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is this the end of radio stations streaming

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oasisrulz

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I tried to listen to a few stations today and this is what keeps coming up, it never happened before today....my favorite stations are no longer streaming on line, and are now unlistenable on the net...WHOG is one that is claiming this....This is the message on all stations discontinuing on line steaming, could Philly stations be next...


We are no longer streaming our station on line

The reason this station cannot stream is that a new SoundExchange (a consortium of record companies) music licensing agreement has jeopardized your ability to listen to all kinds of music on the internet. Excessive music royalty rates, which have nearly doubled in the last three years and continue to increase to unprecedented levels, no longer make streaming a viable option.



If you would like to see streaming on this station, call your local congressman and tell him or her that you are against record company royalty fees that restrict listening and punish those who provide the service.



Thank you.
 
I just left a very terse voice mail for Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen expressing my outrage on this matter!
He's not my Congressman, but I enjoyed mispronouncing Mr. Frelinghuysen every time I said it in the voicemail.

So, I'm assuming the other couple guys reading this thread called their Congressmen too... done and done!
Problem solved.
 
This is likely related to the reason CBS has discontinued streaming its stations (even news/talk stations) outside the United States. I've read irate posts on the Facebook pages of Big Jay Sorensen as well as the fan page of Tampa Bay's Q105.
 
I hope not!!! The only way I get my musical fix is online. Y Rock and HFS are only on HD or the net and apparently HD signals degrade much sooner than FM . Leave it to CBS to once again start a radio catastrophe.
 
If it wasn't for radio stations streaming, I wouldn't listen to radio at all. Nothing, I mean NOTHING worthwhile reaches us in Ocean County on FM - bland soft rock, Top 40, country and classic rock is all there is. We can't get a decent talk station around here either (don't get me started on NJ 101.5 - how the mighty have fallen). Honestly, I'm not sure whether I'm in favor of this or not. Part of me wants to see broadcasters (the local ones, at least) get hit because of their awful programming decisions, and perhaps some will swap terrible music for talk programming. The other part is worried about what will happen to online broadcasts. I'm leaning toward hoping this bill get defeated, but if it were to pass, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing - after all, the pathetic broadcasters would get what's coming to them as far as I'm concerned.
 
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