Stephen Kafka

How To Start A Low Power FM Radio Station (Abridged) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

New Forwards / Updates Added 8/24/20

Now that you want to build, or your group has applied for a low power FM, do you know

how to build it for less than $5,000 ?

And, have it cover its own expenses, right away, and easily pay for itself in less than 1 year ?

And, give your station manager / director a yearly salary to live on ? If not, buy this eBook ! Inside You'll Find ; -A guide to revenue producing programming, to make your station self-sufficient. -A list of equipment suppliers, and costs for necessary equipment. -Sources of low cost, qualified engineering help. -Source list of low cost programming, and reduced cost cd's, etc.

-How to file yourself. Finding the right transmitter site, etc. -A listing of all the licensing fees you'll have to pay on a yearly basis, to stay legal. Plus, You'll Also ; -Learn how to operate your station unattended. -How remote broadcasts can be a goldmine for a LPFM !!! -How independent programmers can greatly benefit your station. -How to get a volunteer worker program established. -What you need to know about the Emergency Alert System. What equipment to buy, studio to transmitter links, and much more. THE BOOK WILL PAY FOR ITSELF REPEATEDLY !!!!!!

This eBook is an abridged version. It does not contain the FCC

rules for low power FM's, or a copy of the application you file with the FCC,

and other items, like a copy of a station's profitable newspaper..

Recent (2014) Unsolicited Testimonials : "Thanks Steve, it has already helped, the antenna length will be 80 foot, if City ordinances don't let me its nice to know I can go 60 foot with or without there permission, thank you so much, I really needed this book, and I have not had the time to read it from page to page yet I just skimmed through it, I love it my only hold up now is my registration to the AFF, then I believe I will get my construction permit, I am a singleton and that great !" Bill "Steve, Thank you so much! I appreciate your helping us." Sincerely, Jo Over 250 copies of the eBook have been sold to LPFM applicants, as of 12/2018. Including churches, schools, colleges and universities, state and local government entities and other groups.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SGK Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393444992
• Artikelnr.: 60095318

Autorenporträt

Former owner KIAE(FM) Aurora, NE 1980-85, (built from scratch and sold station in '85) and former owner/operator K61CU-TV Lincoln, NE 1990-95, (performing the initial engineering work, to the actual construction and operation).

Applicant for several FM stations from 1983-87. (sold out to competing applicants in Kearney, NE, Aspen, CO, Laramie, WYO, Red Lodge, MT, Kingman, KN, etc) .

Liberty Broadcasting of Nebraska, Inc.

January 1990 January 1995 K61CU-TV Lincoln, NE. ch. 61. March 1990. 810 watts at 150ft, 400 watts at 300ft, then 6KW at 250ft. (A federally licensed low power, over-the-air TV station Ch. 61).

Low powers now have regular type call letters like K J J J. The station broadcast music videos to start with, mainly aimed at the Univ of NE students who lived on campus. The University hadn't allowed Cablevision onto the campus, so the kids only had the major networks, 1 independent station (KPTM) and 61TV. (No Dish or Directv back then.) Programming started to include live sports feeds (football/basketball), classic movies, etc. An independent survey found that Ch. 61 had as many viewers as the #1 radio station had listeners. most times of the day.

Stephen G. Kafka DBA KIAE-FM Aurora, NE

January 1980 January 1985 KIAE(FM) Aurora, NE (now KRGY-FM) March 1, 1980 103.1 mhz, 2.25KW at 90ft with a construction permit for 3KW at 250 ft. The station started with a classic rock format, with classical music on Sundays from 6am -Noon. Quickly we added sports from the local team, the Aurora Huskies, the other schools in the county, Legion Baseball, and Univ. of NE sports. Sports airtime was sold to a contract broadcaster, after the first 2 years, but the station did do it originally. Was the origination station for a 4 station network, set up to broadcast the basketball championships from Aurora a couple of times. Sold 1985.

Film Technician/Librarian

Nebraska Library Commission, 1974-78.

Honorary Colonel, The Nebraska Army National Guard