Blog
04 March 2010
Hearkening back to the days of elementary school, the record labels who are pushing so hard for a performance tax have taken up a creative new strategy: name calling .
26 February 2010
Four more members of the U.S. Congress – Reps. Travis Childers, Mike
McMahon, Bill Owens, and Mark Schauer have signed on as co-sponsors to
the Local Radio Freedom Act, a resolution that stands up against the
performance tax. Kudos to them.
24 February 2010
Radio Business Report has done a good job of calling out the record companies – and their spin doctors – by breaking down where the money from a performance tax would go.
19 February 2010
Program director “Sweet Lenny” of WZOK in Rockford, Illinois has joined the growing chorus of broadcasters speaking out against the performance tax.
18 February 2010
If you’re thinking about telling your member of Congress to oppose the performance tax, this week is as good as it gets.
16 February 2010
In case you missed it last Friday, Whit Adamson, the President of the Tennessee Associations of Broadcasters, made a strong case
against the performance tax in Friday’s Nashville Tennessean.
12 February 2010
Broadcasters across the country are making the case to Congress that a proposed performance tax would threaten the free local radio we all have come to enjoy over the last 80 years or so. But individual citizens can join this fight, too.
08 February 2010
The Media Institute
, a non-profit dedicated to communications and free speech issues, blasted the concept of a performance tax in a report released this week.
04 February 2010
Students at the University of North Dakota are hoping the performance tax doesn’t scuttle their plan to start a campus radio station, the Dakota Student reports...
02 February 2010
American radio as we know it is in danger.
Right now in Washington, D.C. Congress is considering a bill which would institute an extra fee on songs played on the radio – a “performance tax.”