WGBH: 'We're Not Doing Britney Spears Here'
Like many in the public radio community, Bob Lyons, director of new media for Boston's WGBH Radio, is not happy with the recent Copyright Royalty Board decision to increase fees paid to record labels and artists for online music offerings. "In the short term it's bad, in the long term it's worse," he said of the ruling.
If the CRB decision stands, his station will not be able to grow its Internet services and may be forced to "stop much of what we're [currently] doing," he said. Meanwhile, WGBH's "service-oriented" music -- like classical, blues, folk and Celtic -- has attracted a bevy of new listeners online, Lyons said.
He emphasized that public radio's goals are unlike those of commercial stations and shouldn’t be treated as such. "We're not doing Britney Spears here," Lyons said. He believes that WGBH, which was an early adopter of Web streaming, is "getting punished for its success."
Read about new developments in the CRB controversy in Technology Daily's PM edition.
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