New Shoutcast Station Broadcasting Vintage Airchecks 24/7

[CTListener]

Compressing was not done for that reason.
Program directors did not want to sit through full songs when listening to resumé tapes.
A really good jock could lift a needle and drop it near the end of the record without ever stopping.

Right. But a streamer with unscoped airchecks on his hands, as the guy behind this stream seems to have, has to decide whether he wants (or needs) to scope them retroactively to keep the royalty wolf away from the door.

 

[stevations]

Speaking of the royalty wolf, can we talk about this? Is this the proper topic to do so? From what I hear, the articles in newspapers and when I read Billboard magazine in the 80s is that ASCAP and BMI are as bad or worse than the IRS. They put people in jail for years if the got caught selling tapes they recorded from albums and sold at flea markets. They sneak around bars and restuarant while pretending to be customers but are really listening to the music, estimating the square footage, counting the number of speakers and estimating the wattage of sound systems while tallying a royalties bill to bar and restaurant owners. The owner gets a bill in the mail but how the amount is calculated is kept a secret. Bar owners and restaurant owners could modify what they do to get a cheaper bill but not knowing how it is calculated keeps them in the dark. An internet site playing music is probably not making any money so I wonder if you wanted to pay ASCAP BMI and run a web site how would this be done and how much it would cost? Run the site and wait to get a letter from ASCAP BMI lawyers? Also, isn't Paul Williams the nice meek guy who sang and wrote nice soft pop songs from the 70s the head of these seemingly unfair organizations? I know artists deserve some money for their creativity but it seems unfair. (who said life is fair anyway?) So I think the people complaining about web sites not running unscoped airchecks are a bit naive. I estimate 95 percent of the public never heard of ASCAP BMI and think playing music created by others even in a business enviorment is completely free. I have a similar complaint about knowing what is under public domain and what is not, there seems to be a cloud preventing people from knowing the facts.

 

[wadio]

I assume it still does. The Red Sox radio network comes out of its between-innings breaks with snippets of classic rock tunes that fade out as the announcers return.

Are those games streamed? The blackout applies only to Internet, not broadcast radio.

Compressing was not done for that reason.
Program directors did not want to sit through full songs when listening to resumé tapes.
A really good jock could lift a needle and drop it near the end of the record without ever stopping.

I think the real reason is that station "skimmers" were designed to record only while the DJ's mic was open ... to save tape!

 

[CTListener]

I assume it still does. The Red Sox radio network comes out of its between-innings breaks with snippets of classic rock tunes that fade out as the announcers return.

Are those games streamed? The blackout applies only to Internet, not broadcast radio.

They are streamed on a subscription basis by mlb.tv, the "new media" arm of Major League Baseball. The flagships and their affiliates are prohibited from streaming the games by MLB. Does that make a difference? And yes, you do hear the rock snippets on the subscription streams, as well as on Sirius XM satellite radio, which also streams the games online to its subscribers -- well, only the XM subscribers; Sirius subscriber can't get MLB play-by-play under the terms of the original contract signed by the now-merged XM. Wanna be a snitch and turn MLB and Sirius XM in?