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

"David Kaye"  wrote
> 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 had always understood that the Pepper-Tanner packages were roylalty free;
but, using stingers from other works were not. I believe that there were a
couple of different companies that sold jingle packages (similar to the
Pepper-Tanner packages) where license fees had to be paid.  But that was
some time ago and things might be different now. I know that Pepper-Tanner
has ceased to be.
-- 
SoCal Tom