[edoceo]

How does licensing work for the music you play?

[josefritzishere]

They just pay into ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. The royalty groups disburse on estimated airplay. Non-coms pay a reduced rate. I can go mch deeper if you want. I used to work in that field.

[fuzzfactor]

I think they cracked down on estimated airplay.

At KPFT I endured the transition a number of years ago where we had to log every song played and nothing like that had ever been required since the beginning.

[solomonb]

For terrestrial broadcast or online? You go through a handful of music industry organizations such as ASCAP and BMI. For terrestrial broadcast the costs are scaled to approximate listenership.

[dylan604]

Gonna be hard to prove you have 10 listeners whether that's really all you have or just downplaying the fees!