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

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Ever think about how the right wing talk show hosts use music from
> liberal artists. 

No, I don't think about that.  But what I've always thought since Rush
began the trend to use bumper music was how much time is wasted each
hour.  If each bumper is 10 seconds and there are 6 spot breaks per
hour plus 30 seconds of theme music, that 1.5 minutes wasted out of
each hour.  That doesn't sound like a lot, but considering that a
given talkshow might have 35 minutes of actual program time (don't
forget the hourly news, the traffic, and weather), that 1.5 minutes is
4% of the program for just music.