[cma-l] PRS fees

[Clive Glover]

Julian

Did they accept Radio 2 as your choice. Last time I looked it wasn't a commercial station!

Clive Glover

Radio Verulam, St Albans

On 23 Sep 2011, at 11:57, Julian Mellor wrote:

> Fully agree with that.  We ended up tagging ourselves to Radio 2 - but  
> it was a painful choice and really just the best of bad options.  It's  
> better than the alternative of logging every track, but the idea of  
> paying to the foundation sounds ideal.
> 
> Julian
> 
> PS  The thing I really hate is the quarterly returns for PRS/PPL -  
> we're so far below the threshold it's hardly worth measuring, but  
> every three months they want the paperwork filled in (which reminds  
> me). Grrrrr.
> 
> 
> On 23 Sep 2011, at 11:33, Ed Baxter wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> The PRS suggests community stations "choose up to three commercial
>> radio stations that your playlist is similar to" with a view to them
>> allocating money to composers featured on said stations. I wonder
>> where this idea orginated. Might it not be apposite that the fees
>> community stations pay to the PRS are allocated to the PRS for Music
>> Foundation, which as a charity and an innovative supporter of new
>> music shares many of the aims and aspirations of community media
>> platforms.
>> None of the commercial stations play anything like the music that
>> Resonance plays. Nor do we have "playlists". We favour music not
>> represented by any other stations in the UK. It is important to us
>> that PRS fees are going to the correct kind of songwriters and
>> composers. I see no relevance or point in sharing them among the kind
>> of nostalgic MOR artistes and the ragbag purveyors of reactionary
>> claptrap generally favoured by UK commercial stations.
>> I suspect this will elicit a groan among the people at PRS, who like
>> everyone else surely want an easy life, but wonder what others in CMA
>> think.
>> Yours
>> Ed
>> -- 
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>> Year"
>> Runner-up, PRSF New Music Award 2008
>> As featured in the Independent on Sunday's Happy List
>> Ed Baxter
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