Comments on: End Of The Road For Internet Radio?

By: Leland

Leland — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:33:40 +0000

That’s awesome - I’ve never actually believed in the power of representative government until this moment.

What’s next?

By: jvk

jvk — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:19:15 +0000

Looks like the deadline has been extended…

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/07/webcasters_face_music

By: Paul Henrich

Paul Henrich — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:34:20 +0000

I know it wasn’t feasible when it WOXY.com was stand-alone, but could LALA make deals directly with labels like satellite radio providers have?

It seems like LALA has the size and backing to try something like this. The only problem with this would be that internet radio diversity would still suffer a major blow if the CRB rate increase stands.

By: bryanjay

bryanjay — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:35:55 +0000

Luckily we’re tied to lala and thanks to them we can stay on the air while the challenges continue to overturn the CRB’s ruling. But were we still a standalone operation, this definitely would have been the end of the road for us. So we’re not going off the air on Monday, but we’re also not out of the woods yet.

By: Leland

Leland — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:57:52 +0000

Of course, this a grave concern for hundreds of online broadcasts, but what does this mean for the future of WOXY?

Don’t tell me I’m gonna have to buy another going-out-of-business t-shirt.

By: rachael

rachael — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:41:11 +0000

If you’d like to share your thoughts or solutions regarding the CRB ruling, e-mail scoop@cmj.com with the subject “Internet Royalty Reactions” to be included with the statements posted on the CMJ.com (including WOXY’s own Bryan Miller.)

[Editor: And of course you’re encouraged to include your comments here at The Futurist as well.]

And for more background on how this ruling came to be, you can check out this week’s spotlight on CMJ “July 15: The Day Internet Radio Dies.”