As you may already know, independent locally owned radio stations such as ours have a lot of competition with big corporate radio, plus satellite radio. A recent excerpt from a radio trade magazine claims that spot business (commercials) "may lag behind 2006" but some of the difference will be made up from streaming & website ads. Many broadcasting trade publications point out the fact that, “in the future” the Internet will probably be needed as the "Savior" of smaller independent radio stations such as ours. They point to the fact that it will take "specialty radio programming" with the offering of such on the Internet either as a "voluntary donation" stream or a listener "membership" streaming. Well, KBON does not wait around for “the future”. We ARE the future of radio.

You must surely realize that the KBON music programming certainly qualifies as "specialty radio programming", and as most of you know, we tried the first option of streaming (voluntary donations) for several years, but due to the fact that KBON had SO MANY people listening, but not enough contributing to cover the cost, we had no choice but to switch to the latter option (membership).

Of course there are radio stations offering free Internet streaming, but keep in mind, so does KBON. Most have limited streams on a first-come-first-listen basis, as we now do. The difference between their free streams & ours is, little interruptions on theirs due to it rarely reaching capacity, whereas the KBON free streams reach capacity on an almost continuous basis. That is a huge compliment to what we do, but also a reason for you to join the KBON CLUB. (Keep in mind, before the KBON CLUB we had unlimited streaming (compared to other stations' limited streaming), thus the big expense and reason we had to ask for subscribers).

Please pass the word about the KBON CLUB to any & all friends & relatives whom you think would enjoy what we do. Together, we can keep the promotion of our local music, heritage & culture worldwide…. As it should be!

NOTE: * Thursday Jan. 25th, 2007 KBON was the recipient of OffBeat's "Best of The Beat" award for "BEST RADIO STATION".

Merci,
PAUL MARX
http://www.eunice-la.com/pmarx.html
Owner/General Manager
101.1@kbon.com
http://www.kbon.com
Ph.: 337-546-0007
Fax: 337-546-0097
Personal email: paul@kbon.com
“Let us before we die, gather up our heritage & offer it to our children”. (Paul Marx)