[BC] ASCAP and BMI and Rights

[WFIFeng@aol.com]

In a message dated 02/01/2006 8:08:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lfuss2 at cox.net writes:

> In my 33 years in broadcasting, I've never talked with ANY broadcaster 
>  (i.e. station owner) in ANY market who didn't feel exactly the same way I
>  do.

I've been in B'casting about 18.5 years, and I agree, too.

>  I'm just more outspoken than most.  The performing rights organizations 
are 
>  nothing more than legalized rackets.

Hear! Hear!

I didn't see a rebuttal to my point about the composers who got a "tip" every 
year, while the stations playing their music were paying through the nose.

Willie...