Music should be free. But it isn't. Not yet anyway.
A revolution continues now....

Most radio and TV networks work this way:

STEP ONE. Salesperson calls companies, begging them to buy commercials.

STEP TWO. The production department creates the commercials for companies willing to pay big bucks.

STEP THREE. Network plays 12-18 minutes of commercials every hour.

There's nothing really wrong with this, except that about one-fifth of the time you turn on one of these channels, you're hearing or seeing commercials instead of MUSIC! That's at least two and a half months of commercials every year! RadioU and TVU don't play commercials, so we get to unleash 57 minutes of music every hour and they don't! Ha... so there!

So where does our money come from then? Listeners and viewers just like you. For over ten years, people have been sending us money so we can stay on the air.

It seems that people are always shocked to learn that literally 100% of our monthly operating budget comes from donations sent in by listeners and viewers. No companies paying us big bucks to get their commercials played.

Why would anyone send money to a radio or TV network? Maybe they just like the music and want others to be able to have it, too. Maybe they've come to know more about the incredible impact this music has on thousands of peoples' lives every day.

Whatever the reason, we're thankful to these people. Without them, we literally might not be on the air, let alone be growing into new areas!

We do a lot with a small amount of money.

It costs money to keep RadioU and TVU on the air. That's everything from toilet paper to our electric bill to Obadiah's ridiculously inflated salary (ok, just kidding about that last one!). That's the music licensing fees we have to pay just to be *allowed* to play this music on radio, TV, and online. That's our satellite uplink costs so Sky Angel and our affiliate FM, cable, and TV channels can carry our programming. That's hosting and bandwidth charges for our Website and our live online streaming. That's our toll-free request line and postage to mail out contest prizes. All this stuff really adds up!

And it all comes from listeners and viewers just like you. The other networks we compete with raise hundreds of times what we spend every month by playing commercials. But remember, we don't have that kind of money, because we don't have commercials here. We just have music instead :)

However, we do ask listeners and viewers like you to donate something to keep us going strong.

We need you to do your part to Unleash The Music! Maybe just because you like us, and you want us to stay on the air. Maybe because you want this music to be here for other people who depend on it.

We need you to make a monthly or onetime commitment, which gets applied to our monthly operating budget. How much you give is up to you.

Help us Unleash The Music. Donate now.