Peter, I've noticed that both NPR and PBS have pushed the limits substantially on what is said during a donation acknowledgement. On NPR, the announcer doing the current pieces tends to flow into the acknowledgement but it has more and more incorporated promotional content clearly authored by the sponsor even including product names and benefits.
PBS is getting kissin' close to commercials since they can include video from the sponsor. However, I don't know what the exact protocol is for the new generation of non-profit stations. Local universities and community colleges have their stations, mostly alternative-experimental and classical music, but steer farther away than NPR does in acknowledgements of donations and don't associate programmatic material with donors. Large universities often had stations that were the leading venues for what became NPR in the '70s and so are somewhat like them. The religious stations tend to be a combination; donor/receiver/sponsor/programmer so it's hard to tell from that what a generalized non-profit station format would be like...I don't recall ever seeing one. . . . j o n a t h a n -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter R. Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:24 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Radio station app Correct. You can say something like this show is sponsored by Joe's Car Lot. And that is about it. Mac Dearman wrote: >-----Original Message----- >Behalf Of Doug Ratcliffe > > >**FYI - A reminder to people out there interested in starting a >noncommercial >radio station (for whatever reason), applications must be recieved between >Oct 12 and Oct 19, 2007, and the application itself costs nothing... > > >I have kicked around the idea of starting a radio station, but am unsure >what you meant by "non commercial" station. Does this mean you can't get >paid for advertising? > > >Thanks, >Mac > > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
