RE: Rumors re: Internet streaming

["Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>]

Larry A. Lovering wrote:
>What does the distribution media have to do with it?  Do stations 
>who stream charge more for ads with a global reach? Maybe the 
>industry should consider the rate plans of commercial shortwave >stations.  And how did AFTRA come up with this, how do they prove >listenership over the Web?
>-Larry

>>Mark Shneyder said:
>> > I don't see how a wacky compensation system for an ad created
>> > for one specific medium and then re-distributed via a completely
>> > different medium
>>

Garrett Wollman replied:
>> What's ``wacky'', to use your word, is the notion that free 
>> broadcast via electromagnetic radiation is somehow a different 
>> medium from free broadcast via wire.  

Can AFTRA ask more $$ for the commercials heard by commuters
in the tunnels (Callahan, Sumner & South Station) because 
they are "re-distributed" via the tunnel antenna systems?

Roger Kirk
rogerkirk@ttlc.net