How does rinse fm make money

So that side of Garage, the more musical and classy side, is now coming through with House. And off those, new music will splinter off. It was a part of a cycle of music developing. How healthy do you think pirate radio in London is at the moment? A lot of stations, their way of thinking is an old-school mentality of; have a radio station, do a rave, get the DJs from the station to play the rave, pay them shit money, make a lot of money, and do the cycle of that.

People who are determined and want to go through with it, will go through with it. It all just depends on what your motives are. Our motives have never been to make a million pounds.

Does the route that Kiss took, going from being a pirate to being a legal station, interest you? Yes, very much so. We want to be legal. We want to be legal to say; look at our scene, look at what we doing. And, possibly, we could go legit, with a license. We know how to run businesses. We run numerous businesses, like record labels [Geeneus owns the grime and dubstep label Dumpvalve, and the House label, Jelly Jams].

Have you been surprised by how popular Rinse has become world wide, with the internet stream? Yeah, we were surprised. I saw it, I was in it. But you can only say that once. Why have you decided to put out the Rinse FM series of compilations and mixtapes?

Our main goal is to push the radio station; we want people to listen to the radio station, and the CDs are a way of getting people to be aware of the station. Previous More. Features I So you started out in Jungle? After dozens of meetings, setbacks and disappointments Rinse was granted a community licence on 17 June. Unlike a commercial licence, they cannot sell it on for profit and as part of the deal the station must continually prove its worth to the community it serves.

Geeneus and Lockhart have already set up the Rinse Academy, giving hands-on training and opportunities for budding MCs and DJs to shine. That there are other ways of doing what you want in life. In their small but impressively professional new studio on a trendy east London backstreet, its clear the station has come a long way. Heated episodes, such as Wiley spending his show drunkenly berating a rival only to have the DJ turn up at the studio with his crew, are a thing of the past.

Over the years it just got better and better. In the middle of his set, DJ Dappa turns down the pounding beat for a moment to shout out to the Clapton crew, but these days - thanks to the station's internet broadcasts - he could be hailing listeners in Denmark or Detroit. Geneeus insists that the success — and new-found acceptance into the legal broadcasting world — is not going to change how things get done at Rinse.

Listeners shouldn't expect pop music or car insurance adverts. What then, does the future hold? It's not always cost-effective to track every play, or use information from sample days. This is usually when the radio station plays the same repertoire of music.

Switching your account. Search Close Search Search Search. Home Royalties Radio royalties. Radio royalties. How we calculate To track what's played and when, we use several methods: Pay-per-play Representative samples Research and analogy. Pay-per-play radio stations We calculate royalties per minute of playing time on many radio stations.