"I've said all along, we are in this together." John Simson, executive director of
SoundExchange - the royalty collecting arm of the RIAA -
extends an olive branch through 2008 that will cap the advance payments internet broadcasters will have to cough up at $2500 per year. This comes in the wake of the
Day of Silence, (it was June 26,
did anyone notice?) spearheaded by Los Angeles-based terrestrial/online radio station
KCRW (home of the brilliant
Morning Becomes Eclectic) and
SaveNetRadio, during which some of the biggest names in online radio - include
Live365, NPR and
Pandora - went dark for 24 hours, airing a
one-hour broadcast twice during that day on the history of flat fees in public broadcasting. [direct .mp3, 38mb] Under the much-maligned changes made by our government's Copyright Royalty Board,
the top six internet radio stations would have had to pay 47 percent of their total revenue (anticipated to be around $37.5 mil.) to the RIAA, starting this July. The Internet Radio Equality Act
[summary, in its entire pdf glory] has been introduced to the House of Representatives, seeking to permanently reverse this decision.
posted by phaedon
on Jul 3, 2007 -
69 comments
metropolis, on
kcrw (previously mentioned
here) is a radio show i've been listening to since 1996.
it's on most weeknights from 7:00 to 10:00 for those lucky enough to be within broadcast range, for the rest of us it can be found at
here starting 7:30 pm (realplayer, mp3 or windows media).
if you like electronic music (i hate the limitations of that label) check it out. jason bentley mixes records and hosts the show (among
other things) and does an excellent job of combining new music, out-of-the-way stuff and interviews .
it's not hyperbole to say that this show changed my life by introducing me to the music of
ltj bukem (warning: flash, frames, bad design, all manner of horrors)
posted by dolface
on Dec 26, 2002 -
10 comments
