Now ye're talking - to Christmas FM!

micks_address wrote: »

Cool thread,

Its not directly related but I've always been curious how song royalties work - if you play a song how much of a royalty is paid? Who monitors how many times a day you play it etc or is it self regulated? I'm assuming radio stations pay chunks of royalties at various intervals instead of daily etc.. does everyone pay the same rate?

Apologies if off topic.

Thanks,
Mick

I don't look after this area in the station but as far as i'm aware there is a license to be on air to the PPI and IMRO, as do all businesses when a radio or any music player is present. So if you have a radio in work or listen to youtube, your employer will be contributing to the songwriters and artists.

http://www.ppimusic.ie/about-ppi/what-is-ppi

"PPI controls the public performance, broadcasting, and other rights in hundreds of thousands of recordings on thousands of different labels. These include not only Irish recordings but also most recordings available worldwide. The list of recordings in PPI’s repertoire is constantly increasing as new titles are released. A licence from PPI gives you the right to play virtually any sound recording from anywhere in the world."

Dr_serious2 wrote: »

'Boards ask me anything'- except uncomfortable questions that I don't want to answer.

Ah where would boards be without it's keyboard warriors. No that's not the case that any questions have been uncomfortable... But I'm not gonna pretend I know everything about the station when I don't or take credit for other peoples work that look after aspects of the Radio station. For example that last answer on PPI I had to Google and as the poster mentioned it doesn't relate directly to what its like being a presenter on this specific station.

I'm also, as mentioned before, not going to spend my time phoning up people and asking them to looking up playlists for individual songs or publicly discuss the merits of a decision someone else on the team made. I just don't have that sort of free time, nor do the people i'd need to call. And what's the point - if the person asking was a regular listener they'd know if they'd heard it before or not? These are easy questions to ask, kind of unimportant and take a lot more time to answer than ask.