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Subject: Re: online radio


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Ron
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Date Posted: 19:20:22 12/16/02 Mon
In reply to: Nick Nite 's message, "Re: online radio" on 19:12:41 12/16/02 Mon

My family, friends and former listners back in Georgia/South Carolina and in Alabama have all asked me that, too..unfortunately, because musicians' unions felt like they weren't getting paid for the "extra airplay" online, they sued to have webcasters pay more royalty money...this meant that if a radio station wanted to have their audio broadcast online, they'd have to pay additional fees to do so, and would have to make the website a profitable venture (more advertisments). Our primary source of revenue is commercial air time on the radio, so trying to "sell" advertising on our website is an after-thought right now.
So you see, since it would be costly to broadcast online (about $10,000 a year), we simply can't write that check without KNOWING we could get the sponsorship to cover it. I'm sure the day will come when they work out a reasonable fee for the artists' unions and radio broadcasters to agree to for online broadcast. Until then, it's something a small company such as ours cannot afford.

Thanks for your interest!!!!

Ron
ron@q93fm.com

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