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On 13/07/06, steven c wrote: >> How do these stations afford to pay the yearly royalties to ASCAP >> and BMI? >> Very curious -- and sure wish there was one in this neck of the >> woods! >> > As I recall, having dee-jayed some three decades ago for a > carrier-current station at Illinois State University, most of these > stations are publicly- owned, not-for-profit operations, and are given > special reduced rates by the performing-rights bodies as a result. > > However (and I think this shows up later in this thread) the waters > muddy considerably if they "simulcast" by web streaming. RIAA imposes > fees for "broadcasting" records on the Internet, based on the idea > they can be copied and used to create exact duplicates of commercial > CD's. Which is pretty absurd at the low bit rates everyone (even the BBC) is using. > > Needless to say, back in my dj'ing days, computers were about the size > of Ohio, required complicated cooling systems and climate control, and > it would have been a bit tricky to set up an IBM 360 in your sitting > room! The Internet did exist (as ARPANET) but about all you could do > with it was send text messages...something like non-HTML e-mail today. > So, the only way you could listen to WILN was to live in one of the > dorms we fed our signal to (you could sort of listen if you had a > transistor radio and stood next to a lamp-post on campus)... Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]