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#179221 - 16/09/2003 08:00 Re: riaa bullsh*t [Re: wfaulk]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
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they get paid for radio broadcasts.
I thought it was the other way around...

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#179222 - 16/09/2003 08:06 Re: riaa bullsh*t [Re: tonyc]
wfaulk
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Good point, although they do still pay lip service to making radio stations pay.

(I don't know if you were referring to payola or the fact that the RIAA gives gigantic breaks on those payments to large radio stations, though.)

It's also notable that there are rules that radio stations muct play by, including not announcing songs significantly before they are played, so it's hard to get a copy of a specific song. (Unless it happens to be one of the three that get played four thousand times a day; waiting a few minutes isn't difficult.)
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#179223 - 16/09/2003 08:36 Re: riaa bullsh*t [Re: wfaulk]
peter
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It's also notable that there are rules that radio stations muct play by, including not announcing songs significantly before they are played, so it's hard to get a copy of a specific song.
And that, of course, is another notion that has been rather overtaken by technology these days: the smallest winchester you can buy is big enough to tivo two weeks of Radio 1 and costs £40.

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#179224 - 16/09/2003 15:22 Re: riaa bullsh*t [Re: peter]
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the smallest winchester you could buy would still put a nice hole in a tivo.

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#179225 - 16/09/2003 15:43 Re: riaa bullsh*t [Re: wfaulk]
tonyc
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(I don't know if you were referring to payola or the fact that the RIAA gives gigantic breaks on those payments to large radio stations, though.)
A little from column A, little from column B.
(Unless it happens to be one of the three that get played four thousand times a day; waiting a few minutes isn't difficult.)
I wonder if in those rules stations are required to talk over the beginning and end of songs so that if someone records a song, it's got the stupid DJ chatter. I'm only half serious here, I mean, I can't imagine such a rule would exist, but it certainly would be another reason to go buy the CD.
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#179226 - 16/09/2003 16:06 Re: riaa bullsh*t [Re: ]
hybrid8
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Loc: Toronto, CANADA
As always, the hill-billies have guns on the brain.

Winchester = HARD DISK DRIVE.

Bruno
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#179227 - 16/09/2003 16:32 Re: riaa bullsh*t [Re: tonyc]
DWallach
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Registered: 30/04/2000
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I wonder if in those rules stations are required to talk over the beginning and end of songs

I've been rolling a theory around in my head lately about this. Back in the old days, like the 1930's, one side of a 78rpm record could hold around 3 minutes of music, give or take. Initially, radio wasn't allowed to play records (the record companies being worried they wouldn't be able to sell records, after all...). As such, there was no pressure from radio on how music should be formatted. The pressure came from the time limit. Songs got started quickly and ran right up to the end, sometimes coming to very abrupt endings, sometimes having nicely choreographed endings, but certainly never having anyplace that a DJ could possibly have jumped in and talked over the song.

Fast forward to the 1980's. "Singles" are still under four minutes in length, mostly as a matter of tradition, not technology. Virtually all of the 80's music on my empeg fades out at the end. I suspect this is a direct result of over-talking from the radio stations. If they're going to talk over your song, you might as well just end your song in a fade-out so they don't mangle the meat of the song.

I don't know if there's any explicit regulation on talk-overs, but there's plenty of evidence that they've been around for a long time. Certainly, you'll never hear talk-overs on jazz, classical, or college radio stations. I think it's just some bastard creation of the commercial radio stations.

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#179228 - 16/09/2003 20:35 Re: riaa bullsh*t [Re: hybrid8]
ashmoore
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Registered: 24/08/1999
Posts: 564
Loc: TX
ahhh, the winchester! I haven't heard that name in relation to disks for a long while.
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#179229 - 17/09/2003 00:21 A few good URL's for you.... [Re: JeffS]
StoreCareMgt
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Registered: 03/12/2002
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Loc: Encinitas CA, USA
Here are a few good URL's, enjoy.

The news story:
http://bbspot.com/News/2003/09/riaa_sue.html

The video:
http://overstated.net/media/RIAA_PSA.mpg

Jeremy Briggs
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