KRUI Package

KRUI

Package 1

Briana O’Neill

3/25/10

Anchor on camera:

THE PERFORMANCE RIGHTS ACT WAS INTRODUCED TO U.S. CONGRESS LAST YEAR. AS IT CONTINUES TO FACE DEBATE LOCAL STATIONS LIKE K-R-U-I CONSIDER WHAT IT WOULD MEAN FOR THEM.

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“Hello Iowa City, you’re listening to 89.7 KRUI your sound alternative.”

The pending Performance Rights Act may prevent University of Iowa campus radio station KRUI from playing the alternative music that listeners know and love.

The Performance Rights Act also known as the Performance Tax, would grant performers equal rights to royalties and establish a flat annual fee for broadcast stations.

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Briana O’Neill

briana-oneill@uiowa.edu

(SOT)

“If the Performance Tax passes then radio stations like KRUI would be required to pay a fee for every song every time it plays on the air.”

Because small stations like KRUI are non-profit they have less money to pay artists royalties. This might mean your favorite bands and others like them disappear from radio stations altogether.

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Nathan Gould

KRUI General Manager

(SOT)

“If I’m having to pay for each artist that I’m playing I might have to cut my playlist down to a confined number. Which obviously there’d be a lack of diversity in music.”

Along with the threat of ruining small radio stations like KRUI, critics of the bill believe they shouldn’t have to pay to play because airtime offers artists free promotion.

1:06 CG

Alex Rich

KRUI News Director

(SOT)

“I really think that radio does more for the musician than any other outlets. And I don’t think that we – the radio station- should have to pay for it. Because in the end we’re helping them out.”

This is Briana O’Neill, Daily Iowan TV.

1:25 Tape ends

Anchor on camera:

THE PERFORMANCE RIGHTS ACT IS STILL BEING DISCUSSED IN CONGRESS.