Program Submission Requirements
Hamptons Community Radio - WEER 88.7FM is so happy to be on the air. We want to serve our East End Community and aid other non-profits (501c3s). Over time getting the best programming on the air is our ultimate goal.
Thank you for contacting us with your program suggestion.
We are currently understaffed, so we have had to adopt a policy of only accepting prepared (ready-to-air) programs. Sometimes these will come from other stations and/or experienced broadcasters, so they will pretty much be ready for pre-broadcast review by one of our staff or volunteers.
If you are prepared to produce your own program, with some minimal equipment you can actually do this at home, and email us the .wav .MP3 or other file so we can hear and review it.
If you are submitting an individual song or CD, it must be permitted to be broadcast under copyright laws. Currently we have "blanket licenses" from ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. If the music is not registered with one of these three firms, we cannot play it without the written consent of everyone involved, from musicians to composers and lyricists. By the way, radio stations and Internet streamers PAY to play music, and payments are processed by the three licensing firms.
If you are proposing to record a talk, reading or lecture, you must obtain written permission from the participants. If any of the material is copyrighted, more clearances are required. Any commentary by you
must be identified as coming from you, by name.
If you propose to record a concert for later broadcast by us, you will need all the permissions outlined above.
We expect to begin streaming our FM signal over the Internet fairly soon; it would be best to also obtain permission letters allowing such use and archiving of the broadcast(s).
Notwithstanding the above, thousands of people prepare radio shows regularly, without too much trouble. And it's a lot of fun.
At the beginning, figure that it will take ten times longer to prepare and edit a show than its actual running time. A little 5-minute insert will take an hour or more to get ready for submission to us for
pre-broadcast review.
It must be edited by you. No pauses of over a second in a talk segment, and five seconds between music sections. All errors must be edited out. Ask us about our time requirements: for example a half-hour show is not 30 minutes, but 29 minutes and 30 seconds long.
It sounds harder than it is. Radio is fun, and you can share hearing your work with friends both locally, and later all over the world. It's a thrill!
