just thought i d pass this on my favorite radio station in raleigh is going off the internet due to the new fees and restrictions associated with remaining online this is from the station manager and describes the situation forwarded message date tue NUMBER sep NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER from arielle gm wknc org subject re knc stream NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER this message was sent from wknc chat URL it does but it s not the cost that is causing us to shut it down the cost is a minimum NUMBER per year but that only accounts for NUMBER people streaming and playing like NUMBER or NUMBER songs an hour but we could maybe manage the NUMBER cents per person per NUMBER songs the problem comes with the record keeping they mandate with webstreaming start and end times for every song not too hard artist okay title okay composers a little harder serial number wtf i think there are a few more things they wanted but honestly programming this info in for every song that we play is ridiculous this means we d also have to get all the djs to find this info and write it down any time they play a request vinyl or cds not loaded into the computer it s ridiculous and nearly impossible we would need someone to sit in the studio NUMBER NUMBER writing down all this info which sometimes isn t available like from earlier album that don t have serial numbers and barcodes then still if only the magic NUMBER people webstream our signal the price would become quite exponential since we play on average NUMBER songs an hour we d be paying NUMBER NUMBER everyday to stream to those NUMBER people so really it does have to do with the internet tax but it is a few reasons together why we can t do it after their kill date sent using phorum software version NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER http phorum org 