Re: 'bos Custom Radio Service

["Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 05:05 PM 3/1/2002 -0500, TC Cheever wrote:
>The "WBOS Custom Radio Service" is an application that plays streaming 
>audio over the 'Net. It does not, however, play the station's signal-- so 
>you're not actually listening to WBOS, you're listening to music that fits 
>their format & is from their playlist, on an application branded with 
>their logo. Then you can click on artists, titles, etc. to buy the albums, 
>or you can rate the songs so that they never play again or rotate more 
>heavily in your own playlist, etc. A college friend of mine who used to do 
>mornings in Denver is now working for XACT Radio, the company that 
>provides this service--

This is likely due to the US Copyright Office's recent decision that makes 
it all but impossible for radio and internet-only stations to 
webcast.   See details at www.kurthanson.com/index.asp & 
www.ruf.rice.edu/~willr/cb/sos

Well, the decision was probably the kicker on what was probably a 
money-losing venture.  Virtually no radio station, save the really small 
and some public radio outlets, are showing any real benefit from their 
webcasts.  And "benefit" does not necessary directly mean "money" 
either.   Webcasting a tough sell, really, and there's only a few targeted 
areas where it really works well financially.


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