RadioTime is using your content to support its own earnings and I bet they didn't ask your permission to distribute your product, did they?
I can tell you will 100% certainty that RadioTime didn’t ask our permission to distribute our company’s content. When I went to RadioTime’s site, they claim,
We use the StreamAudio system to stream our radio stations. Their propriety stream protection effort keeps most hijackers from stealing and redistributing your stream. RadioTime scabs on to the StreamAudio client’s stream by linking directly to the player URL and completely ruins the look of the player and the experience for the listener.
RadioTime is a for profit company, so what’s in it for them? Lots of page views. They sell tile ads on their website and each page has one. That’s a lot of impressions. They’ve even got a button to donate to them using your PayPal account.
I suppose I shouldn’t be too critical, the industry’s own Radio Heard Here is using the RadioTime tuner at the top of their page, and yeah it’s pretty cool. Except it has a tendency to skip radio stations. I don’t think the Radio Heard Here people have figured it out.
I really don’t mind RadioTime linking to our sites and providing some basic information about the station, but providing a direct link to our stream without permission is unethical. Its tough for small to medium markets stations to justify providing online content and when you start to add up the cost of providing your local content to a worldwide audience, it becomes a little troubling. A local broadcaster just doesn’t need it and I think RadioTime knows that or they would have asked permission.
What do you think would happen if they decided to distribute NFL or MLB content without permission?
I am calling on RadioTime to ask permission to distribute radio’s content. I’ll grant permission if they’ll pay their fair share of our streaming fees. Otherwise, we’ll be just fine without them.
I can tell you will 100% certainty that RadioTime didn’t ask our permission to distribute our company’s content. When I went to RadioTime’s site, they claim,
“The new tuner can cross the globe to offer broadcasters a global market and users an infinite selection of new and exciting content.”Right... Why do I care whether someone in any place other than my local market can hear my content? It does nothing but cost the company extra money in streaming bandwidth and royalties. Oh, and it also falsely runs up the page count.
We use the StreamAudio system to stream our radio stations. Their propriety stream protection effort keeps most hijackers from stealing and redistributing your stream. RadioTime scabs on to the StreamAudio client’s stream by linking directly to the player URL and completely ruins the look of the player and the experience for the listener.
RadioTime is a for profit company, so what’s in it for them? Lots of page views. They sell tile ads on their website and each page has one. That’s a lot of impressions. They’ve even got a button to donate to them using your PayPal account.
I suppose I shouldn’t be too critical, the industry’s own Radio Heard Here is using the RadioTime tuner at the top of their page, and yeah it’s pretty cool. Except it has a tendency to skip radio stations. I don’t think the Radio Heard Here people have figured it out.I really don’t mind RadioTime linking to our sites and providing some basic information about the station, but providing a direct link to our stream without permission is unethical. Its tough for small to medium markets stations to justify providing online content and when you start to add up the cost of providing your local content to a worldwide audience, it becomes a little troubling. A local broadcaster just doesn’t need it and I think RadioTime knows that or they would have asked permission.
What do you think would happen if they decided to distribute NFL or MLB content without permission?
I am calling on RadioTime to ask permission to distribute radio’s content. I’ll grant permission if they’ll pay their fair share of our streaming fees. Otherwise, we’ll be just fine without them.