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Show Costs Much Money to Operate Radio Station Very few people have any idea of the cost of operating a radio station. To install any kind of transmitting set with power up to 1,000 watts It would cost from $5,000 to $-10,000. The science of the transmission of sound at the present time .is developing devel-oping so rapidly that n sending set that would be up to date today in six months would be obsolete. The broadcaster must pay studio and office of-fice rent of from $15,000 to $10,000 a yeur. Tlie investment on a bly station runs from $T.")0,000 to $1,000,-000. $1,000,-000. rick-up equipment costs from $10,000 to $1.000. Line cliarfres that is, for telephone wires to transmit trans-mit programs cost approximately from $10,000 to $1'J,000 annually. Electricity amounts to about $13,000 a year, nnd there are n number of incidental expenses that run to nbout Sir,,0t)0. Microphones cost at least $73. |