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WDLW tribute

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johnbasalla

06/10/2025. This morning, early in the 7:00 a.m. hour, WDLW paid tribute to the passing of Sylvester Stewart (aka: Sly Stone) of Sly and The Family Stone by playing a few of their recordings back-to-back. Good job.
 
Seems like tributes for artists are still decently common, mainly on locally programmed or hosted stations. After Toby Keith passed last year, a lot of country stations across the country paid tribute to him. WKFM, for example, did all Toby Keith on their “Drive at Five” and had listeners vote on their favorite songs from him.
 
I believe that many stations are concerned about their streams having more than the permitted number of songs by an artist in any hour. Most of us have to double check the rules before doing anything like an hour full of a single artist's songs.

Wish list: a digital streaming rule exception that allows more songs by an artist within the first several days of their death or on the day of their funeral.
 
91.3 The Summit's Brad Savage generally puts on a retrospective of an artists songs on their passing if it happens early enough in the day where they can get something together. Jill Sobule was one that the did a heck of a job with. If it happens later in the day, the next day they usually have something on air by the artist. I remember back in the 70s/80s it was a regular happening if an artist/singer/band member died, usually withing 15 minutes to half an hour after it had happened. Of course, the biggie was when Elvis passed away, His stuff got played non-stop and I even remember a few stations breaking format to play his songs.....;.but not for long. Nowadays.....hard to toss something on air right away if the show has been voice-tracked the day before. Wouldn't be surprised if the corporations start requesting singers/band members to give them a 24 hour notice if they might pass away in that time frame. Or maybe just play songs by singers that are getting up there in years just in case they do pass away so that makes the station look hip and happening and on top of things.
 
davideduardo said:
I believe that many stations are concerned about their streams having more than the permitted number of songs by an artist in any hour. Most of us have to double check the rules before doing anything like an hour full of a single artist's songs.

Wish list: a digital streaming rule exception that allows more songs by an artist within the first several days of their death or on the day of their funeral.
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Query: Who regulates radio streaming and sets these streaming rules? Is it a government agency, or copyright laws or an industry group like ASCAP or BMI? What are the penalties for violating the rules and who metes them out?

Streaming came along a little after my sell-by date!
 
davideduardo said:
I believe that many stations are concerned about their streams having more than the permitted number of songs by an artist in any hour. Most of us have to double check the rules before doing anything like an hour full of a single artist's songs.

Wish list: a digital streaming rule exception that allows more songs by an artist within the first several days of their death or on the day of their funeral.
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rock stations do "Two Fer Tuesdays"... and classic hits has "Twin Spins", or TS Weekends.

to skirt the issue with artists that have died... do two or three in a row. Won't get flagged.
 
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