Radio Forecast Network Affiliate Agreement

Radio Forecast Network has two offerings:

-- "recorded live" customized weather forecasts designed to fit your format and audience.

-- severe weather alerts when there’s bad weather in your market area, or en route.

FORECASTS OFFERING: The forecasts are cut with opens and closes that you provide to the length you specify. We upload your station's weather to a personalized web weather-page within our website at www.RadioForecastNetwork.com. You simply access your weather-page and download the studio-quality mp3 file. Your automation system can automatically download these files directly from our website. Through a partnership agreement with Digital Jukebox, audio-downloader software is available at a special cash price of $50.00. (Payable to Digital Jukebox). Visit www.radiospiders.com to learn more.

Radio Forecast Network will provide up to eleven (11) separate forecast updates per day, Monday-Sunday, covering multiple dayparts.

Your radio station may specify any length up to (45) forty-five seconds. Please specify if network or automation requires an exact length, i.e., 29.5 seconds, 30.0 seconds, etc. If a jingle will be added at the station level, your radio station is asked to provide the available length of the "donut" for actual forecast voiceover. Otherwise, Radio Forecast Network reserves the right to deliver the cut from 28 to 32 seconds. RFN agrees to deliver forecasts "dry." Music beds or "jingles" inserted at the RFN announcer level will be negotiated at a higher rate (barter).

Rates:

In exchange for this service, your radio station agrees to provide Radio Forecast Network with three (3) minutes on a use-or-lose basis --- either: (6) 30 second spots per day OR (3) 60 second spots per day 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM Monday through Sunday.   The station has the right to refuse ANY commercial provided by RFN. In such a case, RFN must be notified immediately so a replacement client may be provided and ANY missed inventory must be made good by the station. 

Suggested Feed Schedule:

(We will deliver weather forecasts to suit your needs; many of our stations choose the following.  All times are local to the radio station, Eastern-Central-Mountain-Pacific):

• Monday - Friday: Morning (AM) feeds are posted prior to 6:00 AM. Midday/Afternoon (MID) feeds are posted prior to 12:00 noon. Evening (EV) and Overnight (OV) forecasts are posted prior to 5:00 PM. AM forecasts are worded to be valid 6:00 AM to 12:00 Noon. MID forecasts are worded to be valid 12:00 Noon to 6:00 PM. EV forecasts are worded to be valid from sunset-midnight. OV forecasts are worded to be valid any time after midnight through sunrise.
• Saturday & Sunday: Feeds to be updated throughout the day during the weekend for stations using Digital Jukebox Audio Downloader software. For non-automated stations---All feeds for AM, MID, EV and OV for Saturday and all feeds for AM, MID, EV and OV for Sunday will be uploaded in their respective file locations by 6:00 AM that morning.

Terms & Conditions:

1. Radio Forecast Network agrees to provide at least one "dry" forecast for each daypart.  Music beds or weather jingles can be mixed in at a nominal trade charge.   
2. Radio Forecast Network cannot provide forecasts, live updates or “special reports” via telephone.
3. Radio Forecast Network assures timeliness in the delivery of our updates and guarantees that forecasts will be specific to your National Weather Service zone, but does not guarantee the accuracy of the forecasts.
4. Radio Forecast Network cannot be held liable for forecasts that are not deliverable due to power or service interruption or internet service provider problems.
5. Either party for any reason may terminate forecast services. Radio Forecast Network agrees to give at least fifteen (15) days notice, except in cases of non-payment for services, and expects similar consideration in return.  If the RFN affiliate cancels, all spots through the end of the then current MONTH run must be aired.
6. Sponsor mentions must be provided forty-eight (48) hours in advance of their airdates. No more than one sponsor mention per daypart may be incorporated into the open and/or close of the forecast itself.
7. Radio Forecast Network must have the option to email insertion orders to the radio station. Radio station must agree to confirm insertion-order online. It will not be necessary for the radio station to send separate "hard-copy" contract by mail.
8. Commercials to air on station will be available on Radio Forecast Network's Website or FTP site or will be sent by email in an mp3 format.
9. Online affidavits of Proof of Performance must be sent by the RFN radio station on a weekly basis and are available for processing each Monday following the previous week’s schedule.
10. Email addresses for pertinent staff & management should be provided in order that Radio Forecast Network notifications pertaining to the respective departments are easily delivered.

ALERTS OFFERING:  The alerts have a 30-second ad embedded from a national sponsor, and the outro will have your call letters and give you the chance to sell “tagouts,” which are the local outlets for the national sponsor (example outro:  “This WNAV weather alert is sponsored by Michelin.  Find the right Michelin winter tires at Merchants Tire, on West Street in Annapolis”).  When a severe weather report is available, we email one or more contacts at your station (and can ALSO cell phone text message and make an automated-voice phone call) with the URL of the mp3, such that you can move quickly to pull it down and run it as many times as you like—we simply REQUIRE you to provide proof of performance of schedule on a weekly basis via our web-based system. Agreement accepted for Reports & Alerts [  ] -or- Agreement accepted for Alerts only [  ] radio station by:

Call Letters and frequency:

Address:

Agreement accepted for Radio Forecast Network by:

Larry E. Usner   1709 N. Hwy 93   Scott, LA 70583   337 886 9323 Phone   877 637 5251 Toll-Free   877 270 4620 Toll-Free Fax