Radio Chain to Cut Ties to Promoters Paid by Labels
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Infinity Broadcasting, one of the nation&#39;s largest radio chains, said yesterday that it planned to sever its relationships with independent record promoters, distancing itself from a practice that critics have likened to bribes.
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WASHINGTON  - Independent recording artists will get a clearer shot at the airwaves under a deal cut by the big radio station groups and indie labels as part of the federal payola investigation.
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Promoters pay radio stations annual fees for advance copies of playlists and bill record companies for each new song played, running up a tab that costs the industry tens of millions of dollars annually.
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Large and small U.S. webcasters turned off the music today to protest planned royalty rate increases that small Net Radio station owners say could put them out of business.
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Record labels are demanding such a large cut from online music sales that several of existing online music stores will eventually be forced to go under, The Independent cautions today.
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Web radio broadcasters go off air in protest at plans to hike royalty payments when music is played online.
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Record labels don't trust us with their music. They need to retune that thinking
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Three of the Big Four music labels have reached licensing agreements to provide their music to the soon-to-launch Peer Impact network, a peer-to-peer service that enables legal music file-sharing.
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WASHINGTON  --  Exasperated listeners weary of hearing the same songs over and over on the radio may have something to cheer about in a pair of innovative deals that could shake up the music playlists of some of the nation's largest radio-station chains.
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The lone holdout among the big four music labels caved to pressure from the rest of the industry and will begin to sell tracks free from the restrictive technology.
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There may be a compromise in the works between music webcasters and a group that represents performers and record companies over an upcoming rate increase for playing music over Internet radio.
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The radio industry has agreed to pay &#36;1.7 billion over six years to a group that doles out royalties to songwriters under an agreement in which stations will now pay a set fee for music, rather than a percentage of yearly revenue.
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A Washington copyright panel that more than doubled fees U.S. Internet radio stations must pay for music is being called the industry's possible executioner.
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Radio broadcasters are considering  technology and business models that may soon allow listeners to  click, listen and buy the tunes they hear on their favorite  radio stations.
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Radio microphones used in the entertainment industry could be under threat from plans to sell off airwaves.
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The Future of Music Coalition, working to end payola so independent labels get the same radio play as the majors, announce the FCC and broadcasters agree to its rules. In Listening Post.
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By John Dunbar  WASHINGTON - Radio listeners weary of hearing the same songs over and  over might have something to cheer about: Broadcasters have tentatively  agreed to anti-payola settlements that could shake up music play-lists at  some of the nation's largest radio chains.