€1 48035%
Music licences
Paid per record, whether four people are listening or four thousand.
PAID≈ 262 H OF AIR
Keep us
on airlistener-funded, no ads
HOUR 30%·VOL 72%
Live · AVAVA Talk
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2 418 LISTENING
Marrow Tide — Vocoder Dreams
04:12
06:38
01 — Where it goes
Where the money goes
€4 200every month · 744 h on air in August
€0€1 000€2 000€3 000€4 200
35% MUSIC LICENCES · €1 48026% STUDIO RENT · €1 10017% TRANSMITTER · €72013% GUEST FEES · €5608% TAPE AND REPAIRS · €340
€1 10026%
Studio rent
Two rooms above the harbour, one of them left unlocked for guests.
PAID≈ 195 H OF AIR
€72017%
Transmitter
FM slot, backup line and the servers holding the whole archive.
56% COVERED≈ 127 H OF AIR
€56013%
Guest fees
Travel and a flat fee — the first thing that goes in a short month.
NOT YET≈ 99 H OF AIR
€3408%
Tape and repairs
Needles, belts, blank tape, and whatever the desk breaks.
NOT YET≈ 60 H OF AIR
AUGUST · 71% COVERED
€1 218 TO GO · 19 DAYS LEFT · NEXT UP: TRANSMITTER
Cost by monthSEPTEMBER IS THE EXPENSIVE ONE — 24 HOURS OF JAZZ
JFMAMJJASOND
NO SALARIES · NO ADS · ACCOUNTS PUBLISHED EVERY JANUARY · AN HOUR ON AIR COSTS €5.65ASK FOR THE 2025 ACCOUNTS ↗
August€2 982 IN · 71%€1 218 TO GO · 19 DAYS LEFT
THE LIGHTER STRIP IS YOUR €12 — IT MOVES THE MONTH TO 71%Or your own amount€12 PAYS FOR 2.1 HOURS OF AIR
€5€30€60€120€250
Last in the logNOOR · €12ANONYMOUS · €5BRAM · €30LENA · €1210.4 HOURS PAID FOR TODAY
03 — What you get
NOTHING BEHIND A PAYWALL · THE STREAM STAYS FREE
What you get back
Show what comes with
€12 OPENS THREE OF THE FIVE
The printed grid
A folded sheet of next month's schedule, posted to you on the first Monday of the month.
POSTED MON 6 SEP
Archive, one day early
Every set lands in your feed the night it airs, a day before it goes public.
NEXT DROP TONIGHT, 00:00
Your name in the log
Printed in the broadcast log on this page, if you want it there.
ADDED WITHIN A DAY
A seat in the studio
Sit in on a live show, one Thursday a month, four people at a time.
4 SEATS A MONTH
The year on tape
One C90 a year: the night we all agree was the best one, dubbed by hand.
POSTED EVERY JANUARY
When things arriveSHEET EVERY MONTH · SEAT EVERY MONTH · TAPE EVERY JANUARY
JFMAMJJASOND
POSTED THIS MONTH · 1 402 SHEETS · 4 SEATSEVERY SUPPORTER GETS THE PRINTED GRIDSEE THE GRID IT PRINTS ↗
How far August is paid for12 AUG · 19 DAYS LEFT
528 Hpaid for · 216 h to go
At €5.65 an hour the month is covered to the 21st. The next €318 finish the transmitter; after that come guest fees, the first thing to go in a short month.
1—7 AUG · PAID
8—14 AUG · PAID
15—21 AUG · PAID
22—31 AUG · TO THE 21ST
€2 982 OF €4 200 · 71%MUSIC LICENCES PAID · STUDIO RENT PAID · TRANSMITTER 56% · GUEST FEES NOT YET · TAPE AND REPAIRS NOT YET1 402 SUPPORTERS
05 — Other ways
MONEY IS NOT THE ONLY THING WE ARE SHORT OF
Other ways to help
Closest gap Friday 3 September, 20:00—06:00 — still unpaid €57 COVERS IT
01€57
Pay for one night
Take a single night in the schedule and cover it end to end — 10 hours, 20:00 to 06:00. We say so on air, once, without ceremony.
4 NIGHTS OPEN IN SEPTEMBER
12 NIGHTS BOUGHT THIS YEARPICK A NIGHT ↓
02SHOP
Buy the tape
Mixes on cassette, the yearbook and two shirts. All of it prints at cost plus air time.
ORDERS BY E-MAIL
SENT FROM THE STUDIOWRITE FOR THE LIST ↗
03IN KIND
Send gear
Working turntables, a spare mixer, cables, shelving. We collect in Amsterdam ourselves.
WE COLLECT IN AMSTERDAM
TELL US WHAT YOU HAVEOFFER IT ↗
04NO FEES
Bank transfer
Straight to the foundation account, nothing skimmed by a card processor.
NL41 AVAV 0842 1188
STICHTING AVAVA
05LEGACY
Leave it in the will
Two people have. It paid for the transmitter we are still using.
WE'LL PUT YOU WITH A NOTARY
2 BEQUESTS SO FARWRITE TO US ↗
06FREE
Tell one person
The most effective thing on this page. Send them a set they would actually finish.
SHARE A LINK
318 CAME VIA A FRIEND
September nightsEMBER = STILL OPEN · PICK ONE
4 NIGHTS OF SEPTEMBER STILL UNPAID · €228 IN TOTALWRITE TO US ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE ↗
06 — Questions
Before you ask
1 183Asked this year100%Answered4 HMedian reply
01MONEY
Where exactly does it go?
Into the five lines above, in that order. Nothing is spent on advertising and nobody here draws a salary from donations.
€0.00 IN SALARIES
INES ROA · STATION MANAGER
02BILLING
Can I stop whenever?
Yes, in one click from any receipt e-mail. No notice period, no phone call, no exit survey.
AVERAGE STAY · 19 MONTHS
MIRA BAKKER · ADMIN
03BILLING
Do I get a receipt?
Immediately by e-mail, from Stichting AVAVA. Dutch donors can use it for tax relief; ask and we send the ANBI statement.
ANBI SINCE 2021
MIRA BAKKER · ADMIN
04AIR
Is the stream going behind a paywall?
No. Everything you can hear today stays free, ads-free, for everyone — that is the point of paying for it this way.
0 ADS IN 10 YEARS
INES ROA · STATION MANAGER
05AIR
Can my company sponsor a show?
We take money, not editorial. You can cover a night and be named once; you cannot choose what gets played on it.
12 NIGHTS COVERED THIS YEAR
BRAM DE VRIES · SCHEDULE
06MONEY
What if you go over the goal?
It rolls into the guest budget and the archive. We publish the accounts every January.
ACCOUNTS SINCE 2017
INES ROA · STATION MANAGER