Royalties Hearings on the Hill; Using Radio to Defy Ebola

Nominate Your New Product Manufacturers: Do you have a new product to tell the industry about? Don't forget to nominate it for the 2015 NewBay Media Best of Show Awards. All nominees also will be covered in the post-show Program Guide. See last year's winners here. Top Stories - 03.10.15 Pointing Fingers on Music Royalties A Senate subcommittee hearing on music royalties reform didn't debut any new music. The songwriters want more money while the broadcasters said if the "consent decree" was relaxed the songwriters might return to their anticompetitive behavior that prompted the consent decree in the first place. Radio-Delivered Lessons Defy Ebola In disease-torn Sierra Leone, where schools have been shut down, lessons are delivered over the radio to many children. News & Technology AUDIENCE: Streaming Listening Up by One-Third NAB SHOW: FCC Full Court Press at Show PEOPLE: CBS Radio Taps Mennuto LAS VEGAS: Convention Center to Expand PROGRAMMING: PodcastOne Adds "American Crime," Piolín NAB SNEAK PEEK: Digigram Displays AoIP Advances Around the Industry Montgomery Co. Sues FCC Over Tower Siting (Multichannel News) A suburban Maryland county, home to many U.S. federal government workers, is doing something unusual — it is suing the FCC claiming that the agency is overstepping its authority. Samsung Opens Milk Music to Everyone (IT World) It looks like the consumer electronics giant is making its Internet audio streaming service available to anyone with a browser and an Internet connection rather than just to Samsung product users. "March Madness" Is Trademarked (BroadcastLawBlog) David Oxenford reminds everyone that while the NCAA wants you to talk about its "March Madness" basketball tournament, it can be rather hawkish about use of the term since it has trademarked it. Station Proposal Gets Fuzzy Reception (Whitefish Bay Now) A proposal to build an LPFM for Whitefish Bay High School in Whitefish Bay, Wis., has run aground. "The school district's administration has conducted a feasibility study that concluded a radio station would open the district up to potential expenses and liability." Calendar of Events Alabama Broadcasters Engineering Academy Radio Advanced Class March 9–11 ABA Training Center Hoover, Alabama CabSat MENA March 10–12 Dubai, UAE Radiodays Europe March 15–17 Milan ProLight+Sound March 15–18 Frankfurt, Germany CeBIT March 16–20 Hannover, Germany For a full list of upcoming events visit the Radio World calendar page.

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