Hi Part15 family,
Hi Part15 family,
I had to part ways with my former online royalties partner Loudcaster, they shut down, now I am using StreamLicensing.com, so far so good and a good deal and being treated well.
We’ll see how it goes, but I think some people said they were online too in addition to Part15, so I was just thinking of you.
Geoff
Have a fantastic week
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RFB says
Less Expensive
I would just go direct and get on their fixed low power rates, which is only a once a year cost compared to that monthly cost that can go up just based on TLH.
I avoid it all together since there are already a million stations airing mainstream garbage and stick with independent stuff. Less paper chasing and headache.
RFB
Carl Blare says
Us Too
I also wonder about the fuss by private smaller stations over the licensing thing, as RFB said, everybody’s doing the exact same thing.
There are tons of alternative sources of music through creative commons and other free licenses which bring something different to the radio.
We run mostly talk and there are vast amounts of talk programming that’s FAR SUPERIOR than the loud blowhards on commercial radio.
And follow the lead of Ken Norris at Friday Harbor Tiny Radio and others by doing your own talk shows and sports play by play with local teams.
And here’s something I wonder about….those licensing services that charge by the time each listener stays tuned-in could so easily cheat by having computers connect to the stream as false listeners that would run up the meter. There’s no way to investigate.
RFB says
Excellent
“And here’s something I wonder about….those licensing services that charge by the time each listener stays tuned-in could so easily cheat by having computers connect to the stream as false listeners that would run up the meter. There’s no way to investigate.”
Spot on. There are ways to cheat a stream server’s stats and make it appear that thousands are tuned in and tuned in for hours or days or even weeks and months. Imagine what kind of TLH reporting and billing to deal with from that!
Not to mention tracking each IP addresses TLH, on which particular song played at that moment, how long did they hear that song, if all of it, or when they disconnected, etc etc.
Some of those licensing services do take care of most of the dirt work, but rest assured, the more TLH you pile up, so does the monthly licensing bill and the detail chasing.
RFB