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15 Mar
WSOE uses webcasting to reach wider audience
The Pendulum article discusses the webcasting or WSOE, but none of the headaches that come with the addition of the new audience, nor any discussion of the additional costs or how these costs are covered.
READ MORE15 Mar
Gift or solicitation?
College students are given cameras in order to provide news. Is this a gift or a request for free content? Read the story from AP.
READ MORE6 Mar
College Radio Survival News 3-6-2009
CBI considers the developments concerning webcasting and the Performance Rights act to be critical to the survival of radio and web stations at educational institions. There is a lot happening that you need to be aware of so that you can support the survival of your station. 1. The performance rights act, as proposed by […]
READ MORE26 Feb
South Dakota newspaper story examines webcasting at area college stations
The Argus Leader newspaper in Sioux Falls, SD reports on the area college stations in “Rules complicate webcasting efforts” by Bryann Becker. “Noncommercial broadcasting stations such as college radio already pay copyright fees for musical works to three different national organizations, according to College Broadcasters Inc. A separate set of webcasting fees to cover the […]
READ MORE21 Feb
WDBM (88.9-FM): 20 years of Impact
WDBM’s history is discussed an article as the station celebrates a birthday. The article offers some interesting perspectives on college radio.
READ MORE21 Feb
KTRU requests support for blanket tax
KTRU, the student radio station at Rice University is requesting an increase in the “blanket tax” collected by the University. The blanket tax is a fee collected by the University and forwarded directly to the student organization. The current student blanket tax is $5.50 per student. KTRU is asking the student body to vote to […]
READ MORE21 Feb
Perfomance Rights Act & Webcasting Update
As posted a few days ago, both the House and Senate saw the introduction of the Performance Rights Act, again after failing to come to a vote in the 110th Congress. The bill would require FCC licensed non-commercial stations to pay an annual fee of $1000 and subject them to new recordkeeping regulations, likely similar […]
READ MORE5 Feb
New Fees Proposed for ALL Licensed Broadcasters
Both the House and the Senate have seen the introduction of new legislation that would impose a new fee on all broadcasters that play copyrighted sound recordings. The new fees are in addition to the fees already paid to ASCAP, SESAC and BMI for the musical works (for the underlying compositions). It appears that the […]
READ MORE30 Jan
Webcasting Developments 2009
On December 30, 2008, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking . The notice contained at least three substantial changes to the current recordkeeping procedures used college and high school webcasters that do not pay any more than the minimum fee to SoundExchange. One of these changes include a switch from […]
READ MORE22 Jan
Lake Forest Internet College TV
According to the The Stentor, an initiative at Lake Forest College will result in a new campus TV station that will run exclusively over the Internet. It appears from the article that programming will initially be comprised of movies via a contract with Swank. The movies could be supplemented with student programming. The article mentions […]
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