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June 27, 2007, 03:43 PM ET
The Day the Music Slept
Many of Internet radio’s heaviest hitters — and plenty of smaller broadcasters, as well — observed a “day of silence” yesterday in protest of the Webcasting royalty hikes set to take effect in July. And if the plan was to show that online stations have plenty of fans, it looks like the shutdown was quite a success.
The SaveNetRadio Coalition, which organized the online protest, told U.S. News & World Report that its Web site was flooded with visitors requesting contact information for their local lawmakers. The coalition has asked Internet-radio listeners to support the “Internet Radio Equality Act” — a bill, introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, that would prevent the proposed royalty increase.
The fee hike, campus broadcasters say, could force some college stations to cap their online audiences. A number of college stations — including KTRU, of Rice University; KZSU, of Stanford University; and WSUM, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison — participated in the day of silence. —Brock Read
Categories: Student-Life, Legal-Troubles
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