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Since Y-Not Commenced Broadcasting At Ynotradio.Net, Landow Has Paid All Charges — About $1,000 A Month, Including Streaming, Royalty Payments And Promotion — Out Of His Very Own Pocket, Supported By A Part Time Job At Radio Trade Magazine FMQB.
It has been a year since Landow, his stable of twenty-five DJs and pussy-cat mascots Hugo and Starla, started broadcasting Y-Not over the Internet from his West Philly home. “Or, the Bunker, as we call it,” Landow said.
His goal is to resume the legacy of Y100, playing similar music without the restraints of company playlists, allowing the DJs to play deep album cuts or indie bands, as long as they fit with the station’s identity.
Since Y-Not began broadcasting at ynotradio.net, Landow has paid all charges — about $1,000 a month, including streaming, commission payments and promotion — out of his very own pocket, supported by a part time job at radio trade magazine FMQB. He earns no salary and all the DJs work absolutely free. Ideally, Landow would like to get sponsors or partner with another organisation, but doing stuff like selling advertisements isn’t part of his DNA. Latterly the station has began taking donations to defray costs.
In a perfect world, Landow would be back on terrestrial radio. He still has a soft place in his heart for the FM dial. Not to mention, the FM listeners.
The quantity of people tuning into Y-Not fluctuates, but on a recent Wednesday morning, 93 were listening. He admits it isn’t a massive number and it’s a far cry from the average 384,000 weekly listeners logged by Arbitron in Y100′s final years. But Landow is philosophical. “It’s just nice to know somebody’s listening.” Y-Not broadcasts thru Web radio network Live 365, which works out the popularity of a station by measuring listener hours. As of Monday, Y-Not had logged 21,361 total listening hours.
“To get a station over one thousand or two thousand is pretty difficult,” said Chris Houghton, online-marketing executive at Live 365. Y-Not is the fourth- most-popular alternative rock radio stations that broadcasts through Live 365. And Y-Not differs significantly from the three more popular stations as it caters to a Philadelphia audience, not a global one.
Landow mans the mic Monday through Fri. from 9 a.m. Till he is relieved by another DJ. Y-Not is online twenty-four hours a day with a live host curating and introducing music from 9 a.m. To 10 or 11 p.m. Monday through Fri. and 9 a.m. To four p.m. On Saturdays. On Sundays and the off hours, Landow puts the station on auto-pilot.
“Realistically, I want to have my living room to myself one day a week,” he announced.
Sound salvation When most radio stations go offline, DJs scatter to available jobs and listeners find new buttons on their radios. But the previous Y100, once called Y-Rock, has refused to go down quietly.
Its first death was Feb 2005, in a wave of format-switches away from alternative rock, when owners Radio One decided to switch to a more preferred hip hop sound. Program chief Jim McGuinn led the troops to a spare room in his South Philly house and Y100 Rocks was born. “I thought that if we kept the onlookers together in one place and we kept some semblance of a staff, that someone with an FM frequency might be entrapped to relaunch the format,” declared McGuinn, now a program director at the Current, a public-radio station in St. Paul, Minn.
The freedom of Web radio was thrilling for McGuinn and Landow, especially after the corporate management of the final years of Y100. “For the people who worked at the original Y100, doing the Web thing was getting back to why we got into the business in the 1st place,” McGuinn said. “We were the people that wanted to come over and sit on your couch and play you some truly cool record that we found.
The Internet enables us to get back to that 1st impulse that brings most individuals to radio, or should.” With little to no competition in the choice market at that time and a mailing list of 50,000 emails, Y100 Rocks prospered. “It accidentally changed into a business and a flourishing Web radio station,” McGuinn declared, who credits volunteers for helping the station file for taxes and make sure everything was legal. “We were blown away when listeners and members of the community wished to join.”
In July 2006, McGuinn recounted to his volunteer staff that Y100 Rocks would become a part of WXPN as a new service that would appeal to a younger audience, Y-Rock on WXPN. Until last year, Y-Rock was broadcast over the airwaves for 10 hours per week and fulltime online on XPN’s HD-2 channel,writes tagza.com.
Netherlands Vs West Germany- 7/7/1974 FIFA World Cup Final
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