Frequently asked questions, and answers
Who are you?
We are 1 Pure Radio Network, an independent, non-commercial enterprise that believes that radio shouldn’t be confined to just what “they” tell us to play. We want to give every musician a chance to be on our airwaves!
The staff have considerable experience in programming, particularly with alternative, rock, pop and dance music.
Where are you?
We are broadcasting from Richmond Hill, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
How can I suggest a song to be played?
There are several options!
// send an e-mail to [email protected]
// send a text to +16302967562
// you can also visit our online submission form. Just look on the top menu for “LISTEN NOW”, select it, and the form is available under “SONG REQUESTS”. This is the fastest way to get your song on the air, typically taking just a few minutes.
How is licensing handled?
All materials are broadcast in accordance with the legal requirements of TorontoCast (our streaming partner), as well as SOCAN, a Canadian Performance Rights Organization. Further, 1 Pure Radio Network has also obtained direct permission for all of the works heard on this station through all relevant rights holders or their intermediaries. Any song that you hear on our services has rigorously passed these requirements.
The music on all services produced by 1 Pure Radio will never be made available for download in any form.
Licensing and royalty fees are paid for each song, based on listener counts, to SOCAN. All broadcasts are monitored and each song is logged to ensure accurate monthly reporting.
If you own the rights to a particular work, and still wish to file a DMCA complaint and have your song removed from our service, please e-mail [email protected].
What kind of music do you play on your stations?
1 Pure Alternative Radio: The latest and the best in alternative rock, indie pop, and many other “left-of-center” tracks. The core experience is for music from 1990 to today, with specialty programming involving the beginnings of the genre (1970s and 1980s). Examples of major label artists include:
Coldplay, The Killers, Green Day, LINKIN PARK, The Offspring, Radiohead, twenty one pilots, Imagine Dragons, Bastille, The Black Keys, The Lumineers, Vance Joy, The Head And The Heart, The Neighbourhood, X Ambassadors, Young the Giant, Foster the People, Arctic Monkeys, Florence + the Machine, Lorde, Panic! At the Disco, Blink-182, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, Weezer, The Smashing Pumpkins, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, The Strokes, Phoenix, The Kooks, Death Cab for Cutie, The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, The Shins, The Decemberists, Modest Mouse, Interpol, Bloc Party.
Who listens to your station?
Based on market research conducted during May 2025, we found the following attributes:
// the typical listener is aged from 35 to 44
// higher income than the median
// approximately 60 percent male, 40 percent female
// listening time is typically over one hour
// into photography, technology, movies/film, multiple styles of music, attends music festivals
// listens nearly exclusively on mobile devices, overwhelmingly Apple over Android
// tends to be from the US, Canada, The United Kingdom, or Brazil
// within the US, tends to be from the Pacific Coast, Florida, or New York
// within Canada, tends to be from Ontario or British Columbia
How can I be a presenter (DJ) on your stations?
We are not featuring any live presenters at this time due to budget constraints, instead, our existing staff programs the stations on a daily basis to ensure a fresh music mix.
When our finances improve, we will revisit this idea, including seeking persons that are passionate about the types of music we play and who want to help further guide our vision of providing entertaining radio with features and songs you won’t find just anywhere.
However, if you do have any pre-recorded, weekly shows in the genres of EDM or Alternative/indie, we are interested in hearing from you for a potential slot in our schedule. Please submit a sample programme to [email protected].
How can I send music to you?
Our general rules are as follows:
Email your song to:
[email protected]
No Demo Tapes.
Your Music Must Be Mixed & Mastered, and Ready for Airplay.
We suggest a conventional song length (i.e. 2.5 to 5 minutes) to best integrate with our existing programming.
• Serious Inquiries Only •
Please provide your phone number, mailing address and email address with your submission. If we are interested in playing your music we will contact you with further information.
All submissions become the property of our radio stations and will not be returned. No acknowledgement of your submission is guaranteed. If the radio stations are interested in your submission, we will contact you directly. All submissions must be original works. By sending your submissions to the radio station(s), you are granting the radio station(s) permission to play the submission on-air in the sole discretion of the station. By sending in your submission to the station, there is no guarantee that it will receive airplay, but we will give it every possible consideration.
Thank you in advance for your submission.
Tell me about the the playlist strategy on 1 Pure Alternative Radio?
We tend to avoid a “hits from one era only” approach, framing the playlist as a conversation across decades: a scratchy post-punk rhythm from the Gang of Four era could be sitting next to a 2026 single that echoes it. The idea is that new music makes more sense in the context of what it’s building on.
We rely less on a fixed rotation (although some of the biggest current hits are still scheduled regularly) and more a deliberately eclectic modern-rock/indie library, spanning over six decades, with weekday programming skewing more recent (90s–now) and weekends opening the whole archive up (60s-now) on shuffle.
