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98.1 WOGL Street Corner Sunday Aircheck...

Tommy is one of the good guys still in the oldies business. In my opinion, he and Holiday were always included in the best oldies DJ's list locally, along with the legendary Hy Lit and Joe Niagra. I miss their record "hops" that were a weekend staple for me until about 1998, when they stopped. Bob Pantano kept his going after the others stopped. Many good times to go with the good music!
 
In 2005 he still referred to his 'Treasure Chest of Oldies" now just his 'Treasure Chest'. I'm glad career wise Tommy McCarthy became MD of WOGL but I did enjoy when he was a regular on-air personality better back on WPGR, WIOQ, & WOGL-AM & FM. Nobody else has a 'top 10 favorites' song list with as many songs in it (an ever expanding list).

Still confused on the 'aircheck' rights issue. By what Sam Lit posted recently this clip is forever the property of someone - WOGL, Tommy McCarthy? and shouldn't be posted by anyone but the owner - is the rule basically that it's ok to post airchecks as long as someone doesn't challenge ownership? But if you don't know who owns it then you are in danger of legal action or would you just get asked/warned to remove it?
 
The copyright issues will make your head explode. To be precise, there are copyrights in all of the songs (the compositions themselves), and all of the performances of those compositions, usually held by different people, plus a copyright in Tommy's breaks, and, finally, maybe a "compilation copyright" in how it was all assembled.

On the air, the first is covered by a blanket music license and the second is exempt (but not on streaming). The third and fourth are not problems, because they are owned by the station or the DJ.

Technically, posting an aircheck on the web violates all four copyright interests, unless it falls within "fair use" (for critical, commentary or other educational purposes, which it probably doesn't), but fortunately, no one seems to care a whole lot.

The question is best left unasked. >boom< (sound of head exploding).

Bill
 
I hear you Bill... confusing enough just to keep the boxes of tapes in the basement to listen to just for my own amusement. Strangely speaking of airchecks, I found a short tape I made of a legendary Philadelphia disk jockey on a station in a nearby state capital on July 4, 1980 playing old 1967 Dr. Don Rose airchecks on the air & commenting on them - which is very surreal, considering Don Rose's popularity helped kill off the ratings of station where the other person had worked.
 
It seems that no one in the business cares much about the copyright on their platter chatter. Hell, I'd be flattered if someone wanted to listen to mine. And I guess the music licensing companies have bigger fish to fry, particularly when no one is making any money from the airchecks.

The music licensing issue is solvable though; ReelRadio.com has ASCAP, BMI and SESAC music licenses so they can legally stream the music that's on the the airchecks in between the DJ breaks.

Bill
 
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