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Today, the Associated Press reports, four radio-broadcast companies and the government have settled on a plan to atone for engaging in pay-for-play agreements with the major labels. The broadcasters won't have to admit to any wrongdoing, but they will pay fines totaling $12.5 million to the government, and they'll free up 8,400 half-hour segments on their stations for music by "independent record labels and local artists":

The American Association of Independent Music, a group of independent record labels, has received a commitment from the same four broadcasters for the free airtime, the sources said.
In addition to airplay, the broadcasters and the independent labels have also negotiated a set of "rules of engagement" that will guide how record company representatives and radio programmers interact.

The free airtime would be granted to companies not owned or controlled by one of the nation's four dominant music labels -- Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and EMI Group.
The American Association of Independent Music is made up of some heavier hitters in the indie space, including the Beggars Group (which includes 4AD, Too Pure, and Beggars Banquet), Epitaph, and Koch; still, this promise of "free airtime" rings a bit hollow to us, if only because 4,200 hours spread across the country doesn't sound like all too much time for repeated spins of "How You Remind Me," and the possibility of those half-hours being relegated to low-rating slots seems all too real. Whether this punishment encourages radio stations to change their ways on a longer-term scale remains to be seen, but let's just say that we aren't exactly optimistic.

U.S., radio broadcasters in 'payola' settlement [AP via MSNBC]
Earlier: Will The FCC Force Radio Stations To Prove Their Indie Cred?
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The radio stations of Dallas, TX area, have already begun transitions to supply more independent material. I also had mixed feelings on the subject. I believe majority of the new time will be relocated for talk shows, commercials, and repeats of the same ole independent artists, which is starting to happen here. Most of the more prominent songs will air more during higher rated times and the crap will probably be played while we sleep :rolleyes:
 
i think they will play it all on Friday Night..from 1:30 - 2 AM ..lol

just cause noone will be listening...

but time will tell
 
thanks for the news. actually saw this at another forum, just didnt read it. i should have copy/pasted it then so everyone would think i'm as cool as you bknot1!! :D
 
LOL..yeah you should have...

and this isnt the one i wanted to post...cause the 1st one have more info..but i lost the link and said forget it..
 
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they'll be filling the 3:30AM - 4:00AM time slot with this indie music mandate.

Add in two 8 minute commercial breaks, and you have a whopping 14 minutes of indie air time!!!

3 songs a day...
 
lol..you its funny..cause they radio station back home in Alabama..has always played Indie Artist on the radio on Fridays from i think it was 9:30pm-10:00pm and i swear..just like Change said i must of heard only 3-4 Artist/groups..and they were from Tenn and GA..

but i can see it happending..

i bout to get to editting for accepella's for radio play..time to make some extra cash....:D
 
http://radio.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=111146

According to Peter Gordon, chief negotiator for AAIM, the four radio groups have agreed to provide 8,400 half-hour segments dedicated to independent artists between 6 a.m. and midnight. "This is not meant to be buried in the middle of the night," eh said.
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Maybe it might not be so bad after all.

I got a few edited material that I'll probably get aired very soon. This COULD be promising, however, it could back fire a lot too. We talk about the music industry of today cluttered with crap artists. Throw in 5 million more crap artists, and 100,000 good artists, and you still got problems.
 
is this the extra info you were talking about?

Government to collect $12.5 million in payola settlement
Associated Press Writer
By JOHN DUNBAR
5 March 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) - Exasperated listeners weary of hearing the same songs over and over on the radio may have something to cheer about: a pair of innovative deals that could shake up the music playlists of some of the nation's largest radio-station chains.

Four major radio broadcast companies have tentatively agreed to pay the government $12.5 million and provide 8,400 half-hour segments of free airtime for independent record labels and local artists in separate settlements aimed at curbing the persistent practice known as "payola," according to sources.

Payola -- generally defined as radio stations accepting cash or other consideration from record companies in exchange for airplay -- has been around as long as the radio industry and was made illegal following a series of scandals in the late 1950s.

Two Federal Communications Commission officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because final language has not been approved by the full commission, said the monetary settlement is part of a consent decree between the FCC and Clear Channel Communications Inc., CBS Radio, Entercom Communications Corp. and Citadel Broadcasting Corp.

The settlement between the government and the four broadcasters was reached in conjunction with a separate deal designed to lead to more airtime for smaller record companies and their lesser-known artists as well as local musicians.

The American Association of Independent Music, a group of independent record labels, has received a commitment from the same four broadcasters for the free airtime, the sources said.

In addition to airplay, the broadcasters and the independent labels have also negotiated a set of "rules of engagement" that will guide how record company representatives and radio programmers interact.

The free airtime would be granted to companies not owned or controlled by one of the nation's four dominant music labels -- Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and EMI Group.

The practice of payola, or "pay-for-play," has evolved over the years and become more difficult to track.

In recent years, "independent record promoters" have acted as middlemen to deliver payments to radio stations in exchange for airplay. Other forms of inducement include lavish prizes meant for listeners that wind up going to station employees; promises by record companies of concerts by well-known artists in exchange for airplay; and payments for promotional expenses and station equipment.

Under the FCC consent decree, broadcasters would agree to closer scrutiny in their dealings with record companies, including limits on gifts, a promise to keep a database of all items of value supplied by those companies, the employment of independent compliance officers to make sure stations are following the rules and even a new "payola hotline" for employees to report infractions.

Broadcasters admit to no wrongdoing under the three-year settlement, which has not yet been made public.
 
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Change of POETS again.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Mindset again.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to BillyBo again.
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Man i done gave reps to everyone..i need to give mooore...mooorrree....
 
bknot1 said:
Man i done gave reps to everyone..i need to give mooore...mooorrree....
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dude, i've tried to give like 20 different people rep and it won't let me. so i gave up. :(
 
I'mma go give a gift to the radio station and get airplay. It's not more of being hard to track, it's being difficult to do anything about it, till now that is. Give the gift of love, receive airplay and write it off at the end of the year lol.

You click on the rep thing, and approve or whatever the person's post to give rep points. You can't give it to the same person twice in a day, and you can't give rep out to that particular person until you pass around rep points to x amount of other people.
 
any airtime is better than no airtime right? but i got a diff. question for ya'll, is there any type of list of words that have to be edited out of a song before u get airtime? i know the basic words i was just curious if there was a "list"
 
DesertEase said:
any airtime is better than no airtime right? but i got a diff. question for ya'll, is there any type of list of words that have to be edited out of a song before u get airtime? i know the basic words i was just curious if there was a "list"
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No, other than the basic FUCK, Dumb Bitch, Slut, faggot, the stations have their own policies. K104.5 here allows the word Bitch if used in not a direct offensive way, while 106.1 does not allow anything, not even ass. All depends on the radio station man. That, and some common sense.

*No racial slurs
*No content that is offensive to a certain individual or group
*No sexual (rated r stuff) related stuff
*No genre offensive stuff (Women are bitches, all women are hoes, etc)

There's more but that's what I could think of.
 
yea i figured all that stuff would be on the list so it's basically you gotta check with the station to see what there rules are then
 
DesertEase said:
yea i figured all that stuff would be on the list so it's basically you gotta check with the station to see what there rules are then
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if it isnt family friendly then it needs to be edited out
 
tha bay n even out in sac been playin local cats for hella long, they get almost as much play as tha regular radio shit...
 
any one that can do a "minor plug" for the radio station itself, in your song - i have found that [provided the radio station dj aint hatin on you] if u change a line from its original to "bigup" the radio station or a particular dj . . . u can get a lil more access to airplay . . . [provided the radio station dj aint hatin on you]
[provided the radio station dj aint hatin on you]
[provided the radio station dj aint hatin on you]
[provided the radio station dj aint hatin on you]

the repetition was NOT a mistake . . .
 
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