Rachel Murray

Then don’t let the Copyright Royalty Board get away with hurting it. This is from Tim at Pandora (one of my favorite sites). They make it really easy to let your representatives know that this is crap.

I’m writing today to ask for your help. The survival of Pandora and all of Internet radio is in jeopardy because of a recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC to almost triple the licensing fees for Internet radio sites like Pandora. The new royalty rates are irrationally high, more than four times what satellite radio pays, and broadcast radio doesn’t pay these at all. Left unchanged, these new royalties will kill every Internet radio site, including Pandora.

In response to these new and unfair fees, we have formed the SaveNetRadio Coalition, a group that includes listeners, artists, labels and webcasters. I hope that you will consider joining us.

Please sign our petition urging your Congressional representative to act to save Internet radio: http://capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/issues/alert/?alertid=9631541

So, I’m doing my usual routine. Get up. Turn oven on to make bagel (long story). Turn on Air America radio. What do I hear?

Nos emocionan para traer a oyentes hispánicos a través de Orlando una estación que pueden llamar sus el propios, “Linda comentado Byrd, vice presidente regional para la Florida central y del norte. “Orlando es uno de los mercados hispánicos cada vez mayor más rápidos de la nación y es también una del más grande con el aproximadamente 20% de oyentes que son hispánicos.

QUE??????

GodDAMNit, can’t anyone do anything right?

From Kos
From the Globe

Goodbye Air America, hello “Rumba.” Thursday at noon, Clear Channel stations WKOX-AM (1200) and WXKS-AM (1430) will switch from “Boston’s Progressive Talk” to “La Nueva Rumba,” both simulcasting a “tropical” format of primarily Spanish-language announcers and music, ranging from salsa, merengue, and bachata to the contemporary sound of reggaeton. Spearheading the new format, which carries the tagline “Orgullo Latino” (“Latino Pride”), is Rafael “Raffy” Contigo, a 26-year veteran of both English- and Spanish-language radio who has already flipped Clear Channel-owned stations in other markets.

RIDICULOUS

My letter to Marc Maron, the brilliant comedian and radio host of AirAmerica’s Morning Sedition (until the end of the year)…

Hey there Marc,

I know you’ve gotten tons of emails about how wrong it is that you’ve been canned, but after listening to this morning’s show, I just had to write to say it just really breaks my heart that you’re leaving. You doing the show solo this week just proves how strong you are as a radio personality. You’re intelligent, cogent, engaging, funny (of course) and most importantly, help me to get my lazy ass out of bed in the morning. NPR could never do that, and those other “entertainment” morning shows are annoying.

Other than small doses of Randhi Rhodes, I now have absolutely no reason to listen to Air America.

Freakin’ management. I will blame them for any bad mornings I have in 2006.

-Rachel

PS Jesus loves you, get used to it. (never fails to make me laugh)