[Sykes]

Does anybody know how I can create and run my own, it just me and a friend do Hospital Radio, and we wanted to branch out to where we have no restrictions or anything like that.

My Friend is the DJ, and i'm the other guy!! (so I have no idea about all the techy stuff)

Where can I do it?
What equipment do I need?
Will it cost much money?
(and all the other sorts of questions that are usually asked...)

Thanks.

[Sidders]

David should know the answer.

[David]

replied in pm.

[Sykes]

Thankyou!

Ill send that text to my mate and see what he makes of it.

[timb]

for the information of anyone who cares to read this thread the most popular way for non-profesionals is to run a shoutcast server that lets people connect via winamp. as the software is free the only cost is the physical server time & bandwidth, which can be got quite cheaply.

[Jonny Hoare]

I'm thinking thus!!

Hoare FM coming soon

[David]

sorry to be a pain in the arse... but if it was on the internet, it wouldnt technically be FM.

I don't like shoutcast for those on 56k modems - sounds crap quality.

[Lew]

and if hoare was presenting it, it wouldnt technically be entertaining

[Adam]

right, lets see what your like on radio lewis?

im sure we could draw the line to see if you make the entertaining grade.

[Lew]

hell yeh, bring it on

[kendra k]

i think we'd all be let down, lewis where's your spunk? i think the guy who is now called optimus prime stole your thunder.

internet radio is dead in the us.

[Uglybob]

David should know the answer.

Wheres todays and yesterdays review at?

[David]

internet radio is dead in the us.

and in the UK. Unless you put *a lot* of money into internet radio here it's impossible to be big... and the fact the UK are still slow with broadband means no one is going to sit at their computer for three hours every day to listen to a radio show and not be able to do anything else. Plus it does mean you have to sit at your computer, unless you have your computer wired through your stereo (but how many people do that). You cant take internet radio into the garden (unless its a laptop) and you cant take it in the car...

[Adam]

....and there's me reading you yanks have just got the hang of this thing called text messaging..

where's his spunk? - its all over optimus prime figure. plus his sisters barbie doll..

[David]

David should know the answer.

Wheres todays and yesterdays review at?

To which I don't have the answer... but Silda might

[kendra k]

no no no, david, you're missing the point. ALL internet radio is dying. so people who are doing it for fun, as i'm assuming you are, can't do it any more, as the FCC is clamping down. i don't think that's happening in the uk.

[David]

....and there's me reading you yanks have just got the hang of this thing called text messaging..

yeah - how come that has never been big in the states... surely the US would of been, like a lot of things, the first to use it... you'd think.

[David]

no no no, david, you're missing the point. ALL internet radio is dying. so people who are doing it for fun, as i'm assuming you are, can't do it any more, as the FCC is clamping down. i don't think that's happening in the uk.

ah yeah I see what your saying now... yeah that FCC thing is a pain, although your right it doesnt effect the uk... there might be something similar though. the laws about internet radio seem to be quite unclear in the uk.

[timb]

I don't like shoutcast for those on 56k modems - sounds crap quality.

all streaming is crap on 56k. you simply can't get good quality sound on a maximum of 6k/s

[Jonny Hoare]

indeed

the higher the level of access and bit rate the broadcast

[David]

I don't like shoutcast for those on 56k modems - sounds crap quality.

all streaming is crap on 56k. you simply can't get good quality sound on a maximum of 6k/s

well true but a 24kps real media stream is listenable...

[kendra k]

dial up is sooo 1995

[timb]

and so 2003 for anyone like me moving back home to devon

[Adam]

no no - but you'll be taking over from bill gates at fort microsoft soon - so dont be sad - go back to devon and live your life as an internet guru/farmer.

[kendra k]

that's crap man. i swear dsl/cable is soo easy to get here.