Local radio stations which stream content over the Internet could get hit hard by a proposal to dramatically increase royalty fees for web-distributed music.
The Copyright Royalty Board proposed major increases earlier this month in the royalty fees stations pay to broadcast content online. Stations had previously paid an annual fee and a percentage of profits to SoundExchange, a D.C.-based royalty collection agency. The new system would require a per-song fee plus an annual fee for each of the station’s channels – all retroactive to January 2006.
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