[dhemingsley]

Hi Preston FM on 87.9FM in Preston and online live at www.preston.fm is halfway through its first 28 day broadcast does anyone have any views on the station positive or negative and I will pass them back to the management team

[pjb007]

That link does not work
This does : http://www.preston.fm/.

Oh there is a contact page here for people to report their views though?
http://www.preston.fm/aboutus/contact/

[dhemingsley]

Sorry my fault www.preston.fm is the proper address

Happy listening

[reindeer]

Is it not illegal to stream a part-time radio station on the web?

[Paddy_Wood]

Originally Posted by reindeer

Is it not illegal to stream a part-time radio station on the web?

Who cares!! You could probably broadcast it on FM illegally with no problems for 28 days, so I don't think anyone would give a grannys knickers about it broadcasting on the net - it's not like many people would listen on the net anyway!

[dhemingsley]

Of course it is not illegal if you get an RSL license

[dhemingsley]

Originally Posted by reindeer

Is it not illegal to stream a part-time radio station on the web?

Of corse it is not illegal it is an RSL and it has been arranged with the backing of ofcom, Preston City council, Avencentral. The European regional develpment fund, Preston Community Arts Project. It also has the support of Preston North Ends Football club

[Dyn]

Originally Posted by dhemingsley

Of course it is not illegal if you get an RSL license

Actually, this is inaccurate. If you hold a licence with PPL/PRS/MCPS to broadcast on FM, you need a second licence to stream on the internet if you want to be truely legal. I imagine many don't. I also know that it's uneconomically expensive to get the second licence just to serve an extra 50 or so people, and there are extra restrictions on what you can play. Some might consider this a ploy (maybe inadvertant) to kill off the internet as a viable radio medium in the UK. (I'm sure this has been discussed in more depth elsewhere?)

[Jake freeview]

anyone with an internet radio station like myself can broadcast on FM just need to make sure its a single frequency

[Dyn]

Originally Posted by Jake freeview

anyone with an internet radio station like myself can broadcast on FM just need to make sure its a single frequency

Eh? What do you mean? That makes obsolutely no sense whatsoever

[antcrowdie]

Originally Posted by Jake freeview

anyone with an internet radio station like myself can broadcast on FM just need to make sure its a single frequency

Another one of those people who don't have a clue what they're talking about...

IF you broadcast internet radio - you NEED a license from the MCPS-PRS alliance and PPL for it to be LEGAL. If you don't - you're broadcasting an illegal internet radio station. (these terms are only suitable for the uk, of course)

IF you want to broadcast ANYTHING on the FM band, you MUST have the above mentioned licenses AND an Ofcom license for some sort of radio station - be it Commercial or Community.

You're wrong in thinking that you can broadcast anything as long as you stick to one frequency - if you do, you may end up with quite a hefty fine in the long run.

[Jake freeview]

a friend told me and he owns a internet radio station which gets 100s of listeners sorry if i got that wrong

[Jake freeview]

I've made quite a fool of myself there lol sorry, how much does a licence from Ofcom cost for a community station not that im going to do it now but maybe in in the future with a few friends

[kev]

Originally Posted by reindeer

Is it not illegal to stream a part-time radio station on the web?

As the link is from the stations own website then they are fine, assuming they are paying the appropriate royalties.

Shame they couldn't get a decent feed to the encoder though, sounds like the aerial is substandard to recive reliable FM stereo

The "stay pressed on" links between and DURING the songs are slightly annoying, but i may well give the local rsl for my home town another crack tomorrow.