because universities all have had letters from the RIAA and their bandwidth
costs are being monitored and some uni networking systems have the ability to
control what you can and cant get.
in the uk where i'm now teaching a class in advanced music business -
talkin about this stuff - the schools on a 56k dialup! at least
that's what everyone at the school says... and that wouldnt surprise
me knowing the cost to set up a university on broadband in the UK...
college radio stations dont run with any large budget from
universities...if anyones on the list from college radio - maybe they
can tell you how it works -
most of them run by the intuition of the students without any
related course work. unless things have changed in the states in the
last 15 years when i was doin college radio. uni's arent offering
how to dj on college radio courses... you just go in there and learn
it... they may get a budget of like $20,000 to run the whole station
for everything for the year.
many of the college stations had to shut down their internet radio operations
last year when the CARP bill was introduced because not all of them fell into
the exception rule and they were gonna have to pay a lot of money to stream
online so they chose to go OFF-LINE. perhaps you werent reading any
of the posts on this list and others last year about the death of
internet radio
due to congressional legislation.
Are you aware of what it costs universities, labels, etc to
host/stream things like videos, mp3's? I'm talking about the
bandwidth bill that's paid on the other side when you download from
where you're getting - not a P2P site - but a streaming radio site?
Also, most record contracts with labels, from sole operators to
majors have "free goods" clauses as yes that's how the record
industry works. Artists generally dont get paid royalties on xx
number of free goods to enable best efforts for promotion purposes on
the part of the label.
That means that a label has the option to decide HOW best to promote
the artist:
they might want to give promos to one dj for an exclusive, they might
want to give 500 CD's away to college radio, they might want to spend
the money on a video or an MTV campaign. They might want to
circulate some mp3s to generate interest - they might wanna run a
pay per listen/view campaign for something in advance.
btw: I wish to qualify that these comments do not necessarily
reflect the opinions or policy of the email address i have. i'm
speakin in general terms with points of information.
I'm 100% behind the comments Jeff posted yesterday.
nH
quoted 14 lines I actually was wondering if there is a reason that college radio
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>I actually was wondering if there is a reason that college radio
>hasn't moved to just running straight off a computer. I know the
>local ones still use cds, which are mailed to them en masse by
>labels, and often seemed like a pretty big waste. Pretty much
>any university has the bandwidth to download high-qualitiy
>copies of trax, so it would seem more efficient to promote that way.
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