[JPL] Internet Radio/Monday Program

[Lazaro Vega]

"There is by the way.....a way around the maximum of four songs per
three hour period by the same artists as you brought up. I don't fully
understand what needs to be done to do this but there is a way around
it and Tim talked about it briefly."

Yes, you write the labels and ask them to sign a waiver which is cool,
until you get to Columbia, RCA, Decca and Verve then you're SOL --
they won't do it, or haven't after multiple attempts. I was basically
told to let it go, too small an issue for their lawyers to take up and
too much work for the people in the middle who have to run the
requests up to legal and then back to radio (which is true but they
should have thought about that when they lobbied congress to make this
law). With those "majors" out it eliminates the largest catalogues of
the most significant historic jazz of the swing era and immediately
after. Louis, Duke, Billie, Basie, Bessie, Ella, Bird, Pres, Hawk,
Roy....

It isn't a thing. Our web stream is capped at 75 and we've never maxed
the server. The usual on line audience for our nightly jazz program is
under 25 people. It just makes no sense to follow these rules for 25
people when perhaps 2,500 are listening on the FM side and expecting,
after 24 years, a certain level of historical programming.