Radio Fights Back, Calls Artist Royalties an 'RIAA Tax'

[Jorge]

Unable to explain why satellite radio, Internet streaming-services, and everybody else has to pay royalties to artists and it doesn't, terrestrial radio fights back with words like "tax" and "foreign-owned labels."
Last week I mentioned how the music industry had begun calling terrestrial radio "a form of piracy." They did so as part of an effort to get full royalty payments that now otherwise exclude royalties having to be paid to artists and musicians. Now it seems the National Assn. of Broadcasters (NAB) is fighting back with a clever series of charged catchphrases and terms.

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[drtoker]

Glad some one is fighting back. I remember when they increased the fees associated with webcasting (streaming). A lot of people running home stations had to shut down IIRC.
Never heard of terrestrial radio... Will have to look it up!

[Jared Moya]

Glad some one is fighting back. I remember when they increased the fees associated with webcasting (streaming). A lot of people running home stations had to shut down IIRC.
Never heard of terrestrial radio... Will have to look it up!

He he.... "terrestrial radio" is just regular radio, it began being referred to as "terrestrial" after satellite radio emerged in order to distinguish the two by their signal origins.

[Sephiroth]

Another simpler way to put it is terrestrial radio is the radio that sucks balls by playing the same dozen songs over and over with commercials every 4 songs. Clear Channel is the largest terrestrial radio company and is who I am talking about.

If radio really wanted to put pressure on the RIAA they would stop taking payola and stop pushing the bands the record companies want them to and instead just play good music. Rather than make ridiculous fliers with xenophobic ducks that looks like a 1930s propaganda poster.