If your like me you listen to Webcasting from time to time. I do not normally spend hours on end listening to Radio Stations via the Net but I do tune into several syndicated programs as they are not carried in Hawaii. I have found that it is getting harder and harder to find quality on-line broadcast. While I am overseas I find myself looking for a webcast from my favorite stations in Hawaii.
But it seems that the RIAA actions which forced the governments hand in implementing outrageous fee’s that webcasters must pay in the form of royalty payments.
Clear Channel on of the largest owners of Radio Stations in the US passed the cost of webcasting to each individual affiliate and 150 of 200 stations are no longer streaming their programing. I am sure part of the reason some station dropped their webstreams to be network cost but as reported in Wired the bigger factor is the royalty cost. [Wired]
This is but one example of what is part of a larger trend in that the end results of RIAA lobyist efforts have effectively destroyed a industry that was struggling in the first place.
Geek
Let me get this straight – you’re annoyed that you can’t listen to yet another cloned ClearChannel station?
Solution: Pick any one of the remaining 50+/- CC stations that are still broadcasting online, and you’ll hear almost the same thing you hear on your ‘local’ station…
Let me get this straight – you’re annoyed that you can’t listen to yet another cloned ClearChannel station?
Solution: Pick any one of the remaining 50+/- CC stations that are still broadcasting online, and you’ll hear almost the same thing you here on your ‘local’ station…