FUZZYWICKETS: they tried this in Wroclaw for those that remember, it was called "Radio Wroclove".......I knew people who worked there, I don't think it lasted a year.
Radio Wroclove is still on the air and going fine.
FUZZYWICKETS: There simply are not enough people that are willing to tune in and listen to native English speakers speaking English in Poland. The only way a radio station survives is with companies paying money to advertise their products/services on your station and that is something you will have no way of getting. Nobody's going to pay good money to advertise on a station nobody tunes in to.
Of course, you forget about the vast amounts of cultural funding currently available in Poland. Radio Wroclove was certainly funded this way - and there's plenty of others funded in exactly the same way. They might not be strictly commercial, but in Europe, radio is very often publicly funded anyway.
FUZZYWICKETS: This station is destined to fail for reasons I previously stated.
Not necessarily so. The fact that he's producing it as part of a non-profit organisation actually makes it quite likely to succeed - there's so much funding available at the minute for cultural things, especially from the European Union.
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