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This Could Change U.S. Music Radio Stations Forever
It's called the "Fair Play Fair Pay Act" and while it doesn't apply in Canada, it would allow record labels down south to pull their music from any radio station or station group in the event of a dispute over payment. You can only imagine what will happen to American outlets with music formats if it passes.
"That means hits by Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele or Miranda Lambert would be taken down if their record labels choose to do so...Broadcast companies have argued that there is substantial promotional value when they play an artist's songs, talk about their upcoming album releases and nearby concert performances...[The] bill gives record labels the right to decide whether the promotional value outweighs the fact they don't get paid."
With the greed endemic on both sides, you can already see where this might end up...
Proposal would let labels pull music off radio
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Easy to deal with. Drop ALL of their product...new and old. No exceptions. All of it...just Gone...from every radio station to be found under the corporate broadcast umbrella. Only one thing worse than corporate radio. Record companies. They've ALWAYS been pure, unadulterated scum.
There's FAR better stuff to be found and played. Tell 'em to 'Go pee up a rope'.
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T'would be the BEST thing to happen to radio in about 4 1/2 decades.
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No problem. Just fill the air time with Payola. lol
RadioWiz & RadioQuiz are NOT the same person.
RadioWiz & THE Wiz are NOT the same person.
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But if you think about it, this IS sort of a reverse payola.
In the 50s, record companies would surreptitiously pay disc jockeys to play their music. In this scenario, it's the stations that would have to pay the record makers to get their songs on the radio. I haven't seen the proposal, which I'm sure is full of completely unintelligible legal gobbledygook, but if there are no provisions to control cost demands, then the industry could be in trouble.
We all know record companies don't have the best track record when it comes to treating consumers fairly (i.e. in the old days, selling you an album filled with dreck to get the one good song you wanted) and there's no reason to believe they've changed their ways all these years later.
Worse yet, there would seem to be nothing in the proposed law to prevent a big company from pulling ALL its artists. In the case of a Sony Music or a Warner Bros. type label, that could potentially be hundreds and hundreds of artists.
I know a lot of Canadians don't pay attention to the U.S. satellite industry, but this sounds a lot like the rules for carrying major networks, which have led to endless blackouts - some lasting months - especially on providers like DISH Network. CBS tends to be the worst offender, pulling its signals off that system and surprise! almost always a few days before the Super Bowl when they have the rights to it.
It forces DISH's notorious cheapskate exec Charlie Ergen to make the choice of giving into the demand for higher retransmission rates or losing customers over the blackout while raising fees for subscribers.
This is a battle that can only hurt radio down south. And as much as I don't have a lot of sympathy for the Cumulus or the Entercoms of the world, I think it will cost a lot of jobs and I hope they figure out a way to prevent that from happening.
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A bit of clarity on this from an article on Pollstar:
The Fair Play Fair Pay Act’s plan is essentially to mandate that radio stations pay artists for spins the same way they do songwriters and publishers, capping royalty payouts at $500 for stations with less than $1 million in revenue, at $100 for public/community radio payouts, and to keep music used for religious/incidental purposes free.
So at least they can't completely gouge everyone. But even at those rates, it adds up quickly.
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Happy Capitalism
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RadioActive wrote:
In the 50s, record companies would surreptitiously pay disc jockeys to play their music
Yeah. Good thing pay-for-play has been, uh, absent from broadcasting since then...
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No spins no sales to the majority. Don't pay them. Do they send 'you' a royalty cheque for all of the money they make from sales? NO!!! Do tey thank you with a cheque for the free promotion for concerts? NO!!!
80% of these so-called 'top' 30/40 'artists' aren't worth a plug nickel to begin with. Don't let these crap-covered tails wag the dog.
EFF 'em.
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This is a stupid argument that comes up periodically.
Radio and the music business always have had a symbiotic relationship.
We play your product, you get the benefit of exposing it for free to your customers.
Payola changed that.
And pay for play still is a big part of corporate radio today.
When you throw paid streaming and downloads into the mix, it changes it slightly but a lot of people still get their first exposure to new product on radio.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.