We're not seen as commercial because most of the B-Net is made up of University stations. We're seen as being there to help & teach people who are interested in broadcasting. All the DJ's, bar those that play every day(3), are volunteers, there to learn more about music. We also have a limit of how many minutes of adds can be in an hour - I believe it's 6 minutes, therefore we have less income than other stations. We don't get giant commercial sponsers to pour money into us so we can cover the country side with insidous logos and eye-sores of billboards.
Mostly as I see it we take pride in our stations and pride in the music we play. Every day I'm amazed by the wealth of music knowledge our DJ's have and it shows. As far as I know the B-Net are amongst a handful of stations that the DJ's can have an input in what is played, about 50% playlist the rest is our choice. People sometimes critise us(B-Net stations) in that we don't talk much, personally if I'm listening to the radio I wanna hear good varied music with a flow & not listen to 20mins of adds & some git talking C^@p I don't care about.

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It's pretty much teh fukin adds and shit talking that drive me and people like me away from pleb stations
The wharehouse The Wharehouse where ev.... not 4 me thanks.

Perhaps the primary point of difference between commerical radio and the b-net stations is that in the case of commerical radio the ove-riding imperative is to turn a profit to return to the shareholders. This can only be done by playing lots of commercials. You only get lots of commericals to play if you have lots of listeners of the particular demographic the advertiser is interested in.

As far as I understand it the b-net stations (with the probable exception of the Generator in Hamilton) do not need to generate this level of advertising as they are not required to return profits to shareholders in the same way that commercial stations are. They do need to generate income in order to continue to exist hence the presence of commercials to some degree.

They do not have the same costs as commercial stations, because most of the on air staff are volunteers, many of whom bring in their own music. I think all of the B-Net stations have some paid employees, such as manager, PD and tech person, and most find a need to pay a breakfast DJ so they can have a consistent (and awake) start to the day. Some have the benefit of accomodation provided by their uni, which also keeps the cost down. All are involved in promotions to some degree - both as a result of being in the B-Net, which brings in national advertising, and through their local efforts.

I don't think there are any fully funded B-Net stations any more, and some are pretty much stand alone in terms of their financing: Radioactive and Bfm are probably in this category.

5 was a shit album too, throwing copper is the only one i like.

Fuck off Benji

I know it will... but really why can't they just geddit right mmwaaa!

hey old fucka

ya mumma!