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(05/02/2002) Radio Silence is Deafening
"Mayday!," the webcasters day of protest yesterday was heard across America as Internet radio voluntarily shut down streams to protest CARP royalty rate proposal.
Kevin Barrett, Program Director at KABZ FM "The Buzz" in Little Rock told Radio Ink in an email, "Today 103-7 The Buzz observed Internet radio streaming silence, even though as an FM Talk Station we are not directly affected as are our colleagues at broadcast music stations, and Internet only webcasters.
"The RIAA is one of the most power lobbies in America, no doubt their goal is for the major record companies to control music on demand portals on the Internet. If it stands, the proposed regulations will in effect hurt the people who are championing the very bands and artists that rarely see the light of day on commercial radio," Barrett said.
"By erecting this mammoth toll gate for web radio streamers, they will terminate the last staging area left for experimentation, consumer choice, & just possibly the next great format concept."
According to MeasureCast, two stations streaming the Steve Wolf talk show that was run by many music webcasters in lieu of their music programming, saw a slight downturn in their streaming numbers compared with the figures for several previous Wednesdays. The total time spent listening (TTSL) for 3WK and RadioIO.com for yesterday and the previous three Wednesday.
Steve Wolf is WOLF FM founder and host of yesterday's "Emergency Webcasting System" talk show. The 12-hour marathon talk show hosted by WOLF FM's Steve Wolf was carried by more than a dozen major independent webcasters.
SomaFM ran the simulcast on 9 of our 10 channels, with one going offline doe to difficulties with the simulcast on it," SomaFM's Rusty Hodge told Radio Ink. "I just went through our logs, and we had 11,950 Total Listener Hours, with an average of 995 listeners during the 12 hour period. I didn't track unique listeners."
Hodge notes that according to shoutcast SomaFM stations are doing well over one million listener hours a month.
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