Current Article
August 29th, 2009 by Phil JohnsonLast week a number of us from Public Interactive, NPR and the CPB were interviewed by Karen Everhart of Current about the CPB-SoundExchange agreement and some of the issues this has raised with stations. The resulting article that Karen wrote was published this week and is pretty good. I encourage you to read it, if you haven’t already.
Karen did a good job of getting the facts straight; I only noticed one error in the article. The following comment is not right:
Under the current contract, some 270 stations, or 60 percent of the 450 that are eligible, are required to begin reporting this year.
The agreement is actually to report on 60% of music ATH in the system by the end of 2009 (and 80% by the end of 2010), not 60% of the covered entities. Just for the record, your honor.