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Future of Pirate stations? [message #84408] Thu, 26 January 2017 03:18 Go to next message
Tadtone is currently offline  Tadtone
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Pirate or unlicenced radio stations used to be a great underground way to find music. You had Radio Caroline on a ship until the 90's, until about ten years ago there was a a small local one near us, and so on.

With everything moving to digital or online though, what's the future of these stations? Do they all go legit? What's that going to do to indie music?
Re: Future of Pirate stations? [message #84410 is a reply to message #84408] Thu, 26 January 2017 09:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
gofar99 is currently offline  gofar99
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Hi, A simple question with perhaps a more complicated answer. First I suspect the stations to go away entirely. The reason is loss of listeners due to the migration to digital on line and downloaded music. Fewer folks even look for over the air stations. I know I don't. Thus the sub cause of their demise is funding. Someone pays for the existence of the stations and if the number of listeners falls below some threshold then the people with the money be it sponsors or other type of organization will stop paying. As for what happens to certain genre of music...I expect it too will migrate to digital. Web based sources are pretty easy to set up and not very costly.

Good Listening
Bruce
Re: Future of Pirate stations? [message #84417 is a reply to message #84410] Fri, 27 January 2017 03:26 Go to previous message
PianoGrrl is currently offline  PianoGrrl
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Radio Caroline went and got a licence and now broadcasts online. I think a lot of them will go the same route and go legit. It might make it a lot harder for new bands to get noticed, because it isn't something you can just tune into in the park anymore.
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