Comments on: musicFIRST Misleads Again http://www.brindlemedia.net/2010/03/performance-rights-actmusicfirstdionne_warwickria/ Coach-VoiceOver Specialist-Provocateur-Entrepreneur Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Buzz Brindle http://www.brindlemedia.net/2010/03/performance-rights-actmusicfirstdionne_warwickria/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Buzz Brindle Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:49:40 +0000 http://www.brindlemedia.net/?p=512#comment-458 The New York Times quotes NAB Joint Board Chair and Commonwealth Broadcasting CEO Steve Newberry as saying “I don’t want to be a person that is so close-minded that I won’t look for a solution. But we want to look at this so that it’s revenue-neutral for radio, but helps the record industry.” The NAB’s position is that if the other side [RIAA] has a revenue-neutral proposition, they would look at it. But NAB feels the hundreds of millions of dollars radio pays every year to songwriters and music publishers through ASCAP, BMI and SESAC are ample compensation. The New York Times quotes NAB Joint Board Chair and Commonwealth Broadcasting CEO Steve Newberry as saying “I don’t want to be a person that is so close-minded that I won’t look for a solution. But we want to look at this so that it’s revenue-neutral for radio, but helps the record industry.” The NAB’s position is that if the other side [RIAA] has a revenue-neutral proposition, they would look at it. But NAB feels the hundreds of millions of dollars radio pays every year to songwriters and music publishers through ASCAP, BMI and SESAC are ample compensation.

]]> By: Buzz Brindle http://www.brindlemedia.net/2010/03/performance-rights-actmusicfirstdionne_warwickria/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Buzz Brindle Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:29:35 +0000 http://www.brindlemedia.net/?p=512#comment-452 Guess it depends on what one considers to be "new and cutting edge music". My experience is that musicians and hard-core fans tend to be more in the early-adopter camp than most people. The latter group might consider Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga cutting edge while the early-adopters would consider them to be yesterday's news. I suspect that if one were to compare a list of the most-played artists for the most-listened-to commercial radio formats from 4 years ago with a list from today, that there would be a lot of names on today's list who weren't receiving airplay in 2006. "Corporate radio" is a term which gets tossed around a lot by the RIAA. It's the kind of rhetoric that reminds me of Fox News' use of the term "socialized health care". Most radio stations aren't owned by Wall Street-driven corporations like Clear Channel so they don't really qualify as "corporate radio". As for radio stations paying the artists, they already do...with FREE advertising for both the artists' music and their brands. Guess it depends on what one considers to be “new and cutting edge music”. My experience is that musicians and hard-core fans tend to be more in the early-adopter camp than most people. The latter group might consider Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga cutting edge while the early-adopters would consider them to be yesterday’s news.

I suspect that if one were to compare a list of the most-played artists for the most-listened-to commercial radio formats from 4 years ago with a list from today, that there would be a lot of names on today’s list who weren’t receiving airplay in 2006.

“Corporate radio” is a term which gets tossed around a lot by the RIAA. It’s the kind of rhetoric that reminds me of Fox News’ use of the term “socialized health care”. Most radio stations aren’t owned by Wall Street-driven corporations like Clear Channel so they don’t really qualify as “corporate radio”.

As for radio stations paying the artists, they already do…with FREE advertising for both the artists’ music and their brands.

]]> By: Dartmouth http://www.brindlemedia.net/2010/03/performance-rights-actmusicfirstdionne_warwickria/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Dartmouth Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:28:51 +0000 http://www.brindlemedia.net/?p=512#comment-451 "If a station is paying for songs, its budget will dictate that it choose the most cost-effective tunes which will be obvious hits by artists with established track records." Yeah, because you hear so much new and cutting edge music on corporate radio these days. Just pay the people who are making those profits for these stations. The artists! “If a station is paying for songs, its budget will dictate that it choose the most cost-effective tunes which will be obvious hits by artists with established track records.”

Yeah, because you hear so much new and cutting edge music on corporate radio these days. Just pay the people who are making those profits for these stations. The artists!

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