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In Reply to: RE: This is fascinating. posted by Al Nico on April 14, 2017 at 14:34:35
Can you imagine the electric bill per hour using a transmitter at 500,000 watts? The input watts is much higher too.
Where does a station even get the money for all that equipment?
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Jim,the advertising revenue of the day and the outreach of that station would more than take care of that station's revenue but today,I really wonder how they would survive.Most of these stations have a sister FM station or are online which keeps them relevant but in that case they wouldn't the horse power of 500k watts. Like Al said,can you imagine the microphone collection in that place?
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Based upon 55% transmitter efficiency and other station power requirements 500KW output would cost $150 an hour based upon 15 cents per KW per hour. That is $3600 per 24 hours broadcasting.
In that area,a couple ads more than pay for that because of the station's reach. Anymore tho,I'm not sure with so many new advertising mediums.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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