Good News - We will be adding eighteen more hours of classic jazz to our playlist very soon. This will result in providing more variety of music within a total playlist of 54 hours.
Bad News - We are at a crossroads with Bop City. While our station is enjoyed by jazz enthusiasts around the world, we are not generating enough revenue to pay for our broadcasting costs. Yes this is a hobby and hobbies cost money, but as the economy continues to erode, which is directly affecting me, every dollar saved is helpful.
Since inception our station has received over 103,000 listener hours. We've been able to accomplish this two ways - one, with a grassroots promotion effort and, two, by providing excellent content. We are disappointed that Live365 has never featured us on their website which would drive listeners our way; especially since we pay them to broadcast. After all, we are the highest rated classic jazz station on Live365. We've been on the air for three years. At this point we have no reason to believe that Live365 will promote our station.
So, we have four months to decide what to do. We would really hate to see Bop City go by the wayside, especially since classic jazz continues to lose broadcasting outlets. But, that may very well be what happens.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
More Updates
Just added, to the playlist, Johnny Griffin's Little Giant and Oliver Nelson's Screamin' the Blues and Straight Ahead.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Updates
Over the week we'll be updating the playlist with some great tunes. So far we've added Hank Mobley's, Messages, Jackie McLean's, 4, 5 and 6 and Little Giant by Johnny Griffin.
