[grc] Newbie LPFM seeks help and counsel....

[Susan Raybuck]

Lanny,

Remember you'll need to have the copyrights angle covered which you can do by a membership in ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. If you can't afford all three, you may want to just run the music from one of the three. 

Streaming rights are a separate issue. When we were trying to figure out if we could afford it, a guy I talked to at SoundExchange hinted that BMI might be a good one to start with.

We now have all three, but only for over-the-air content. We are waiting on the technology that can pull the metadata on each song/composer/performance rights and help us report it before trying to play a full line-up of music online on our stream. Can't tie up our limited volunteers with that tedious task.

Susan

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Susan Raybuck, Acting Station Manager
Wimberley Valley Radio • KWVH 94.1 FM










On Mar 10, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Donna Dibianco via grc wrote:

Hi Lanny,      Most start-up stations have a "load-in" week. That's where the DJs and volunteers load in whatever music they have on hand. It's a great way for DJs to get to know each other.      If your limited on crew at the moment, you can start loading in as much as your core-group has. Don't worry if it's only a couple hundred songs. If you use the scheduler initially, that 100 songs can take hours to air and repeat. Most listeners will not listen the same way you or your core group will, so it will work for a good month or so.     I worked with a full-power station who only wanted immediately local artists...they had about 28 CDs, we loaded them up and ran them randomly for the first 3-4 weeks while I trained the first group of DJs. It worked like a charm.
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   On Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:22 AM, Lanny Cotler via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:


SPOILER ALERT!

Here comes a newbie question.

Is there a way to gather music from friends and colleagues, playlists of music, programmed to replay in the many slots of a 24/7 LPFM station?

That sounded confusing. Let me try it again:

We’re starting an LPFM in my small, rural hometown of Willits, CA. I’m the General Manager for KLLG-KP, 97.9 Mhz. 100 watts.

From the get-go, I want to go on the air filling every hour, 24/7, using automation software (considering Megaseg Pro). So we need lots of music. Of course, as we develop our local programming, we’ll slip our produced shows into one of the 168 slot-hours in the week.

Now I think you know what I want.

Anyone venture to mentor me in this?

Thanks!

Lanny





KLLG ~ 97.9 FM
Lanny Cotler, Director
Little Lake Grange Radio
Willits Hometown Low Power Radio
1517 Casteel Dr., Willits, CA 95490
707-367-1812
LANNY at KLLG.ORG




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