[BC] No free lunch...

[Burt I. Weiner]

There's not such thing as a free lunch.  We pay by remote 
control.  Advertisers pay the stations (hopefully) for our ears.  Why 
just last night I turned off the late night local TV news in a fit of 
rage because of all the damned spots.  So much so that my wife said 
to me, "If your're that upset just go throw it on their front door step!".

Burt

At 07:21 AM 1/27/2006, you wrote:
> >Broadcasting should be considered a "casual" performance, exempt from
> >performance rights fees.  As I've said, we are not charging people
> >to listen to our
> >station.
>
>There's a very simple solution. Stop playing their music. Do a dry
>talk format with no bumpers or themes. Accept only commercials
>without music or jingles. If you do use music there's lots of stuff
>from the turn of the century that's public domain. I know iPod owners
>in our target demos are loading their iPods with stuff from around
>1910. It's stuff they don't have to steal.
>
>Rich

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