Forthcoming ALPB Seminar On Streaming

i shut my stream off. can't afford the licensing fees or the licensing structure used in the USA. if they just charged a small yearly / monthly flat fee for non commercial with no tlh limits or reporting requirements then i could afford it, but the structure and cost is prohibitive for my financial situation.

There is hope on the Battlefront. I am a part of a large organization not created by myself who has been fighting for Internet radio rights for hobby broadcasters. Tomorrow I have to go to a meeting by phone by the way and there will be a total of 1000 folks on a conference. The conference company is the same one I tried to use for the new radio Revolution.

I will give you some hints though think Stardome Digital Media. Also think about the fact that licensed radio stations also have an umbrella to broadcast on the internet. Now think what would happen if a media company that owns commercial radio stations where to actually meet with hobby broadcasters and come up with a reasonable compromise. Think this is all part of a fantasy I may have in my head? Will find out tomorrow after 3 p.m. in the afternoon EDT. This will go down in Radio history and my friends as I've told you before it pays to be a soldier of change.

I've told you once twice 100 times that I have been a part of many different organizations behind the scenes. So with that in mind I might know some things that I cannot actually disclose until it's about to happen. But I will tell you this there's a certain AM radio station about to be bought by a media company who is all for the hobby broadcasters. What a leap of fate that is to some of the folks that have been trying to kill any possibility for the hobby broadcaster to exist.

Some of you on this forum know exactly what I'm talking about when I talk about this meeting that's about to happen tomorrow. The people who know can't say anything but I guarantee you it's going to be a surprise move.

My sponsor and I have been in contact with each other and he's about ready to Unleash the Beast. Let's put it this way one of the big Pros may end up owing hobby broadcasters hundreds of dollars in overpayments.

I think it's kind of funny because never has this ever taken place where hobby broadcasters on the internet has ever won against these bully boys. But it takes a few people who have guts to stand firm and stand strong and indemnify hobby broadcasters who have been bullied for too long by these sharks. A song by Elvis Costello now comes to my mind radio radio, radio radio.

Let me see if I can make things a little bit clearer since a lot of people think that all I am about is going after everybody who wants you to pay for something.

My sponsor has paid dearly for my station to be on the internet. We're talking more than $80 per month pretty close to $100 some months because it goes by The Listener tuning hours. So to put that in perspective it would be the same thing as if you were to buy a Rangemaster AM transmitter every month and then give it away.

Now then my sponsor is part of a major radio organization actually more than one. We're talking companies like stardome digital media also we're talking companies such as Pro streaming dot net and he recently bought out yet another company dealing in Internet Radio.

Now him and his partners are looking at buying WKTF AM which the deal is pretty much gone through already. What this is supposed to allow is a blanket licensing deal because radio stations get a license blanket deal where they can broadcast and internet webcast at the same time.

This is where things start to become kind of ugly. Because ASCAP somehow found out and was still saying that even though they have done this that it would not cover our licensing. But the reason that Pandora didn't get their deal to go through with the FCC was because they were a foreign company in other words the owner was not part of the United States.

Back to the topic ASCAP is still threatening to sue individuals for copyright infringement. Now then my sponsor now has a major attorney going after ASCAP because they are being unfair they have been told that there was an issue with the auditing software to begin with and they have a third party company which is reading everything so that we are not charged for playing commercials which do not have any music in them.

ASCAP has been very uncooperative and with their staunch bullying techniques has forced a lot of people to drop their stations. But since I belong to my sponsors Network which again told you is some pretty big Networks I am actually able to continue doing what I do. But at the same time ASCAP is continually harassing him and anyone on his Network.

The good news is that when this is all over there will be cheaper rates and more fairness towards hobby internet broadcasters. This means you don't have to stick to Indy broadcasting only.

My sponsor loves album Rock and this is how I ended up getting him as a sponsor because I have been playing stuff that you don't hear anywhere else and when he heard my station many years ago he wanted to sponsor me. So it pays to play a format that is eclectic and unique compared to the everyday dribble that you here on Commercial radio.

I suggested to him that we may have to buy a major album rock station say in the state where I live. Then what we would do is we would simply hook my internet signal to that major station and become a legal album Rock broadcaster on that great big huge radio station.

This is why I laugh because if it ever did happen think of it a hobby broadcaster becomes not only an internet broadcaster but an over-the-air broadcast and plays stuff that you don't normally hear anywhere else.

And again this is why I say it does pay to be a soldier of change because if people don't fight for change nothing good will ever come.

It just boils down to certain big folks want to become too greedy and keep the little guy quiet. But this time it's not going to continue to happen.

I've got a few Family events happening in a few days. I just recovered from a Hard Drive crash on my main Laptop I used for my Radio Station. Thank God I was able to copy the music to my Wife's computer and then by using Team Viewer I was able to copy it back onto an older Laptop that I had where as before it stopped working but now works just fine. Don't know what made it stop but I'm glad this one is working again.

My New laptop is in the shop and I think when I get it back I can use it for a separate broadcast to my Transmitter when I'm not doing a Live show since I have to play commercials and use "Trigger files" every 4th song to afford to pay the ridiculous royalty fee's to broadcast legally on the Internet so I can be on the Radio Directories.

I'm thinking however of making an audio presentation in 128K Mp3 about Radio Streaming with NextKast and ad supported content to help you stay a float legally.

Here is an hour lecture I made on Internet Radio Streaming, using Radio automation for your transmitter as well. You'll most likely need to set up a Dropbox account to DL this file.

www.dropbox.com/s/2y3g3rx2dwayr6t/Lecture%20On%20Streaming%20and%20P15.mp3?dl=0

If you're worried about Dropbox giving out your personal information you can always sign up with bogus information and definitely use a VPN and then download the file that way or listen.

Looks like the next lecture I will have to do will be one on VPN's.