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Pat Matthews - "Beatles-A-Rama" (cont.)

Radio Guide: Any idea how many people listen each week?

Pat: Live365 Stats software allows me to tell how many people listen in each day-part! To answer your question specifically, close to 20,000 people listen in a week.

Radio Guide: How much time each week do you put in maintaining it?

Pat: Around 10 hours per week.

Radio Guide: What was the biggest surprise about creating your own Radio station?

Pat: Learning about the "rules" the hard way - no more than 4 songs by the same artist(s) in 3 hours, no more than 4 cuts from the same CD in a three hour period, no more than TWO songs back-to-back by the same artist(s), etc. When I first launched Beatles-A-Rama, I played Beatles music exclusively. I came home one day (4 days into the format) to find my station shut down!!! Without warning! They gave me 48 hours to figure it out before saying "bye-bye" to Pat!

Radio Guide: There are other Beatles-formatted online stations. What makes yours stand out?

Pat: I think with the interviews, special programming (Beatles On The Beeb & Behind the Scenes series), covers, Beatlesque (sound-alikes), Apple Family cuts, etc. Beatles-A-Rama!!! is a pretty rare bird!Plus, we're about to launch a new daily morning program called "The Early Beatles at 8"...so spread the word!

Radio Guide: Is there anything you wanted to mention I neglected to bring up?

Pat: Just to say that I think what you're doing is great! The RIAA seems to want to kill Internet Radio before it really gets going, your site seems to give it the boost it needs!

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