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Playing national commercials over internet stream?

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RadioWitten

We have radio stations here in Tucson that play the entire broadcast over their internet streams. National syndicated shows, their national spots and local spots as well. I thought somewhere years back a bunch of station got hammered about this and had to pay fines to the voice over people who did the national spots. Is this still correct? And doesn't the station have to remove the commercials or play music over them on the internet stream?
We have a station in Tucson AZ. Formerly KJLL 1330 South Tucson, but is now KWFM 1330 AM that plays everything including national and local. They've been doing it for over 5 years.

Just curious.
 
Maybe they had web distribution written into their contract.

A lot of stations stream national hosts, so I doubt if it's an issue.
 
I've noticed that the Internet streams of the HD2+ broadcasts are more prone to empty air during national spots than national shows aired on the main freq. In fact, this dead air was one of my big complaints about listening to "HD" radio over the Internet.
 
The issue is between AFTRA and the Ad Agencies and the fees that AFTRA wants for spots on the web. Yes, they are supposed to be blocked in some way (dead air, music, substitute spots, etc) and the net stream version of the station should not sound like the broadcast version. Not really about radio, but radio is caught in the middle of the disagreement.
 
I've just been talking with alot of ad agencies, and this issue keep popping up. And with a huge political season coming I wanted to know.
 
In my opinion, until the web version of the radio station is the same as the broadcast version, the internet will always be a poor step child populated by dollar a holler spots!
 
OC3 said:
In my opinion, until the web version of the radio station is the same as the broadcast version, the internet will always be a poor step child populated by dollar a holler spots!
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I do know when I listen to WCBS-AM or KCBS-FM San Francisco on Radio.com Allstate, Netflix, Progressive insurance and CBS owned apps tend pre-empt the local ads their OTA's have. I think this has something to do with the agreements between CBS and the Advertisers to only air on their OTA's.
 
I think it depends on how the station streams. Some stations just hook a radio up to an old computer and use Windows Media Encoder to stream. It probably isn't kosher with some ad agencies, but it does happen quite a bit.
 
OC3 said:
The issue is between AFTRA and the Ad Agencies and the fees that AFTRA wants for spots on the web. Yes, they are supposed to be blocked in some way (dead air, music, substitute spots, etc) and the net stream version of the station should not sound like the broadcast version. Not really about radio, but radio is caught in the middle of the disagreement.
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I wonder if this policy will continue with SAG-AFTRA.
 
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