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The Demise of Radionomy Marks the End of Free Streaming for Internet Radio...
After the demise of the first incarnation of Live365 in 2016, European streaming platform Radionomy remained the last platform to offer free streaming to internet radio stations. However, the writing...
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Where are you Kill Radio? Almost 80 radio themed bands may still be owed...
Back in August, SoundExchange, the non-profit that distributes performance royalties to artists who have received digital airplay, issued a remarkable announcement. Over 50,000 artists and bands had...
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The future of music and radio to be discussed at the Future of Music Summit
Last week I had a conversation about radio and musicians with Casey Rae, Executive Director of the Future of Music Coalition. He told me “Commercial radio has made it difficult for artists to have...
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Bill would create royalty market for broadcaster payments to musicians
Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC)North Carolina Representative Mel Watt introduced a new bill to tackle music performance royalties for terrestrial radio this week. His timing isn’t the greatest however, as the...
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Final schedule for Future of Music Summit released, features discussions...
The final schedule has been released for the Future of Music Summit, happening next Monday and Tuesday, October 28 – 29. The agenda for the 12th annual summit features 20 sessions and events with more...
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Radio should pay & no consensus on Spotify: Impressions from day 1 of the...
Fighting off as-yet-undiagnosed intermittent internet issues I still managed to watch a good portion of several Monday sessions from the Future of Music Summit in Washington, DC. While I cannot report...
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XRAY.fm Sheds Light on the Business of Music
Last fall I wrote “an immodest proposal” that independent and community stations should work more closely with independent musicians. With that in mind I was pleased to listen to the first episode of...
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Digital Watch: Even Online There’s No Such Thing as ‘Free Radio’
While internet radio is sometimes thought of as the wild and untamed cousin of terrestrial broadcast, it’s not entirely unshackled. While web broadcasters don’t require an FCC license, and are...
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U.S. Court of Appeals Rejects IBS’ Challenges to Copyright Royalty Board...
Last week, the D.C. Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals affirmed (see the full decision here) the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB)’s decision regarding the establishment of webcasting royalty...
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Webcast Royalty Rates Set for College, Community & Public Stations
The Copyright Royalty Board recently released two orders that affect community and college radio stations. The CRB sets the royalty rates that webcasters pay for the right to play recorded music....
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Why American Independent Internet Radio May Go Extinct in 2016
The new performance royalty rates that internet radio will pay artists and record labels were released on December 16 and many small and mid-sized internet-only broadcasters are now fearing they’ll be...
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Podcast #29 – Will 2016 Be the End of Indie Internet Radio?
Small and medium sized internet-only radio broadcasters are facing a very immediate danger in 2016, due to changes in the performance rates that they are obligated to pay. Some estimates indicate that...
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Live365 to Broadcasters: We’re Shutting Down Jan. 31
Live365 is one of the oldest streaming radio service providers, having provided online broadcast tools to countless webcasters, small and large, since July 1999. Early on the service made it...
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Podcast #31 – It’s the 13th Hour for Small Webcasters
It’s the 13th hour for small webcasters, as broadcasters and supporters scramble to find a solution to new performance royalty rates that threaten to put hundreds, or even thousands of stations out of...
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Independent Internet Radio Still Imperiled
Internet radio expert Kurt Hanson declared January 31 to be Sunday Bloody Sunday for the medium. Most significantly, that was the day that Live365 turned off 5000-some internet radio streams it hosted...
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Will Performance Royalties Create a New Class of Radio Pirate?
Thousands of internet radio stations have gone silent in 2016, while thousands more may yet shut down, primarily because of new performance royalty fees that have skyrocketed for small and mid-sized...
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Podcast #33 – 20 Years Ago Local Radio Was Crushed
Twenty years ago a piece of legislation was passed that would change radio forever–and not for the better. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 lifted ownership restrictions on stations, unleashing an...
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LPFM Watch: How Internet Radio Royalty Rates Affect Low-Power Stations
Five new low-power FM stations have been granted their full licenses in the last week: KQRZ-LP, Oregon Amateur Radio Club (Hillsboro, OR) WTPB-LP, Third Presbyterian Church of Rockford (Rockford, IL)...
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Podcast #35 – Digging for Clues About Internet Radio’s Future
We dig into the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision on new royalty payments for internet radio, looking for clues about the future of small and medium-sized webcasters. In our final review of the 20th...
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Major Labels Sue Internet Radio Platform Radionomy for Copyright Infringement
Another major threat to small and medium sized internet radio stations has surfaced. As Torrent Freak first reported Tuesday, on February 26 four major recording labels filed suit in federal court...
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Podcast #37 – Preservation, Pirates, and Radionomy
On this week’s show we hear about efforts to preserve radio’s past, and the FCC’s letter writing campaign intended to undermine pirate operators. Jennifer Waits joins to talk about the Library of...
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Live365 to Return with Service for ‘Microcasters’
Just after the new year, the news hit that steaming radio service Live365 is preparing to come back from dead. The company is under completely new ownership. In fact, the new boss is a young...
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Podcast #93 – The Return of Live365 Boosts Indie Internet Radio
Independent internet radio was devastated in January 2016 when music royalty rates shot up and long-time webcasting company Live365 went out of business. Now Live365 is back under new ownership, and...
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Podcast #156 – Can We Strengthen Audio’s Public Domain?
In the U.S. the copyright situation for music and sound recordings made before 1972 is a mess of different and conflicting state laws. That’s because there is no overarching federal law. The...
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