>Can you believe what Tom Joyner is doing on his morning show?

> Tom Joyner is playing one particular song almost every day on his radio show as if it was brand new. The music you hear on nationally syndicated radio shows are pretty much the same; however at times those shows, dominated by the likes of Tom Joyner, Steve Harvey, and Michael Baisden, will occasionally go off chart or totally ignore the predetermined list of new songs available to radio called “adds.” You will get more music variety on their shows versus what’s played during the rest of the day on most Urban AC stations across the country. Maybe because Joyner, … Continue reading >Can you believe what Tom Joyner is doing on his morning show?

>Performance Tax Opposed by Small Market Radio Stations

> Last week, Black broadcasters met in Washington, D.C. to discuss the possibility that a Performance Tax would cause them to go into bankruptcy. Now many small market broadcasters are facing the same dilemma, if the proposed tax is put into place by congress, you might see many stations simply go dark. As it stands now, Sirius XM satellite radio; Radio stations that stream online; Internet music services like AOL Radio, Last FM, Imeem, Pandora, and Finetune; and music download sites like iTunes, pay the artist a royalty fee. Terrestrial radio has never paid the artists or performers for the … Continue reading >Performance Tax Opposed by Small Market Radio Stations