The newest Christmas Music 24/7 station, the all instrumental one, that I set up in January after buying several dozen new CDs, has been shut down in preparation for the July 15th deadline for retroactive performance royalties. I’ll miss sharing my love of Christmas music with thousands of my friends from across the world.
Barring some kind of miracle from the court system (far fetched), Congress (near-impossible), or SoundExchange, my plan is to shut down the flagship station, Christmas Music 24/7, entirely on Friday the 13th, truly an unlucky day. Christmas Music 24/7 was the third most popular station of Live365’s 10,000 stations in December 2006.
It appears that Sound Exchange is unwilling to negotiate with all small webcasters, just some of them. So I’ve started generating the reports to see exactly how much I will owe. I had budgeted for $4,000 for all 24 months of 2006 and 2007. And it looks like for 17 months of 2006 and through May 2007, I’ll owe around $8,000, so doubling what I thought I would have to pay. And I won’t even get the enjoyment of being able to webcast through the Christmas 2007 season.
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