Re: How does royalty work for music played on radio?

Ever think about how the right wing talk show hosts use music from
liberal artists. Chrissy Hind / Rush Limbaugh comes to mind. Weiner
and Metalica or Hendrix. Maybe these right wingers are closet
liberals, more than happy to fund the left wing cause with music
royalties.

Now imagine if the right wingers wanted conservative musicians to do
the bumpers. That would leave us with: Ted Nugent, Toby PO'd Keith,
and Charlie Daniels. A pretty lame group of musicians IMHO.
 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Kaye) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "David Eduardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > That seems a bit exaggerated. Music licence fees seldom exceed a range of
> > 2.8% to 3% of staiton gross billings.
> 
> I've seen total royalties amount to as much as 10% at one station in
> the past (KWUN Concord), which caused the owner no end of
> hair-tearing.  This was some years ago, so things may have been
> adjusted or I was looking a peculiar situation.
> 
> > Things that would probably be more at all but the biggest stations:
> > utilities, rent, agency commissions, sales expenses other than commisssions,
> > ratings services, insurance (including liability or self-insurance limits),
> > promotion, advertising, etc.
> 
> Yeah, I guess I'm a bit rash.  Let's say in the top 5?  
> 
> > Wrong. Talk staitons usually have a licence that covers incidental use of
> > music, both in commercials and in bumpers or even in interviews. The length
> > of the sample is not relevant.
> 
> The station I worked at at the time, KKEY Portland, did not pay any
> music license fees at all.  For the local spots they used an old
> royalty-free production music library (CRC or Tanner maybe?).  This
> was where I got the 60 seconds or less concept.  They literally carted
> the theme music at :50 or :55 (I forget) and told me it was to get
> around license fees.
> 
> I have no doubt that larger stations such as KGO get blanket licenses
> covering all this stuff.  But the smaller guys?  I have a feeling such
> things exist today.
> 
> > These forms are done as a dump of computer music scheduling logs now for
> > music stations, and I have never seen a talk station itemize (although I
> > guess they should). They just have the limited license.
> 
> Well yes, it's all dumped today, but I know that they did make the
> differentiation between songs used as themes and other songs.  I don't
> know why they would change that, since using a song as a theme would
> skew its play significantly, making the license logs an invalid
> sampling of the whole of the industry.