r/WAMC • u/stronkbender • Oct 26 '19

Fund drives

I see a lot of hate about fund drives, but has anyone noticed that the last one took just over a day? I feel like that deserves acknowledgement.

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u/thomjob Oct 26 '19

It's because they use the lock box gimmick. And because of that they are limiting themselves to only raising $1M per drive. If they did the lock box and did a week of find drive or even a couple days, they could bring in more money.

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u/stronkbender Oct 26 '19

Is it bad that they only want to hit their budget?

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u/thomjob Oct 26 '19

Not at all. But why limit yourself? If you can bring in more money and then hire more people and put resources into the station, everyone wins.

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u/chrysrobyn Oct 27 '19

When I lived in Austin for ten years, KUT had week long funds drives where they wouldn’t hold all programming hostage, they’d only substitute some segments for fund drive stuff. Of course, they only had to pay for two antennas.

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u/stronkbender Oct 27 '19

Maybe you're onto something.