in somewhat sad news...

[ceagle]

While showing a customer some musical websites yesterday, I discovered that my favorite hawaiian internet radio site Voice of Hawaii has ceased broadcasting... ;_;

In an effort to remain legal, fees from ever-growing groups and ever-expanding laws without consideration to reality, have pushed them beyond the ability to run the radio station. *sigh*
I haven't been able to listen as much as I used to, but knowing it's not there anymore still hurts.....

Comments

[loveyouenola.livejournal.com]

:( *hugs* It's sad when the things we love move on. Happy memories of listening and enjoying can never be taken away though.

[genmaicha.livejournal.com]

Yeah...that legislation imposed on internet radio stations is just insane and completely out of touch with reality. It's a very sad thing.

[secret-wolver.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that. **Snugz**

[expandranon.livejournal.com]

There was a time, before the FCC and giant media corporations, when radio was much the same as the internet is today. Anybody with a little spare capital and knowhow could start their own radio station. It wasn't long before moneyed interests who didn't want the little guys in the way and bureaucrats hungry for power reduced it to what we have today. There are broadcast bandwidth issues involved in the story of radio, but the parallels are there. They can't take complete control of the net like they did radio and TV, but the time is coming when most of the content out here will have been filtered through a handful of power brokers before it's released to the rest of us.

[orv.livejournal.com]

In fact, I think part of the problem is the record companies have been unhappy for literally decades with the solution that was eventually imposed on radio. (The composers get royalties, through payments to ASCAP and BMI, but the record labels don't. This was an agreement arrived at in 1923.) They're determined not to make the same mistake with Internet radio, and they may just kill the medium in their zeal to make money off it.

okay, fight fire with fire...

[mammallamadevil.livejournal.com]

we find a beat up boat
we get a cheapo transmitter
we go out just past Catalina
wait a second, I can't say that anymore...the FCC has me on file!...(grin)

my condolences....from the desert to the sea, throughout Southern California, they SHOULD have a Hawaiian program for ze Eagle...

maybe we just need to picket KCRW for some airtime?

MLD

Re: okay, fight fire with fire...

[genecatlow.livejournal.com]

Um, I dunno... we could still do that (just don't tell 'em we're doing it... ^_^)

Re: okay, fight fire with fire...

[mammallamadevil.livejournal.com]

yeah, but I'm chicken...(grin)

MLD

[telbert.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could lobby XM or Sirius to add a Hawaiian music channel to their lineup?