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From a Licensing Perspective, Which is the Least Expensive?
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Live365 says they pay all music licensing:
help.live365.com
What Licensing coverage does Live365 provide?
As part of every standard broadcast package, Live365 provides music licensing for the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom along with royalty reporting coverage. Live365 is licensed for streaming and royalty reporting in the U.S., Canada...
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I know. I like that aspect very much.
I was just wondering how much "going it alone" would cost for an AM, FM or self-hosted stream, for curiosity's sake.
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$0.00 per year.
Royalties are due on public performances and/or commercial performances. A Part 15 compliant transmission, which covers only your dwelling or automobile, and which produces no revenue, can hardly be said to fit either category.
Live365's service is both public and commercial.
Not a lawyer, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
It varies depending on the number of users your stream gets and the amount of music you play. There's a lot of paperwork too that has to be prepared monthly.
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BMI offers a license for Part 15 stations, AM or FM, for $322/year, provided the station doesn’t have over $10,000 in advertising revenue.
BMI Part 15 Licensing Form
BMI Part 15 Licensing Form
That’s just stupid. Unless the part 15 station is part of a business, such as a drive through Christmas lights display.
It should be that cheap for LPFMs though. Especially the ones run as a hobby with no advertising/underwriting.
In New England Bob Bittner owned WJIB Cambridge MA and 4 other AM stations, 1 on Cape Cod and 3 in Maine, all with FM translators. I believe all have commercial licenses but he refused to run ads, relying on listeners to fundraise. He refused to stream (cost factor?)
Bittner died last May. 4 of the 5 stations (with translators) are up for sale, but the one in Bath ME where his widow lives apparently won't be. An engineer now running the stations say they plan to stream starting in the spring, with unknown parties putting in bids for the other four.
Said to be cost effective instead of
running on the terrestrial airwaves.
Bittner died last May. 4 of the 5 stations (with translators) are up for sale, but the one in Bath ME where his widow lives apparently won't be. An engineer now running the stations say they plan to stream starting in the spring, with unknown parties putting in bids for the other four.
Said to be cost effective instead of
running on the terrestrial airwaves.
The money from selling the stations will be more than enough to pay for streaming for years
What?? You obviously haven't sold a station recently.
WJIB and W267CE just sold for $575k. That would pay for streaming for many years
But you don't have insider knowledge of what debt needed to be retired in that payment since most independent station sales don't include the new owners who will assume debts. No doubt the former owner needed to be paid out of what's left too. The thought they would parlay whatever is left over from the sale to cover streaming fees is somewhat laughable.
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