Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.rbr.com/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.rbr.com/files.php?file=rss_logo1_757997737.jpg http://www.rbr.com/ http://www.rbr.com/radio/13536.html Radio News Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:17:00 -0400 It’s no secret that broadcasters today are faced with the biggest business challenge in the history of the medium. While past migrations in technology remained wed to broadcasting http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com Radio News Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:48:34 -0400 Well, these streaming Internet rates should do away with HD Radio - CCU's Format Lab and Bonneville's iChannel were both a failure, due to a lack of demand - perhaps, the rates helped to kill them, too. It the RIAA gets its way with over-the-air broadcasters, say adios to HD Radio, and watch the music-orinted FMs flip to news/talk/sports. http://www.wjib740.com Radio News Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:49:36 -0400 All this makes me real glad I'm not streaming, and real glad I play music solely on a good old-fashioned non-HD AM radio station! http://whmi.com Radio News Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:39:10 -0400 Fellow broadcasters, turn off your streams! I turned mine off at the end of 2007 and haven't looked back. Imagine a future where 50% or more of your listening is online; the royalty amounts due would dwarf those in the above example - for most stations well into six figures. At many stations the RIAA online royalties could easily become your top ongoing cost, exceeding payroll! Now imagine the proposed over-the-air royalties on top of that! Not a pretty picture, is it? I am very pleased that a week ago Jerry Lee of B101 in Philadelphia turned off his stream. I hope that this action taken by such a credible and successful broadcaster will be a catalyst to increase awareness of this problem in our industry. Too many broadcasters have been drinking the digital "Kool-Aid" and need to wake up. Until we can stream unshackled by the RIAA, let's turn off the streams(music formats), stop sending resources to the RIAA, and stop promoting online listening. Or, as Pocket Radio said above, flip to a spoken-word format - an option that is sounding better all the time! http://www.broadcastlawblog.com Radio News Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:31:20 -0400 One note on this article. While Greg states that the NAB figures that the Small Broadcaster exception allows for about 175 hourly listeners - that seems surprising, as the 27,777 yearly ATH reflects an average of only 3 consecutive listeners on a 24/7/365 basis (27,777 divided by 365 days divided by 24 hours gives you approximately 3.1 listeners per hour). That is the level at which a station would be paying the minimum $500 royalty. Maybe during peak hours a Small Broadcaster's website could have 175 visitors, but the visitors would have to be listeners listening for very short periods, or the station would have to have virtually no listening for long periods of time outside these peak hours to allow the listening levels suggested. http://www.bob.com Radio News Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:10:33 -0400 Once again, I'll bang this same drum...the wonderful folks on the webcasters side blew it because they failed to look at the STRUCTURE of the royalty payments - instead focusing on the actual royalty (financial people like me know better). Now we are stuck in the per performance structure and not the way it has always been: % of revenues (or even % of expenses). http://http://www.WLKN.com Radio News Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:47:32 -0400 David Oxenford is correct and I was thinking the very same thing. The math does not add up to "175 listeners average". Even a small station with an active listenership daily would be way above that ATH on an annual basis and quickly have to make payments above the $500 minimum. Radio News Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:08:11 -0400 For you internet only stations - just move your stuff to an offshore server and forget all of this. I must say, as both a musician and broadcaster, I am appalled at the ongoing assault on broadcasters playing music. Gone are the days where people waited and wished for their music to be broadcasted. This calculated destruction of music programming by those who essentially provide the content is simply unfathomable to me.