Satellite broadcasters like XM & Sirius pay them, but at a significantly lower rate than Internet stations like RP.
RP pays a surprisingly hefty fee to SoundExchange each year, which is distributed to artists and record labels.įM & AM Broadcast stations in the US are not required to pay performance royalties at all (though they do in Europe & elsewhere). They represent performers and record companies - mostly the latter, since they are a de-facto arm of the infamous Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In addition, Internet radio stations are subject to additional copyright fees (performance royalties), paid to yet another industry group called SoundExchange. These fees are distributed to songwriters & publishers based on periodic airplay surveys & reports. We pay fees to the industry groups ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC (who represent songwriters & publishers) in very much the same way that an FM station does. If we see a pattern of requests for a particular song from a variety of different listeners, that will tend to make us play it more often overall. That means that we get a steady flow of requests, and the only way we could accomodate a reasonable percentage of them would be to do an "all-request" format - which is just not what RP is about.Įven if we don't play your request, that doesn't mean that it doesn't have an impact. At any given time, we have as many as 10,000 - 12,000 people listening to RP. Unless a request that comes in more than a couple of hours before we see it strikes a "wow - we haven't played that for ages, that'd be cool" chord, it probably won't be played.ģ. Keep in mind that a request you make at 9pm or 3am our time (GMT-7) won't reach us until around 8am. We're very careful about the flow of the music from one song to another, and it's not always possible to fit requests into that flow - even if we're not asleep or otherwise occupied (it's just the 2 of us here).Ģ. During most of the day, we're playing music sets that have been previously assembled.
Here's the deal: while we do have the "Request This Song" links on the song info pages, and do actually play requests at least some of the time, you'll find that RP is much less request-focused than some other Internet stations. How Do We Know You're Not Scamming Us Here?
#Radio paradise professional#
In addition, we pay a significant amount of money in royalty fees to music copyright holders ( click here for more info), pay income & business taxes, cover a hefty utility bill, utilize professional accounting & technical services, and all of the other expenses that go along with running a business. We maintain clusters of servers in several locations: our audio stream sources and control systems are located at a data center in San Diego, CA our stream distribution, web & database database servers are in New York City we have a fully redundant library backup & backup stream source in Santa Cruz, CA the "master control system" for the station (aka Bill's Macbook Pro) is here in Paradise, CA (or wherever we happen to be) and we maintain stream servers in New York, Dallas, San Diego, Washington, DC and London.
#Radio paradise software#
We use professional-grade audio equipment and computer automation software and have redundant systems and Internet connections to reduce downtime and outages. While it's possible to start an Internet radio station as a hobby, using just a home computer, a few MP3 files, and a cheap DSL connection, that's not how we do things here.
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