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Groovera is a cost-free service for our listeners but is by no means without expense. Listener support helps tremendously in keeping Groovera alive, expanding AND commercial-free. As of today, Groovera still has to cover 35% of its "break-even" expenses out of pocket which requires us to seek monies elsewhere, impacting the overall quality of our production.

For nearly six years, Groovera has brought you award-winning and critically-acclaimed chillout radio programming. In our efforts to bring you the world's finest chillout music free-of-charge and without commercial interruptions, your donations help us to continue providing our service to you. Groovera's audience and service offerings have grown tremendously from our humble beginnings. However, listener support has been sparse at best and usually only off-sets approximately 5% to 15% of our total monthly overhead costs. Throughout Groovera's years of service, Groovera founder and manager Tim Lumen has been covering the cost differential out-of-pocket with the wages earned from ordinary 9-to-5 day jobs as a high-tech consultant in addition to his full-time-plus-overtime efforts operating Groovera as a one-man team. Nonetheless, Groovera has remained from its beginnings a formidable competitor to its peers with venture funding, large teams of staff, and/or endless amounts of bandwidth provided to them free-of-charge by the world's largest media conglomerates. Groovera simply offers the highest quality chillout radio programming available.

Our costs continue to rise with the ever-growing demand for our service and the introduction of newer channels. That said, our current overhead expenses do not include the proposed royalty rates that may be imposed by SoundExchange, which will multiply Groovera's existing overhead expenses six-fold and will literally exponentiate our current budget requirements.

Unlike our web radio peers, Groovera has never at any time made an overt request for listener support. Instead we have merely declared ourselves "listener supported" and have gladly accepted the well-appreciated-but-few contributions of only 99.999% of our audience, literally only up to eight listeners a month ever come forward with monetary contributions out of the hundreds of thousands who tune in monthly. Today, we have no choice but to ask for your help. We have gone through many budgetary "tight spots" in the past and have independentally found personal financial means to sustain Groovera without making this gesture to you. But in June 2008, we have finally reached the limits to autonomously sustain Groovera without the active financial support of our audience. Many listeners have "shared the love" immensely with recurring donations (this plea is not intended for you, by the way) but we observe multitudes more listeners every day who appreciate what we do but have never interacted with us at all. Nonetheless, we know those masses value our service and would feel a loss without us!

Groovera is very proud to be a true independent radio station who serves your need, presenting many independent artists you would never hear elsewhere in radio. Nearly all of the artists we showcase are independent and are on the cutting-edge, having no commercial audience at this time. These artists are not rich, nor are they "rock stars", and are people just like you and us who are doing all they can every day to earn a living, especially in these times. Just like Groovera, they are exercizing their craft out of love for doing it. Regardless, the "chillout" music genre is only beginning to emerge in the United States. Few major media entities showcase it at all and nobody specializes in chillout music like Groovera. We are the world's first radio station to bring you multiple authoritative chillout radio channels and we still have more to come. Any one of these channels present formats viable as future FM radio, satellite or cable radio formats.

Think of Groovera as an aural art gallery. We do this in true independence with no payola, no subsidies, nothing. Ever. We play only the GOOD STUFF and what we do is absolutely REAL and unadulturated by big media or any outside influence. Groovera plays what you hear out of taste and vision without no obligations to anyone except our audience. We give you the afficionado's chillout mixes and we are esteemed to be the radio destination for those who have outgrown the experimental formats that many other radio stations present. Some of those peers even make claims such as being "extremely independent" to place themselves in our league of independent media and yet are thoroughly subsidized with free bandwidth from major media, among other things. Those who are much larger than us do not focus upon or specialize in chillout radio, regardless.

Groovera pays out of our own pockets to provide you with our service...every last dime...every last hour of the personal time we have...with very few exceptions. Groovera stands alone - we may stand TALL but we need our audience to stand with us, too! It is time for us to stir your passion because we need you as much as you need us! We are Groovera because you are YOU and without you, Groovera does not exist! So become a part of Groovera today!

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We appreciate your listenership and are grateful for your support! Thank you for your interest in helping us to continue serving you the BEST in chillout music!