<![CDATA[Musicians To Radio Broadcasters: "Clearly, We're Not Wealthy Enough" - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Musicians To Radio Broadcasters: "Clearly, We're Not Wealthy Enough" - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:45:05 EDT Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:45:05 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/controversy/musicians-to-radio-broadcasters-clearly-were-not-wealthy-enough-268933.php <![CDATA[Musicians To Radio Broadcasters: "Clearly, We're Not Wealthy Enough"]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/controversy/musicians-to-radio-broadcasters-clearly-were-not-wealthy-enough-268933.php#c1673537 @MidwestProduct:

i would love to think you're right, but, like roaches surviving in the shadow of a nuclear winter, i'm sure the reality will be much less desirable for real fans of music.

call me a pessimist, but....no, that's it. just call me a pessimist.

i share noamjamski's sentiment...nothing is "unsinkable".

hypnotyza

]]> 33:268933:c1673537 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:45:05 EDT <![CDATA[Musicians To Radio Broadcasters: "Clearly, We're Not Wealthy Enough"]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/controversy/musicians-to-radio-broadcasters-clearly-were-not-wealthy-enough-268933.php#c1672491 Wouldn't this be essentially the greatest thing that ever happened to music on the radio? At least in theory, the most expensive songs royalty-wise would be the top-40 garbage that pollutes the airwaves of essentially every city. Since smaller labels and independent artists would be free to cheapen or waive entirely their royalties, there might actually be some decent music once in a while, right? Crappy stations that play crappy Christina Aguilera songs would be punished financially, while stations that don't play those songs will be fine. Win-win, says I.

MidwestProduct

]]> 33:268933:c1672491 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:47:35 EDT <![CDATA[Musicians To Radio Broadcasters: "Clearly, We're Not Wealthy Enough"]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/controversy/musicians-to-radio-broadcasters-clearly-were-not-wealthy-enough-268933.php#c1666651 Eh. A performance royalty exists in every other country that has widespread terrestrial radio. I'm not sure why it shouldn't here. The whole "promotional value" argument for sparing mainstream radio is pretty moot at this point. Sure, Hot 97 helps sell a lot of T-Pain records. A whopping 171,000. Netradio, podcasts and blogs are crushing those numbers with long tail sales.

binaryan

]]> 33:268933:c1666651 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:05:43 EDT <![CDATA[Musicians To Radio Broadcasters: "Clearly, We're Not Wealthy Enough"]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/controversy/musicians-to-radio-broadcasters-clearly-were-not-wealthy-enough-268933.php#c1666309 How many college radio stations could still go on by not playing ASCAP or BMI published material? That's a lot of sifting of the music libraries to go through, but I imagine some stations have been pondering that thought.

On the other end of the spectrum, I never thought that I would actually want to get behind ClearChannel on anything, but if they do plan to fight this, I'll have to shamefully hold my head down and go "um yay ClearChannel fight fight...fight"

mackro

]]> 33:268933:c1666309 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:10:06 EDT <![CDATA[Musicians To Radio Broadcasters: "Clearly, We're Not Wealthy Enough"]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/controversy/musicians-to-radio-broadcasters-clearly-were-not-wealthy-enough-268933.php#c1665750 And the band played on as the Titanic sank.

noamjamski

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