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April 10, 2007

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CRB coverage 2007:
CRB decision
SaveTheStreams
Legal options
Markey
Petitions
Copyright law
Canada?
Fred Wilhelms [2] [3]
JPMorgan analyst
SaveNetRadio
Rehearing denied
SNR.org website
B'casters interests
Day of Silence?
What is "fair"?
House IREA
SX Point/Counter
July 15th D-Day
Hill walk recap
Senate IREA
Hanson/Simson
Offer to SCW
Berman/Coble
100th co-sponsor
File for stay
Noncomm offer
$1 bil admin cost

CRB coverage 2002:
CARP decision
Industry reacts
Industry stunned
Huge RIAA win
SJO editorial
Day of Silence?
Congress support
Day of Silence on!
Press coverage
Day of Silence
Librarian decision
Cuban speaks up
Labels: Die Now!
Forbes coverage
SWSA
SCW license

"The Future of
Radio" series
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

"Net radio frontier:
Ad sales" series
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

UPDATED:
Internet radio
royalty basics

Copyright Law
DMCA
CRB 2007
Webcast decision

Headline: "Early registration for RAIN Summit ends Thursday, April 12"

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Headline: "Internet radio listening leaps in annual AMS national study"
BY DANIEL MCSWAIN
Growing audiences continue to flock to Net radio, and they're finding new ways and places to listen.

The finding comes from a new study by American Media Services that reinforces many commonly held beliefs among webcasters.

A press release on the study states that "the number of those who say they have listened to a radio station over the Internet has almost doubled over the past 12 months," up to 67% from 36% just one year ago.

71% of respondents claimed to listen to Net radio at home, long considered the second most popular listening location behind work/office, where 42% of respondents tuned in, according to the study.

While the AMS study doesn't provide stats about TSL at home and office, the surprisingly high number of home listeners could be a sign that home-listening platforms such as WiFi-capable home audio systems and portable players are growing in popularity and exposing new audiences to the medium.

There's good news on the mobile front, too. Of the 47% of respondents very likely to listen to Net radio in the future, 36% said they planned to listen via cell phone or mobile device, while 28% said they would listen through an Internet connection in their vehicle.

Visit the American Media Services site here.

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Although the AMS press release implies that Internet radio listening is higher at home than at work, a close read of the data does not support that conclusion.

Sampling of the medium, "ever," may be higher at home than at work, but when TSL is factored in, the study's data does not disprove the covnentional wisdom that the majority of Internet radio listening today occurs in the workplace.

Given that the U.S. 18+ population is about 220 million people, the AMS study suggests that over 147 million American adults have sampled Internet radio, with over 75 million currently listening per month. -- KH
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	Internet radio may be driven out of business within weeks by a Copyright Royalty Board decision that gives record companies a royalty rate that exceeds 100% of most webcasters' total revenues. Visit SaveNetRadio.org for links to a petition to Congress you can sign, and to send the message directly to your Representative and Senators that you don't want to lose Internet radio!

PETITION UPDATE: Please keep Internet radio alive!
was at over 53,974 signatures as of 2PM CT today (up from 51,000 last Friday). Today's sample signature:

#	Name	Thanks to Internet radio, have your CD (or music download) purchases (01) gone up, (02) stayed the same, or (03) gone down?	Do you feel that the existence of Internet radio helps or hurts the music industry?	Other comments
53113	Priscilla Chakwin	01	Helps. If you don't hear the music, how will you know it exists? If you don't know it exists, there goes the whole purchasing thing.	Internet radio has much better variety than local radio... If it weren't for internet radio, no one would even have a clue as to what they were hearing. FM radio has largely done away with identifying the music they play.

Internet radio listeners are currently signing this petition to Congress at the rate of several hundred listeners every hour -- with most of them adding insightful comments about their music purchase behavior! (Read more comments here.) If you'd like to link to this petition from your website, you'll find tools (banner, buttons, PSAs) and links at RAIN's SaveTheStreams.org. Another petition with tens of thousands of additional signatures is available, if you prefer its design, here.

Headline: "Finetune online radio product launches sleek desktop app"

From TechCrunch: "Social music site Finetune... [previous RAIN coverage

here] launched their Apollo-based desktop music player this evening.

"To use it you must download and install the Apollo runtime on your Mac or PC, and then install FineTune...

"After installation, you can run the Finetune web service on your desktop, outside of the browser.

"The player has been around in beta for a couple of months now. It has a number of advantages over Pandora, including playlists with songs on demand (the playlist must have a minimum of 45 songs), and the desktop client is a great addition as well."

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RAIN coverage of the 2002 CARP royalty rate ruling

Feb. 20, 2002	CARP rec.'s .07-cent fee for radio webcasts, twice that for 'Net only
Feb. 21, 2002	Industry reacts to CARP royalty rates for Internet broadcasts
Feb. 25, 2002	Industry still stunned by CARP arbitrators' recommendation.
Feb. 27, 2002	CARP arbitrators gave RIAA more than they asked for!
April 18, 2002	Mercury News editorial
April 22, 2002	Day of Silence announced
April 23, 2002	More support in Congress
April 25, 2002	Day of Silence is ON!
April 29, 2002	DOS in USA Today, NY Post
May 1, 2002	Day of Silence
June 20, 2002	Librarian Decision
June 24, 2002	Cuban on Yahoo deal
July 11, 2002	Labels to Net radio: Die Now!
October 1, 2002	Forbes coverage (scroll down)
November 15, 2002	Small Webcasters Settlement Act
December 16, 2002	Small commercial webcaster license


April 14-19	NAB 2007: Las Vegas, NV
April 16	RAIN Las Vegas Summit '07: Las Vegas
April 24	Leadership Music Digital Summit: Nashville, TN
May 2	Future of Music Coalition D.C. Policy Day: Washington D.C.
September 26-27	NAB Radio Show: Charlotte, NC
October 13	IBS Webcast Conference: Seattle, WA
October 27	IBS Webcast Conference: Chicago
November 3	IBS Webcast Conference: Boston, MA
November 4-6	NAB European Radio Conference: Barcelona, Spain
December 1	IBS Webcast Conference: Fort Lauderdale, FL
December 8	IBS Webcast Conference: Los Angeles

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