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Philly's Internet Radio Goes Silent

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Just skimming my Internet radio bookmarks and I'm finding that certain stations are completely quiet, and others are looping messages in support of this protest:

Internet Radio Day of Silence

WMMR has a rather lengthy announcement by Pierre Robert looping: listen

And WMGK, another Greater Media station, is looping what sounds like a generic PSA: listen

Radio 104.5, however, continues to simulcast it's programming without interruption: listen

WYSP appears to be still streaming (apparently not as concerned as a full-time music station): listen

Another CBS station, WOGL, is still pumping out the oldies online: listen

As well as Radio One's 100.3 the Beat: listen

But Y-Rock on XPN are looping messages from Josh T. Landow: listen



...all in all, an interesting (but not unexpected) array of reactions from local broadcasters. What are your favorite streams doing on today's Day of Silence? How are they getting listeners involved? Are there any mentions being made on the terrestrial broadcasts?
 
Unfortunate timing for the Internet broadcasters to do this today because of the impending vote for cloture for the Immigration bill being debated in the Senate.
Loss for radio fans, because while we all care about the Internet CRB royalties issue, the whole of the country has more at stake in the Immigration issue.
 
National Day of Silence for Webcasters

Across the U.S. today, thousands of internet radio stations are observing a national Day of Silence to protest new webcasting rates set by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board. These new rates, which will go into effect on July 15 (and are retroactive to January 1, 2006), will drastically increase the royalties webcasters must pay to SoundExchange, an offshoot of the RIAA responsible for distributing this money to artists.

WFMU believes in compensating artists. We currently pay webcasting royalties to SoundExchange and will continue to do so, but we are protesting the new rate scheme for a number of reasons:

1. Under the new rates, non-commercial webcasters only get a break on the commercial royalty rate if they maintain small listenership numbers. In order to afford the astronomical new rates, WFMU may have to cap online listenership on our streams, limiting the exposure we give to independent artists by blocking our accessibility to music fans.

2. SoundExchange has not been dutifully distributing webcasting royalties to musicians, claiming on their website that they are unable to locate thousands of artists including Kraftwerk, The Replacements, Pizzicato Five, The Muffs, and even Warren G!

Instead of webcasting silence today, WFMU has decided to boycott all music that is registered with the RIAA and/or SoundExchange. Today, you will hear songs from live performances on WFMU, material from the public domain, orphaned works, music from bands and record labels that have signed a waiver releasing WFMU from SoundExchange's unreasonable royalty scheme, and music from artists that SoundExchange has neglected to pay.

We hope that this sends the message that WFMU is fully capable of airing great music that falls outside of the RIAA and SoundExchange's control.

If you would like to protest the new webcasting royalty rates, please call or write to your Representatives and Senators before July 15, and tell them to support the Internet Radio Equality Act (S. 1353 and HR. 2060). Visit SaveNetRadio.org for more information, including a quick way to look up contact info for your elected officials.
 
I find it interesting that the WRDV stream was working on Tuesday. The WRDV stream is associated with live365 and, thus, I expected it to be off the air on Tuesday. But this stream was working on Tuesday (at least when launched from WRDV's website).
 
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