Foreward

The globalization of radio entertainment into large media outlets, owned by a few elite moguls, has all but completely destroyed localized radio entertainment; locking out community-based culture and replacing it with nationwide programming that is stuck on forever replay. Finding solutions to bring back localized FM radio entertainment, within a budget anyone can afford, is the only way to take back our airwaves.

Introduction

@Cue.Tip is a worldwide entertainment platform that provides promotional opportunities for hidden and undiscovered talent, through a network of low power radio stations who are taking advantage of our royalty free content feeds. *

The Plan

Radio and television have always been in the forefront when it comes to giving exposure to rising stars. @Cue.Tips attempts to cut into the radio entertainment industry by networking low power radio stations, around the world, into a collective forming the Low Power Radio Network (LPRN). Using the power of the web, low power radio broadcasters are provided with unlimited access to @Cue.Tip promotional feeds--covering about every genre of music and audio entertainment imaginable.

How It Works

When you join, Buskin' Buskers promotes your productions by making them available for the play lists found on the individual pages at Interstate 01, your online portfolio and fan club forum, as well as the cover page for each production you upload. Each title you upload also gets a shot at being broadcast over FM radio stations in countless neighborhoods around the world.

Air play is awarded only to those titles that make the Top 100 charts for each genre (known as the promotional period). Radio air play continues until the production's ratings fall off the charts. Once off the charts, it is no longer available for live stream and can only be heard through individual play lists on Interstate 01 and your porfolio. Isolated, randum air play will continue until you remove your title from promotions.

Now To Get Started

Membership is all ways free and provides you with:

1. Artist's customizable portfolio page with share URL
2. Cover page for each title added
3. Albums to organize your titles
4. A fan club for others to join and interact
5. Notification and message lists to keep you connected with your audiences

Using our online tools, we also provide you with money making opportunities through:

• Copyright permissions with promotional and fee-based royalty management tools
• Play and download tracker for each title uploaded
• Online memorabilia store with paid HQ download center

To get started, go here then follow the instructions provided.

* Each owner/author/producer retains all rights to every production they upload to the server. Only productions that are authorized for promotions are made available for stream outside of the owner's portfolio. Once promotional authorization is revoked, the production is removed from all play lists and only made available through its cover page.

When in promotion, anyone can add the title track to the play list on their page. However, once promotional authorization is revoked everyone who has linked to your title get notification that it will soon be removed with the option to purchase if they want to keep it on their page. The title is further completely removed from all live radio broadcast streams over the Low Power Radio Network.Go back

Radio and television have always been at the forefront when it comes to giving exposure to rising stars. When you join PhunkyRide.com, you are adding your titles to the cue for an audience of millions of listeners over the Low Power Radio Network; and a chance of being featured on the Rush Hour under the @Cue.Tip, with DJ Chaz hot in the seat with millions of commuters. There's more!

PhunkyRide.com breaks into the control structure of large corporate content providers, who are choking off talent with their national programming, by offering a free public platform where unsigned musicians can compete for promotional air play.  The platform works as a two-way cooperative:  On one hand, there are multitudes of low power radio broadcasters who are searching for access to quality content outside of mainstream media outlets; while on the other, unsigned musicians are desperately seeking exposure across a wide-variety of audiences in search of fame.  Armed with these two conditions, PhunkyRide.com offers itself as a promotional platform that strives to move the underground into mainstream entertainment using the power of radio entertainment over the Low Power Radio Network.

How It Works

1. Signup for an account. Membership is free.
2. Customize your portfolio page telling us about your journey into the world of entertainment.
3. Create a title then upload your Mp3 or Mp4.
4. Customize your title's feature page.
5. Set share options and copyright permissions for promotional airplay.
6. Activate your title in the online library for others to find.
7. When all is done, add your title to the cue for air play over the Low Power Radio Network.

Once you grant copyright permission, your title is added to the cue for LPFM and pirate radio disc jockeys around the world.  Whenever you decide to revoke permission, your title is removed from the cue and all radio operators are notified to pull it from their library. PhunkyRide.com also helps promote your titles across all of its social media pages.

Getting Started

Click here to create an account now! Membership is All Ways free and provides you with:

1. Artist's customizable portfolio page with share URL
2. Cover page for each title added
3. Albums to organize your titles
4. A fan club for others to join and interact
5. Notification and subscription lists to help keep you connected with your audiences

Using the online tools at this website, you are also provided with money making opportunities through:

• Fee-based royalty management tools
• Play and download tracker for each title uploaded
• Online memorabilia store
• Paid HQ download center
• Access to book your own tours locally or nationwide

To get started, go here then follow the instructions provided.

* KLOKi is a pirate FM radio station operating in Denver, Colorado. Though its programming is 100% legal, its broadcast is not. Rush Hour under the @Cue.Tip is aired daily, beginning at 3pm until 7pm, and covers 3.5 miles north and south along I-25, and 1.5 miles east and west centered from downtown Denver. That's four hours of pirate radio before a listening audience into the hundreds of thousands, 7 days a week.

Intro

Imagine becoming a local radio personality or DJ by owning your own neighborhood FM radio station, capable of getting out 3.5 miles.

• Help educate your community in the issues that matter
• Provide opportunities for amateur musicians to have their music heard
• Entertain hundreds if not thousands of your neighbors with raw talent
• Help promote diversity on the air
• Help strengthen community identity

Operating your own low power radio station is easier than one might think. But what of the cost, and what does the law say?

The Law

The law in the United States prohibits transmission on AM/FM frequencies without a license. The good news is that there is no cost to file an application for a permit to construct a low power FM radio station (within the United States), nor is there a license required to operate one after it is contructed. The bad news is, in order to be legal, you must comply with the strict standards the FCC has created limiting access to the LPFM program.

For more information, visit the FCC info page on Low Power FM Radio

What is needed to qualify for a LPFM?

• You must be a non-profit with a presence in the community for at least two years.
• You must broadcast at least eight hours of locally-originated programming each day.
• You must pledge to maintain a publicly accessible main studio in the community.
• You must wait for the FCC to announce that it is accepting LPFM applications.
• You must select call letters that do not conflict with other radio stations.
• You must prescribe to basic airwave standards of content. In other words, you cannot curse or use your studio to disseminate false or misleading information designed to inflame or cause harm. Speech and debate related political, religious, social and economic commentary always allowed.

What is needed to pirate radio?

Nothing more than a studio and FM radio transmitter. Transmitters are widely available on the internet.

What equipment is needed?

Buidling your own low power radio station is easy and affordable. To be legal, the FCC requires:

• A license to contruct and operate a LPFM
• Publicly accessible space for your studio (law requires the public must have access to your studio).
• Sound mixing equipment (can be a single computer with DJ software installed).
• Low power FM transmitter (max 100 watts).
• A compatible transmission antenna (must be within length and height restrictions governed by the FCC).

How to apply for the Low Power Radio Network?

• Anyone operating a radio broadcast station may apply.
• Member radio stations may only air titles provided on the daily LPRN play lists.
• Members must air a minimum of 6 scheduled hours of network programming (up to 16 hours available).
• You agree not to advertise during network feeds.
• If you are a low power FM radio broadcaster, go here to register for a feed on the Low Power Radio Network.

Disclaimer

By constructing your own radio broadcast station you are solely responsible for knowing and abiding in all laws, rules, and regulations governing radio transmissions within the jurisdiction where your transmitter is situated.

About LPRN

Low Power FM (LPFM) broadcast radio stations are widely operated by non-profits, community organizations, local artists, churches, ministries, schools and government organizations, and pirate radio broadcasters to provide communities with localized music, commentary, information, education, and radio entertainment.

The Low Power Radio Network is a streaming media subscription service for LPFM's who are providing audio entertainment. Many of these introduce performers found on the street, in basements, garages, and amateur studios.

There are hundreds of low power radio stations across the United States and thousands throughout the world. The Low Power Radio Network serves this community as a royalty free content distributor, contributed by unsigned and mostly unknown musicians seeking exposure in exchange for their grant of promotional permissions. Using this scheme, LPFM's partner with local musicians to provide radio entertainment that promotes quality programming for the radio station, and increased exposure for the musician, outside of the control of large corporate moguls.

How to Stand Out on the LPRN

There are tens of thousands of underground mucisians

In the beginning, the internet broke into the music industry by offering individuals the power to promote without an established label. But then, as popularity rose, the space became so crowded that today it is even more difficult to get the exposure you need. This is mostly because, unlike content providers, individual artists focus too much on them self and not enough on promoting each other. As a result, most artists using the internet only receive a limited and random listening audience before they move on. Promoters do not have that problem as their content is constantly changing, leaving audiences to return day after day to discover the latest.

Foreward

PhunkyRide.com is a content provider and media plugger. All titles that reach the top 50 in our charts are featured on our social media pages, to include those that are chosen to air on the @Cue.Tip rush hour show with DJ Chaz.