{"id":150,"date":"2007-04-26T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2007-04-26T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:10:12","slug":"web-radio-still-threatened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Web Radio Still Threatened"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SaveNetRadio.org\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I am a big net radio fan. The variety, customization, and creativity simply cannot be matched by commercial broadcast radio, which of course is why they are trying to kill it. With this retroactive royalty rate hike, nearly all of the small broadcasters and many of the commercially supported ones, like my favs – Accuradio<\/a> and Live365<\/a> – will probably fold and we we’ll be back to a sterile Clearvision world. Its all about the cash, because most artists don’t support it but many don’t control their work anymore contractually. Talk about screwed up. And, like I said before, the corps will come after podcasts next, so your attention and action are needed. If you haven’t emailed your congressional rep, go to SaveNetRadio <\/a>and speak out now while there is still time.<\/p>\n

SaveNetRadio Coalition Joins the Fight to Preserve the Future of
\nInternet Radio <\/p>\n

WASHINGTON D.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Today representatives of the growing SaveNetRadio
\ncoalition announced the launch of a national grassroots campaign to preserve the future
\nof Internet radio. The coalition of Internet radio listeners, music labels, artists, and
\nwebcasters was formed in response to a March 2nd ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board
\nthat increases the fees webcasters pay to play music online by 300-1200 percent and
\nthreatens to bankrupt the vast majority of webcasters. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The CRB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ill informed decision to increase royalty fees to this unjustifiable
\nlevel will quite simply bankrupt most webcasters and destroy Internet radio,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jake Ward,
\na spokesperson for the SaveNetRadio campaign said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Radio on the Internet is not a
\npassing fad or for a niche audience. It is an enormously popular medium that offers
\nunprecedented diversity for its more than 70 million listeners and for artists. Particularly
\nfor independent artists, Internet radio has the ability to reach millions of fans across the
\ncountry who would otherwise never hear their music. Net radio has changed the way
\npeople listen to, buy, promote and market music and we cannot afford to let it die.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

Members of the coalition, including webcasters, artists, and labels from
\nthroughout the country met with the media this morning to voice their concerns about the
\nCopyright Royalty Board\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision and its impact on Net radio and pledge their support
\nfor the campaign. The coalition\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website \u00e2\u20ac\u201c SaveNetRadio.org \u00e2\u20ac\u201c was also launched
\ntoday and will enable the more than 70 million net radio listeners and hundreds of
\nthousands of artists nationwide who enjoy and depend on Internet radio, to learn more
\nabout what they can do to help preserve music diversity on the Internet and ensure the
\nfuture of Net radio itself. <\/p>\n

Coalition members meeting with the media today included: Kurt Hanson from
\nAccuRadio; Johnie Floater from Live365; Joe Kennedy from Pandora; Courtney Delaney
\nfrom webcaster and on-line retailer Outbound Music; Reno, Nevada based band Sol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Jibe;
\nNew York City based band The Velocet; Rob Waller of Western Seeds Records; and, JT
\nColdfire of Roots Music Association. Comments and views of these coalition members
\nare posted on the coalition website. <\/p>\n

The increased royalty rate, scheduled to take effect May 15th, will become the
\nsingle largest operating expense for webcasters according to a recent J.P. Morgan
\nSecurities, Inc. study, and the majority of webcasters will not be able to generate enough
\nadvertising revenue to avoid bankruptcy. Because the CRB rates are retroactive to
\nJanuary 1, 2006, even if effective for only a single day, past due royalties alone will be
\nenough to bankrupt virtually all small and mid-sized webcasters, many of whom are the
\nhallmarks of programming diversity. According to The American Association of
\nIndependent Music, Net radio plays nearly four times as much independent music as
\nterrestrial FM radio. <\/p>\n

For more information on the SaveNetRadio coalition visit www.savenetradio.org <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I am a big net radio fan. The variety, customization, and creativity simply cannot be matched by commercial broadcast radio, which of course is why they are trying to kill it. With this retroactive royalty rate hike, nearly all of the small broadcasters and many of the commercially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}