Re: Clear Channel ends streaming broadcasts ... please explain

["tony schinella" <radiotony@attbi.com>]

Frankly Sid, if your stations or network have already paid the performance
royalty as stations, then I would agree with you. Your company isn't
stealing anything - you have already paid the fee! That is what so amazes me
about this. It would be another thing if 'AAF [or whatever station] was
playing music without paying the fee.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sid Schweiger" <sid@wrko.com>
To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: Clear Channel ends streaming broadcasts ... please explain


> >>The copyright industry has spent much of the past ten years trying to
create legal and technological roadblocks to solve their PR problems...Every
further step the music industry takes in this direction only worsens its
already abysmal PR, particularly among the audiences who are most likely to
pirate music in the first place.<<
>
> Absolutely right on target.  If we broadcasters treated our consumers
(listeners and advertisers) as the enemy the same way the RIAA and Hollywood
do, we'd be out of business in short order.  I, for one, do not appreciate
the assumption that I am a criminal, out to steal someone else's work.
>
> Sid Schweiger
> MIS Manager, Entercom Boston LLC
> WAAF-WEEI-WQSX-WRKO-WVEI
>