Everything is done through a server only for radios?
EP: We have a server just to radio online, and then we have another set of Upalala just to put the songs, which is what Nuno does and use our computers. One of the applications of smart phones is Skype; we have achieved through a hi-fi network, connect our four phones at the same time and make the program with the phones thru the Internet. Some are on the computer, others with the smart phones and get them to join it.
MV: I do direct interviews thru a smart phone and if you checked the TV does the same through the hotspots, the voice may even be delayed in relation to the image, but it's all possible now through the phones and new technologies to make a radio program with quality.
How the current team came together?
EP: We have created for this purpose a website where people can apply, accepted designers and other staff to do radio. Those who come to us and want to enter this world we shared what little knowledge we have. It has many duds; some go away and then went back again. It's too much work they say. We received a lot of applications, but when they kwon the project they think is too much and is indeed so, for what we demand, because they have to choose a time, checked availability with the DJ and we need to work on the server, they must know we can move in terms of music and what cannot be deliver, how they can speak. That's all worked.
You still do not earn anything with this?
EP: We are all studying. In the near future we intend to professionalize.
There are many radio stations like yours?
EP: With the size of ours, no. There were plenty before, but then came the licensing and cost-functions as a bubble spend much money on equipment and then you don't an immediate return. There was Porto FM, where Nuno and I started at the moment and it disappeared.
VM: The pirate sites tend to disappear. Now everything is dot.com or dot. PT and you have to pay the copyright. We do this; we paid all the contents on the page that allows us to deliver music. Before that it was not necessary, a year ago. That's why few remaining radio stations are online. Maybe two or three.
EP: We paid to an entity depending on the number of listeners, if we have more we paid more. It is beneficial, but for example, we got a fright with the values of licensing, in the end is very good when we have this kind of spending requires us to act more professional. Of course, many will be gone in particular in these times of crisis, not everyone can keep their projects.
How many listeners do you have?
EP: We don't have the exact number. On average, depends on the days of the program 4Litros lasting half an hour, has 200 entries.
EP: The radio network was born out of a net, a car site who was born a month ago, we have a page of social media is more news on the internet and social networks is growing internationally and we take this opportunity to do it at a national level, through Upalala.net. We found that the network has more feedback and make a program from it. We disclose everything and groups are made in order to have a good content to reach listeners and readers. We have more projects in mind, but it must grow.
What is the future of Upalala?
NT: I usually say that Upalala is a school, we want to give an opportunity for those who cannot enter other radio stations, make this show a work spaces. DJ's, broadcasters, bloggers or designers who want to show their project. We are not profit from this fact, comes out of our pocket and everything is done with good will. If I break some equipment is Noel that does the maintenance. (Laughs)
EP: First I want to finish the course, and then think about it seriously.
Do you edit programs?
NT: We have very few recorded programs. Our bet is always live which puts more responsibility on broadcasters and if it happened, happened, is what God wants. In the program of 4Litros swearing and something goes wrong I cannot do anything because it's live, it's out. Already happened to me and Mane to be live unwittingly, I was commenting: this girl is really cute and she was listening. The microphone was connected and it happens. The mornings are heavy. We have many ideas, but do not want to even talk about them in order to be copy. What do we do? We put the first program in the air, might not even have an impact, but now no one cannot say that the idea is theirs, because we have been copied in the past.
MV: This kind of surprises happens often in radio, with 4Litro is a constant because it is always fun. Nobody takes it badly and the audiences are theirs.
Nuno, as the announcer you must fascinated girls?
EP: Just see his changing status on facebook to realize that he is the great lover of the group. (Laughs)
NT: My last two girlfriends came thru the radio.
They still listened to you?
NT: They still hear me, but I'm committed now. My current girlfriend I meet her as a DJ, because of the chat. One of my great loves of my life was at the expense of the radio.
EP: I can also confirm that all members, who had never had girlfriends before, managed to have them through the radio.
I note that there are few girls on the team.
NT: That's why many drop out because of the boyfriends. They begin to be known by Upalala and there is a strong interaction thru facebook and the chat and that creates problems and they end up leaving.
