Are you guys going to tape the broadcast?  You could then make it available
for us to listen to on your website.  I wanna listen to it, but I am in
Oregon.  : )

Julianna
90 VW Vanagon Westfalia
76  VW Automatic Bay Westfalia

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Bus Depot" <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Live Radio Broadcast from Bus Depot this Friday!

> > How about a streaming media web address for us to hear?
>
>
> I had been hoping for that. WMMR used to simulcast their station on their
> website.  But the record industry pretty much put a stop to many music
radio
> stations doing that, by demanding that they pay them royalties (beyond
what
> they already pay to broadcast the music on-air) if they were also putting
> the station on the internet.  Of course,  the record industry wanted
> mega-bucks, claiming that there are millions of people on the internet
> (even though few would actually listen to the simulcasts), whereas the
radio
> stations realized that simulcasting their broadcasts over the web really
> generated little additional revenue (since most people within the
stations'
> market have a radio, and most people outside of their market are not their
> local advertisers' target audiences). So most of them just stopped
> simulcasting their broadcasts (including WMMR).  Just one more thing to
> thank the entertainment industry for - along with the demise of Napster,
the
> existence of Macrovision and other copy-jammers that degrade audio/video
> performance, the royalties charged on blank audio CD-R's used to record
> music you already own, their 10 year battle to have the VCR declared
> illegal, their ongoing battle against TiVo, etc. etc. etc.  When I used to
> work in a stereo store, the RIAA even threatened to sue us if we played
any
> of the radios in our store without lining their pockets them first,
claiming
> that it amounted to an "unlicensed public performance."  ("Can I listen to
> that stereo receiver before I buy it?"  "No sir, that would be illegal.")
>
> - Ron Salmon
>   The Bus Depot, Inc.
>   (215) 234-VWVW
>   www.busdepot.com
>