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Your Network Invitation
This is your invitation to join the first Internet radio network of its kind, one owned by its members: YOU, the schools. The IBS/Backbone Student Radio Network is becoming one of the most important organizations in broadcasting. It offers you resources that will simplify your operation, add content to your programming, lower your costs, and provide you new revenue opportunities.
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Here is the story. Early in 2007 IBS and Backbone Networks launched the IBS/Backbone Student Radio Network, and it is now ready for your school to be a part of it. Our goal is for you to be able to share your unique radio content with your sister stations over the network, and gain access to new sources of programming content, including news and music. This network is shaping up to be unlike any Internet venture in history.
These are a few of the benefits you will get as a participating IBS/Backbone member station:
- Program automation and live broadcast software - Backbone Radio Pro client software
- Radio station hosting services
- Network sharing and 3rd party content
- Royalty protection and representation
- Statutory license fees (U.S., SoundExchange) paid through 2008 by IBS
- Required statutory reporting provided by IBS
- Automated reporting and record keeping
- Streaming, up to 15,900 monthly listener hours
- Elastic bandwidth, up to 200 simultaneous listeners
- Up to 250 hours of programming archive, representing thousands of songs, images, clips and annotation
- Ability to cover remote events, like concerts and "away" games from other schools
All you need is a Mac and a mic
Our network lets you broadcast using an ordinary Apple Macintosh(R) computer and a broadband connection. We recommend a MacBook Pro for covering remote events. Your listeners can listen via iTunes or QuickTime.
If your school would like to become a member of the IBS Student Radio Network (IBS/SRN), please click here. The cost for IBS members to participate is only $750, which includes $75 setup fee and three months of hosting at $225/month. Or signup for one year ($2,700) and we will waive your initial setup fee.
Use of Backbone Radio Pro(TM) automation software is included, and contains technology to comply with copyright requirements.
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To join the IBS/Backbone Student Radio Network pilot, you must be a member of IBS.
Being a member of the Intercollegiate Broadcast System (IBS) provides the benefit of legal representation for its members who complete the forms and opt-in. Your cost for membership is only $125/year.
For more information about IBS Membership and a Webcast License for your station please visit their web-site.
Attention: Other Educational, Churches, Governmental and Established Non-Profit Organizations
Your organization may be eligible to join IBS and join the IBS/SRN, or create your own network with the same or similar benefits as described above. Contact Fritz Kass at IBS to find out more information concerning your eligibiliy.
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Partner Profile
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The Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) is a nonprofit association of mostly student-staffed radio stations based at schools and colleges across the country. Over 1,000 IBS member stations operate all types of facilities including Internet - Webcasting, closed-circuit, AM carrier-current, cable radio, FCC-licensed FM, LPFM and AM stations.
IBS was founded in 1940 by the originators of AM carrier-current campus college radio and has been continuously serving school and college radio for over 67 years. Originally, most of the interest involved exchanging technical information among colleges on this new form of transmission. As more stations became established and grew, the interest evolved to include management, programming, funding, recruiting, training, and other operational and creative areas.
Anyone who's been involved with college radio can tell you that the needs, problems, joys and interests of these stations are often quite different from those of "conventional" stations. Let's face it: your station is different from most others. The constant turnover of people, limited budgets and the unique character of college radio stations require a unique organization to respond to those needs. Stations require a centralized information resource to help share ideas, information and solutions. Stations should not have to continually "re-invent the wheel" because of turnover. IBS helps new stations get established and existing stations in their operation, growth and development.
Beyond dealing with individual member station questions and problems, IBS represents the interests of their stations as a whole before the FCC, RIAA, SoundExchange and other governmental and industry agencies, organizations and companies.
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