Internet radio service offers royalty-free music broadcasts to charity shops
Howard Lake | 12 June 2012 | News
IMSRadio.net is offering charity shops the opportunity to provide background music at no ongoing cost, representing an alternative to the royalty fees that charity shops have to pay to the Performing Rights Society (PRS) and PPL to feature ‘mainstream’ music.
The company features unsigned bands and artists and offers pre-recorded shows broadcast over the internet or through a standalone unit where no broadband service is available. Charities do not have to pay to use the service. Instead, the broadcast includes occasional charity announcements and commercial advertisements.
IMSRadio.net say that the only cost to the charity is a one off purchase of a pre-configured wi-fi/LAN radio, which cost just under £100.
The company broadcasts more than 20 different radio streams to over 250 outlets. Clients include local shops let pet shops and large franchises such as Subway and KFC.
www.charityshopradio.co.uk
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.