You submit an application to operate a commercial radio station to the
Federal Communications Commission.
Go to < www.FCC.gov > and start reading.
The purpose of commercial radio is to earn profit for its stockholders, by selling a product to its customers. The sellers are the owners of the radio station. The customers are the commercial advertisers whose messages are broadcast on the station. The product that they buy is the ears and attention of the station's audience.
Create a radio station then then play some music and interw with someone
Basically, the listeners, who are the patrons. ============================= Another contributor has a different view: Not at all. There's no business agreement or transaction between a radio station and its listeners. The customers of a radio station are its advertisers. The advertiser pays the radio station, and the radio station delivers the ears of the listeners to the advertiser. The business transaction takes place between the advertiser and the operator of the radio station. The listener is the product that the customer buys.
The frequency on the radio dial doesn't tell us the power the station is using to transmit. There may be an AM radio station at any spot on the dial that is transmitting at any power level between, maybe, 10 watts and 50,000 watts. That decision is made when the radio station applies for its license, and the license to operate is granted.
The Blitz radio station is a commercial active rock radio station licensed to Columbus, Ohio. They located at Columbus and owned by North American Broadcasting Company, Inc.
More than likely the radio station offers what is called a sponsorship. While the station may say it is commercial free, they will more than likely have a spot open to mention how they are commercial free and who sponsored their commercial free radio listening.
KDKA broadcast in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Community radio gets sponsored by the community. i.e. (local) government). Community radio therefore has no profit target Commercial radio is like a normal business; earning money with advertising, using that money to make radio programs. When radio programs get a lot of listeners advertising in those programs gets more expensive (basic economic law) which means an increase in profit for the commercial radio station
The BFM radio station is an FM radio station that is broadcast from Malaysia. It is Malaysia's first FM radio station to focus on news and topics related to business and it first went on the air in September of 2008.
No. Radio stations are made to make money. Good ones make a lot of money. Bad ones can be changed to become good ones and make a lot of money. So every radio station is a possible source of a lot of money, and for that reason, every radio station costs a lot of money. And by the way ... you need a federal license to operate a radio station legally, and the federal license costs money.
"Geico Radio" is a pretend, fictitious, make-believe, pretend radio station, that exists only in that one Geico TV commercial with the kid, the gecko, and the big computer print-out.
To start your own radio station you have to have a fair number of things in place from equipment to a license. You could have the ability to broadcast at a kabillion watts and it would do you no good whatsoever until you get a license (the FCC is rather testy about unlicensed transmissions on the FM and AM frequencies). Get the license, get the equipment and get on the air!