Klarinet Archive - Posting 000965.txt from 2002/11

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Music for Dogs
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:09:06 -0500

> From: Bill Wright [mailto:Bi6W@-----.net]
>
> Does a radio station, public or otherwise, pay less in royalties (or
> whatever the correct term is) if they play only a subset of all possible
> music? such as playing only classical recordings?

No. The agencies which collect the payments re-distribute the money based
upon sampling the broadcasts. Which means that since many stations play a
top-40 rotation (of some particular genre) the monies are skewed toward
popular music.

Unless a broadcaster makes special arrangements with a record company, in
which case both parties come to an agreement on the amount of payment.

I found out all about this a couple of years back when I started a
Webcasting site.

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