thought i'd pass this on, my favorite radio station in raleigh is going off the internet due to the new fees and restrictions associated with remaining online. this is from the station manager and describes the situation.---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:13:17 -0400 From: Arielle Subject: RE: KNC Stream [1:51144:51751]This message was sent from: WKNC Chat. ----------------------------------------------------------------It does, but it's not the cost that is causing us to shut it down. The cost is a "minimum $500 per year"... but that only accounts for 18 people streaming and playing like 13 or 14 songs an hour. But we could maybe manage the 2 cents per person, per 100 songs.The problem comes with the record keeping they mandate with webstreaming. Start and end times for every song (not too hard), artist (okay), title (okay), composers (a little harder), serial number (wtf??). I think there are a few more things they wanted, but honestly, programming this info in for every song that we play is ridiculous. This means we'd also have to get all the DJs to find this info and write it down any time they play a request, vinyl, or CDs not loaded into the computer. It's ridiculous and nearly impossible...We would need someone to sit in the studio 24/7 writing down all this info - which sometimes isn't available, like from earlier album that don't have serial numbers and barcodes. Then still if only the magic 18 people webstream our signal, the price would become quite exponential since we play on average 16 songs an hour, we'd be paying $22.11 everyday to stream to those 18 people. So really, it does have to do with the internet tax, but it is a few reasons together why we can't do it after their kill-date. :( ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sent using Phorum software version 3.2.6