"I'm curious how many of you are interested in starting a station and how many of you already have one or a podcast..."
I have an Internet Radio Station at http://RetroPR.com which is pretty much an 80s, 90s, contemporary music station with live DJ interventions every once in a while, what makes it unique is that it is bi-lingual in English and Spanish to serve our Puerto Rico community better!
Now for what you may be interested in, I use SAM Broadcast as the radio automation software (about $300), running on a Windows Vista Refurbished Gateway Computer, bought under $400, with a APB Back UPS and a $100 17" flat panel. It's on 24/7 only reboots Sundays at about 4am to install updates and it's back on-line about 3 minutes afterwards. I also bought a Behringer XENYX 1204FX (list price $209, although I bought it at Amazon for about 179 shipping included), and a set of Behringer mics (3 for 45 bucks or so). I bought all the cabling needed for my setup (about $60 in cables and plugs), and a nice cheap Scissors Mic Arm so I can move around the desk (I got it at ebay for about 30 dollars plus shipping). For webcasting I use Shoutcast through two companies (I created my own asx, pls, ram, and m3u files so I could add more than one provider at once, and change them if needed without too much trouble), if one of the companies is down, the next one picks up my listener. I use joomla for the website. Licensing and such will vary in each country, so check it out before playing music on your station.
This is all I got, a radio station for under $1500 (it can get way cheaper (about $500 if you use one cheap mic, straight to the computer and Winamp with Shoutcast DSP plugin, but I did it the Pro way), and a monthly rate of $80 for both stream host companies, web hosting, and LoudCity licensing.
Good Luck with your Internet Radio Station!
