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Our purpose is really simple. It's not to allow OUR MUSIC from vanishing off the face of the earth. Oldies radio stations become fewer every day. FM and AM stations are dropping oldies formats because "the audience is too old" or "the audience has no disposable income". We beg to differ.
Oldies stations that are left are confined to playing 400 to 500 repetitive oldies, that have in essence become "adult standards". In fact some oldies stations cannot even use the word "oldies" because consultants think that the word oldies has a negative connotation. They have to use vanilla terminology like "classic hits". Again we beg to differ.
We think oldies listeners are passionate about their love of the music of the 60's and 70's. It's the music we grew up with...its the soundtrack of our lives.
So we want to keep our music alive. How do we do that? We do not derive revenue from advertising. BigOldiesChicago.com is commercial free, so we have no ad revenue. That's where you can help.
Our plan is simple: we create the best station we possibly can, refrain from contaminating it with advertising, and then ask you to pay us what you think it's worth. We're not likely to get rich this way, but that's not our goal.
Here at BigOldiesChicago.com we're not just non-commercial. We're anti-commercial. We feel that quality radio programming and advertising just cannot co-exist. We also choose to refrain from forcibly extracting money from you by charging subscription fees. We leave it up to you to decide what our service is worth to you.
Your voluntary support enables us to devote all of our time and energy to making BigOldiesChicago.com the best station possible - and pays for the bandwidth, equipment and services required to keep the station online, and for the rather substantial copyright royalties we are required to pay.
The amount of your contribution is up to you - based on your opinion of how much you enjoy BigOldiesChicago.com and what you can afford. A number of listeners have adopted the "one hour's wages per month" formula - some can afford to send even more than that (thanks!), others can afford only $5 per month.
We particularly appreciate automatic monthly, quarterly or annual support payments. The more regular ongoing support we receive in that fashion the less we have to bug you on the air. Please consider choosing that option on the support form.
We want to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed . We quite literally couldn't do it without you.
And, as always, we understand that contributing money is just not an option for some of you. That's fine. BigOldiesChicago.com is open to everyone, and we will do everything in our power to keep it that way.
815-385-4867 • Cliff@BigOldiesChicago.com