Comments on: Net radio bill passes House

Legislation, which Web radio stations have said could mean life or death for their services, will move on to the Senate. Traditional radio stations have dropped opposition.

[HighwayHome]

The Federal Government should not stick their stinking noses in this issue. Go do what you do best...spending trillions on eradicating humanity for your commercial interests!

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"The Federal Government should not stick their stinking noses in this issue. Go do what you do best...spending trillions on eradicating humanity for your commercial interests! "

Anyone care to comment that actually understands this issue or has something intelligent to say?

The newest enemy is NAB which was a brother in arms with webcasters for about a year now against RIAA/SoundExchange. Now at the eleventh hour, they (NAB) turn on webcasters and try to undermine passage of an agreement that would keep webcasters alive. NAB has now betrayed their TRUE desire to eradicate all non-terrestrial webcasters and save the internet for themselves. Big surprise.

If you're looking for someone who the Webcaster Settlement Act does NOT concern, look no further than NAB.

Everywhere you look...weasels.

[HlLLARY CLITON]

I wonder how the two presidential candidates stand on this

[hhandyman]

Its just this simple Mom and Pop ratio stations are almost dead its company stations that mat the airwaves with minimal effort that are thrying tl eliminate competiton from those that would have skills to take them on currently the web beats broadcaserts with news good bad and qualitys both but not the same story 20 plus haours aday and the same for 4 news networks and the chain of wire serices that repeat the same story with limited actualy shoe leahter reportiong no wonder they dont want people seeing or hearing entertainment they can not compete with.. INDIVIDUAL tallents that live and die with the skill

anyone that is willing to pay to do their job must be dong what they want to do with life.. or like the paid media got that Tom Sawyer paint brush and want to charge people to work for them.. and that is where commercial broadcasting has gone with music entertianment and content.. Public service is the public free at service to the public

its time Public servants started doing the same.. kill the salries and live on your forturnes unless you have less than 50 grand to your name then you need a salrie for your work.. if your independantly weahtly drop the congressional healt insurance and retirement program.. they dont need it.
same is true for any Governmental employeee if you have liquid assetts in excess of 40 grand then your benifits you can pay for and not live on public welfare.. pay to enter government hostpitals just like the middle class.. learn what the general pubic knows..

[tabulator32]

I am anxious to see where we end up with this new development.

-------> Small internet radio broadcaster. <-------

Try skipping all the hateful commentary and go with some prayer.

Thanks.

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Tab,

How about not posting at all if you don't have anything to say about the issue. Your comment may be the most incomprehensible one on this thread! And that's saying something considering the post just prior to yours

[gadgetguruNG]

Even the thought that the NAB would oppose internet radio viability is absurd beyond logic. How could an industry group focused on an industry's interests undermine itself? Over the history of business, those that have ignored technology and new platforms have met demise. IP based radio is the future (and growing part of the present) for all radio companies. Does the NAB want to help or hurt its constituency's margins. This is an industry that needs help.

Let's do a situational analysis for terrestrial broadcasters and see if they should be embracing the internet not trying to eliminate it from their future: stocks in the toilet. companies are overleveraged and losing share to new platforms including satellite and ipods and internet (ignored all of them), digital broadcast/HD radio is all but dead and uncompelling vs IP. Their own industry group has been asleep in trying to make internet a viable platform.

This "fix" lowers current royalties to more favorable levels Translation: higher margins, make money. That's good for terrestrial broadcaster's webcasting business. Gas tanks like gas, not sand. Improve margins and leverage IP, the ultimate broadcast tower. Support this bill.

[DASCHE56]

Fed's should stay out of this
the omnipresent government doesnt need to address this issue
royalty rates between parties should be hammered between the parties involved.

[cdegraff2]

With all the crap on the local radio stations, I don't know what I would do without internet radio. I hope this bill will be a help but worry whenever government gets involved.