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Music City Roadhouse is a listener supported station, which simply means that we stay on the air with the help of contributions from our listeners, both individuals and businesses. These expenses include music licensing, server and broadcasting, website fees, and...of course...purchasing more great music!
At the bottom of this page are some deeper details. We encourage you to take a look when you have a minute. We're 100% transparent!
We do our best to make Music City Roadhouse a great place to hang out, and enjoy adding to our ever-expanding collection of songs to share with the world. We hope to continue delivering a station that is worth supporting!
You can help us to keep streaming honky tonkin' good times by making a donation of any amount you choose securely through PayPal, using the button below. There will be the option of a one-time contribution or a regular monthly amount. (Your payment information will not be seen or stored, and your contact information will not be used by us to pester you or shared with anyone else.) Also check out More Ways To Help for other options to help us keep Music City Roadhouse alive and rockin'.
THANK YOU!!
CURRENT MONTHLY EXPENSES: $684
NOVEMBER DONATIONS: $671
BIG love and gratitude to all of our awesome Mac Pack members who generously contribute to help MCR continue to send out good vibes and great music!
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We accept 25 different international currencies through PayPal.
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THE LOWDOWN
Operating an online music radio station began as a hobby for many of us…and has become an expensive hobby. The cost for music licensing fees paid to performance rights organizations (PROs) can be astronomical for a small webcaster that just plays music with no grand illusion of making any profit at all. In all fairness, most of the PROs have affordable fees, but it’s a much different story when it comes to calculating payment to SoundExchange, which is the sole organization designated to collect and distribute digital performance royalties for sound recordings streaming online. Small online broadcasters pay fees based on Total Listener Hours (TLH). That’s basically the number of hours that -x- number of listeners have been connected to the station. The more listeners a station has, the more TLH, and thus the more it costs to pay the legally-required music licensing fees. In our case, the TLH is calculated only from listener hours in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. Listeners in other countries (whether in reality or via a VPN) do not affect the TLH.
For the Music City Roadhouse, we pay a total of $684 per month to our broadcast provider and the various PROs just to be able to legally play music. (We have been able to reduce our monthly fees from the former $1,330 by limiting our broadcast hours in the US, UK and Canada. This is not ideal, but allows MCR to stay alive.) Like most small webcasters, we rely on donations from listeners to stay afloat and commercial-free, and we’re so grateful that we've been more fortunate than many stations, some of which have had to shut down.
Please see More Ways To Help for some other options (besides those all-important donations) to help MCR continue to broadcast as the unique station you know and love.
For the Music City Roadhouse, we pay a total of $684 per month to our broadcast provider and the various PROs just to be able to legally play music. (We have been able to reduce our monthly fees from the former $1,330 by limiting our broadcast hours in the US, UK and Canada. This is not ideal, but allows MCR to stay alive.) Like most small webcasters, we rely on donations from listeners to stay afloat and commercial-free, and we’re so grateful that we've been more fortunate than many stations, some of which have had to shut down.
Please see More Ways To Help for some other options (besides those all-important donations) to help MCR continue to broadcast as the unique station you know and love.