[BC] question for the braintrust

[Rich Wood]

------ At 08:20 PM 1/20/2006, JYRussell at academicplanet.com wrote: -------

>There are consulting operations that hire people to sit and listen 
>to the radio.  Their hourly job is to sit and listen to a specific 
>radio station during specified hours and document what songs they 
>hear, sending the information in by internet back to the service, 
>who posts it or sells it, and pays them for their time.  They may 
>work one or two hours per day, or, 8 to 10 hours a day, covering one 
>or more stations in the formats they qualify for (the consulting 
>firm gives them a pretty broad music knowledge test to see which 
>songs they know best...)

I had friends who were listeners for BMI and ASCAP. They'd sit in a 
restaurant or bar that wasn't a subscriber and document the music 
they were playing. A few days later a representative of the 
organization would pay a visit. Pay the license fee or see us in court.

Rich

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