Quoting a previous Sterling Times contribution:-

I had always presumed that it was most likely that the Big L staff did
not get paid.

How many £20k-30k salaries does it pay out?

It makes the operational cost huge after transmitter and Sky delivery
costs are funded.

I just don't get how this is even mildy affordable.

The point being, surely, that any 'vanity' station that's funded by people who can afford to bankroll it for whatever reason – kudos, power, mental condition – is that it is affordable by them in the first place. The people 'running' the station don't have to answer to any real commercial pressures whatsoever, 'cos the 'owners' just keep on paying for it all, such is their ego. Nice gig if you can get it! Ideally if the guy/guys you are sapping are so rich they can fund the station (as they might fund any hobby) for 50 years then you're well happy. Probably though, most rich folk start to run out of this throwaway money after a few years, so that could be what's happening now for Big L Frinton.
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