That sounds familiar, although I'd expect it was a problem here too. The music industry wants people to BUY music from them, not record it off the radio. The DMCA is filled with language that was designed to prevent people from recording audio from digital streams. The whole inspiration was to prevent people from getting "CD quality audio from the radio."
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Free Music, No Commercials... How's It Viable??
- Thread starter DrJerry
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That sounds familiar, although I'd expect it was a problem here too. The music industry wants people to BUY music from them, not record it off the radio. The DMCA is filled with language that was designed to prevent people from recording audio from digital streams. The whole inspiration was to prevent people from getting "CD quality audio from the radio."
Not only that, the pre-roll ads often mask the intended ads.
Yes, speaking of HD subchannels playing music without commercials... why do they? I recently disovered a good commercial-free classic rock HD subchannel. So now it's mostly what I listen to when driving around. How is that good for commercial stations which are already struggling to attract and retain listeners?
Asheville NC has an oldies HD station with a translator. At first the only commercials I heard were classic commercials that would have aired when the songs were popular, but I have heard a few actual commercials in more recent years.
It used to be better in my opinion, playing even Johnny Mathis and Nat King Cole, but there seemed to be more louder 70s music this year when I listened. Still not as bad as Good Time Oldies which ventures into the 80s and can be quite loud.
This happened when I was working in a vintage record shop. I found in the new stock a near mint A&M promo of Amy Grant's Unguarded LP, originally sent to a local radio station. There were three large jewelry bags of said controlled powdery substance that that neatly fell out of the sleeve. Flattened to fit neatly in the sleeve.Except for that one episode of WKRP In Cincinnati where it was a controlled powdery substance instead ...
Ep, 14 - Welcome Home Johnny
January 23, 2015 Writer: Blake Hunter Director: Asaad Kelada Original Air Date: February 26, 1979 This is a strange episode to be the ...wkrp-relived.blogspot.com
Some iHeart channels are commercial-free. They include Classic American Top 40 (Casey Kasem years, not sure of the Ryan Seacrest years) and I think the iHeart Cafe is also commercial free. Some weekends the Yacht Rock channel is commercial free.
As said above, I don't know how iHeart makes any money from these channels, other than the commercial we sometimes must watch when first starting the channel.
As said above, I don't know how iHeart makes any money from these channels, other than the commercial we sometimes must watch when first starting the channel.
Just turn your hearing aid volume down 😄
How do you expect them to pay royalty fees like from Sound Exchange if they don't sell commercials or charge a subscription? Just eat the expense?
Doesn't sound like a very good business model to me.
You mean like charge a subscription fee or sell ads?