Following Up On WVIK
Residents of eastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois can once again listen to their National Public Radio affiliate online. Technology Daily reported in mid-June that Rock Island, Ill.-based WVIK shut down its Web stream to protest a March ruling to hike fees paid to music labels.
The station, which was reportedly one of the first public radio casualties of the proposed fee increase, serves hundreds of thousands of citizens in the Quad Cities that flank the Mississippi River.
At a Friday meeting between NPR, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and digital royalty collector SoundExchange, a payment was offered to cover what the noncommercial entities believed was due by the July 15 deadline. Discussions are ongoing about the amount of the ultimate fee, an NPR spokeswoman said.
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