Dear college radio volunteer,
You are at war with cor****ate radio, but your station has only
1/1000th the wattage of these payola-powered ****ers.
If your station started podcasting your shows
(what is podcasting? : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting),
you
could be heard anywhere in the entire world, by anybody, at any time.
Podcasting is much, much more powerful than streaming radio.
(People can listen anywhere, like on the the subway during their
morning commute.) And it's cheaper too, just a drop in the
budget bucket.
But it's illegal. Unless you have signed written permission of
each of the bands on your playlist. Impossible for one station to
accomplish. But if EVERY station asked permission all at once?
Maybe.
So we're passing around a "college radio podcasting rights
petition."
Why do we care? Clear Channel, who has been given permission by
the Bush administration's version of the FCC to own more stations
than ever before has been accepting millions, perhaps billions
of dollars in payola in exchange for spins. ****y records.
Fake, cor****ate records. And our friends in bands can't quit
their dishwa****ng dayjobs.
Tables Turned is a small podcast promotion / activism group who's
working to attain the independent records industry's permission
to empower a new generation of non-commercial radio: podcasts.
Once all of college radio is everywhere, Clear Channel will become
only a drop in the bucket.
Anyway, if you agree with any of this, click here:
http://tablesturned.com/pages/collegeradiopetition
We're going to try to clear your playlists for use on a much
better, cheaper form of broadcast. Stay tuned. And spread the
word.
In solidarity,
Marcus Estes
Tables Turned
http://tablesturned.com
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