Those HD advocates have gone and done it.
As Kurt Hanson reported in RAIN recently:
The ASCAP has proposed to the Radio Music License Committee that HD2 radio pay a music license royalty. Broadcasters maintain that since they're generating no revenue from their HD2 channels, a royalty isn't justified. In making their case, the ASCAP cited research, long ago debunked, that predicted 30 million HD receivers in the market by 2012.
It looks like the record industry is going to stuff the braggadocio that the HD Alliance calls promotion down their throats.
Hell, if I saw the radio industry bragging about HD's 30&hellip
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