During the final week of each calendar month, I come to you, my readers and listeners, to ask for your financial support to keep this endeavor alive for the next month. It's that time again.
The costs to bring this show to you five nights a week, and to have this website, are quite substantial every month:
Here's what this website is projected to cost me via Amazon Web Services when it bills on Dec. 1:
The AWS projection is blazingly accurate based on past site performance. The website got a LOT of extra traffic from the Israel strike upon Iran and again from the Russian ICBM Strike on Ukraine.
The cost for the six inbound telephone lines from Vonage for the radio show cost:
For the New Jersey Internet Fiber Optics to carry the show out to the world:
Verizon FiOS: $255.80 (two separate Fiber optics, one main, one failover)
Verizon Cellular Data Modem (Failover) $35
For the Pennsylvania Fiber Optics: $69
For the Pennsylvania AT&T Cellular Data Failover $69
For the Pennsylvania Cable Modem: $99.95
For the Pennsylvania Satellite Uplink: $247.37
For the SECOND PA Satellite (Failover) $165
Music Licensing: $59
In addition to the expenses above, there is a very large cost for International Shortwave Radio Stations WBCQ, WRMI, and WWCR. The radio stations publish their hourly rates on their websites.
Some months have more broadcast days than others. Some months have more Wednesdays than others, meaning the extra hour on Wednesdays can vary by month.
The total amount I **MUST** raise within the next five days comes to: $8,664.53
From its inception in the year 2000, this site and radio show have relied upon reader/listener support. There is no paying advertising on this site. I do NOT hawk products for sale and thus earn no commissions. The radio show does NOT have paying ads.
This is all by design. The radical political left-wing engages in economic sabotage to destroy any viewpoints they dislike. They organize advertiser boycotts to cut-off radio station funding, by scaring advertisers with threats of boycotts unless they stop advertising. The advertisers then call the radio stations and say "you have to stop talking about such and such or we will have to pull our advertising." The radio stations exist on that ad money, so they have no choice but to curtail what is reported or spoken about, or be driven out of business.
We don't have that vulnerability here.
Thanks to YOUR financial support, all viewpoints are heard and aired - even views I personally disagree with.
This is ONLY possible because YOU throw a few bucks this way every month. Without YOUR support, this endeavor dies fast.
So please use the donation widget below to make a donation right now. I only have until November 30 to have the money. It's due Dec.1.
Thanks for your continued support!
Hal
Those of you who cannot or will not use online financial transactions, can mail cash, check, or money order, to:
HAROLD TURNER
Post Office Box 421
North Bergen, NJ 07047
USA
Those of you who are OUTSIDE the USA, please send currency from your country, and I will get it converted to U.S. Dollars when it arrives here.
