[BC] The END of Internet Radio?

[Robert Meuser]

Everything you say is correct, but I wonder if some enterprising 
webcaster who is driven off the web might get creative and stream 
unlicensed music and create the equivalent of a 21st century garage band 
format.  Then what if it actually worked?

R

ChuxGarage at aol.com wrote:

> most  stations have less than 
>100 listeners on line. A really popular station might  have 500 listeners on 
>average. Very few have over 1000 listeners at any given  time. It would be very 
>hard to come up with a business model that could pay for  the new proposed 
>royalties.  At 16 songs per hour for 500 listeners, that  works out to be around 
>$76,000 for this year, and it will escalate to the  $100,000 range in a few 
>years.  Unless you are selling crack cocaine on  your web site, it is going to 
>be hard to make a profit from your web  stream.  Perhaps the mega-giants can 
>afford to subsidize it, but the small  broadcaster will be forced off the 
>Internet.
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>Is that what everyone really wants?
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