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04/16/2001 Archived Entry: "Static over online ads silences Web radio"

News: Static over online ads silences Web radio
Clear Channel Communications, Emmis Communications and several other large broadcasting companies turned off many or all of their Web streams Tuesday, citing ongoing negotiations with the record industry and advertisers.
Online listeners at Clear Channel stations ranging from Los Angeles' KFI Talk Radio to San Francisco's popular KMEL hip-hop station were given a terse apology instead of the expected live radio stream. The note cited "issues regarding demands for additional fees for the streaming of recorded music and radio commercials."

"We are working with...our advertisers and the Recording Industry Association of America to find a solution to those problems as quickly as possible so that we can resume our streaming," the note said.

I saw this coming. The mega-corporations that derive large amounts of revenue from recorded music will not sit down and shut until they have co-opted every possible channel for the distribution of their music. It really has little to do with the artists and everything to do with the control of distribution.