel, given some of the previous posts.  Advertise in the right places via social media, and you probably will get quite a following.

Those are real good ideas from Artisan Radio for building an audience.

Made me think of a game you could play that licensed stations couldn't legally do.

At a moment when your programming is at a high point quickly announce:

"This station is changing frquencies. See if you can find us."

Then switch to a different channel.

Listeners will be frantically tuning around trying to find "The good station".

Didn't think to post on the right place in facebook to advertise a part 15 stream.

For example, There's a group all about 50s 60s and 70s music and constantly mentioning your stream there could get followers and listeners.....Particularly part15engineer. This could work for other genras also. There's a group for everything it seems.

If I was streaming, this is what I would do now that this has come to mind.

Mark