Studio Used To Stream
Radio Brandy, will be providing some open streams of its radio networks. Up til now the streams have been private to interconnect our transmitters around the west. We will be using Shoutcast for most of our streams, and a few will be using ACC+ to save on expensive bandwidth. Unlike over the air broadcasting; the more listeners a straming station has, the more it cost to operate. Every listener cost; as an example: a 128kb stream cost around $1.10 per a listener every month before all the taxes and fees are figured in. To have even a thousand listeners, can be very expensive for the streaming broadcaster. Radio Brandy prefers each stream to end up at a transmitter; even if it’s only a part 15 FM transmitter in an apartment complex. It also saves allot of energy; the average computer uses a couple hundred watts; where as a radio might only use a few watts.
