Category Broadcasting News
28 May
CBI and Others File Comments Regarding Webcasting Rules
In December of 2008, the Copyright Royalty Judges (“CRJs”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“NPRM”) which contained proposals to increase the recordkeeping requirements. Specifically, the CRJs proposed that all webcasters using copyrighted music w/o releases would need to report each and every song played throughout the year, which is known as census reporting. […]
READ MORE6 May
2009 Hearst Broadcast News Championship finalists announced
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program has announced the finalists for the 2009 Broadcast News Championship in San Francisco. The Hearst Journalism Awards Program was founded in 1960 to provide support, encouragement, and assistance to journalism education at the college and university level. The program awards scholarships to students for outstanding performance in college level journalism, […]
READ MORE15 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 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 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 […]
READ MORE16 Jan
CBI and WHRB ask Copyright Royalty Board to Extend Deadline to File Comments on Expanded Webcasting Rules
Washington, DC – January 16, 2009 – College Broadcasters, Inc., (CBI) a national membership association of non-profit, student-staffed radio stations and electronic media outlets and Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co., Inc., the student-operated FM broadcast station WHRB 95.3FM, based on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, filed a joint motion for additional time to […]
READ MORE2 Jan
Utica College’s WPNR fined by FCC
Via cnyradio.com: Utica College has entered into a “Consent Decree” to settle the public file violations for the non-commercial station. Rather than being ordered to pay a fine, the decree says Utica College agrees to make a $10,000 “voluntary contribution” to the United States Treasury. The decree also stipulates that WPNR will maintain a “Compliance […]
READ MORE17 Dec
KTXT – Gone apparently w/o warning!
KTXT, the student station at Texas Tech University went silent as it was announced that “Control of the radio station’s FCC license, which is maintained by the university, is being shifted from the Student Media department to Texas Tech’s other educational radio station, KOHM-FM”, according to http://www.ktxt.net/home/, as of this writing. From reading various sources, […]
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