Major Webcasters to face billions in new fees?
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Blog: New letter to Congress from Yahoo, RealNetworks, Pandora and Live365 execs urges politicos to reconsider new rules they argue would require not only higher royalty rates on songs, but more than $1 billion in annual "administrative" fees.
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Plans for municipal Wi-Fi in a dozen cities currently in negotiations with EarthLink may be in jeopardy as the company is imposing new demands on how the networks are to be paid for.
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Broadband access charges are still too high and need to be slashed further to bring them in line with other nations, the UK&#39;s media and telecoms regulator says.
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Business & money: The regulator must soon decide who will pay to keep the internet up to speed.
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Blog: The latest front in Webcasters' protest of elevated royalty fees is a "day of silence," and some larger stations are expected to participate.
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Blog: Barring a last-minute industry compromise on changes, new royalty rates that Internet radio operators argue could cripple their services are slated to kick in Sunday.
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  May 26--Stung by the backlash against increased royalties charged to  Internet broadcasters, the music industry this week offered to give small  online broadcasters a break.
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Our story on Tuesday regarding the proposed Internet streaming royalty fees generated a lot of buzz in the streaming radio community, which prompted prominent members of that industry to share with us some more up-to-date statistics. BetaNews is now able to make more accurate projections about what major and minor streaming radio providers are likely to pay.
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The cost of a television licence fee is likely to go up in line with inflation, government sources have revealed.
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It looks grim for webcasters -- the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board announces retroactive rates, endorsing a per-play proposal by RIAA-associated SoundExchange. In Listening Post.
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US iPlayer in the works Just as the BBC is slashing jobs at home, its commercial tentacle is ramping up efforts to squeeze money from its programming and web content abroad.â¦
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$2,500 limit on multi-stream stations Music industry taxman SoundExchange is offering a new deal to internet radio broadcasters who say upcoming royalty hikes will kill online broadcasting.â¦
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Internet radio's temporary reprieve from a potentially fatal royalty rate hike offers an opportunity for a reasoned look at the situation. Comentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Largest US cable operators may launch joint bid that could be worth $17 billion: newspaper report. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Comcast Corp.
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By Sanford Nowlin, San Antonio Express-News  Dec. 8--Even though consumers have more choices than ever for video  programming, cable and satellite TV, fees are expected to go up again in 2007.
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Consumer spending on Internet video streams and movie downloads will expand fortyfold to about $4.1 billion by 2011 as technology emerges to connect television sets to the Web, according to a study. Spending will rise from about $112 million last year, according to the Adams Media Research study.
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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.