I don't think we all need to start wearing tin foil hats to protect ourselves from errant radio waves. There are many and varied reasons to utilize w...

Even a better processor doesn't always compensate. Generally music skips occur when the cycles you need aren't there at that moment due to something e...

Dwayne Hickman certainly sounds like the later Rick Nelson (without the overdubbing). Here are some more TV stars who released teen pop singles. Fir...

Oh, and I'm also thinking of launching a sister station. I experimented a little while ago with broadcasting and streaming songs from the acoustic er...

I thought there were zero recordings in the public domain in the U.S. as well. But look here: Public Domain Info Apparently, all sound recordings re...

<p style="text-align: left;">Forums are for comments. Blogs are mainly one way communication. Both have their place.</p>

When I ran Artisan Radio on Bowen Island, even under BETS, I had a SOCAN non-commercial license. You pay 1.9% of your gross operating costs (minimum ...

Just a sidenote. As you've discovered, Mark, SOCAN and the other Canadian licensing bodies do not require licensing for over-the-air BETS (& pres...

If you do the research (finding out who the music creators are, when they died, etc.), very little music of the 50s & 60s would be in the public d...