[Avian]

The reality of the situation with us is this:

If AM adds 50 listener slots, people would fill those listener slots, and we'd bein the same position we're in now with the station being full.

If we added 100 listener slots, people would fill those listener slots, and we'd bein the same position we're in now with the station being full.

You get the idea. Because we're on Itunes, we would fill up as many listener slots as we woud provide.

Going to 80k would increase costs a lot. Adding a few more slots, depending on how much might be feasible because it wouldn't cost as much, but would add a monthly cost burden to Jim. It just creeps up and up and up.

Jim, Roger and I are looking at a few things in the future to help reduce costs, like getting a better bandwidth deal, and like Roger mentioned, moving the webserver with VAX's help.

What woud REALLY help is for people to donate _some_ bandwidth. The shoutcast application takes up almost no CPU or memory - if anyone has a machine on a T1, and could spare, say 25 56k slots, then that would help. And if we could work out a deal with a few people like that, it would really add up to make a difference. A good amount of internet radio stations work on this model. We just need to put the word out.