WOXY Gone for Good??

[ggw]

Yes, even the internet broadcast may be gone in two weeks:
 
 http://www.woxy.com/update.shtml

[mankie]

bummer, Rhett's "free" internet radio will be gone.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I never listened to that station anyway.
 
 I did try awhile ago, but my work was blocking the station, just as they do KEXP.
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
  bummer, Rhett's "free" internet radio will be gone.

[Jaguär]

Blame it on the fucking RIAA!!! Ultimately, this is their doing.
 
 From WOXY's site:
 
 "Believe it or not, it would cost more to run this Internet radio station (with half the staff) than it ever did to run our terrestrial radio station. The main reason is the costs of music performance royalties and bandwidth for our audio streaming. Unlike traditional AM and FM radio where the cost of operating the transmitter is fixed no matter how many people listen, on the Internet our costs go up for each additional person that tunes in. With our online audience approaching 50,000 unique listeners and growing every month, the already substantial costs continue to rise with no significant revenue stream to pay for them."
 
 Any of you who don't understand what the RIAA has done in it's efforts to supposedly protect the artists needs to understand that stations like WOXY via the internet are sometimes crucial to a band being able to be heard by anyone outside of their local venues. Lord knows, Clear Crap, Infinity and MTV certainly won't be there to give them a helping hand!
 
 Though I did not listen to WOXY, this greatly pains me to see this happen. More and more stations are going off-line because of the RIAA and the monopolies are taking more and more control while only allowing us to hear the crap that they will allow us to hear. No, the artists were not being ripped off via interent radio stations, as the RIAA would have you believe. Instead, they were receiving much needed cheap or free advertising and we, the listeners, were buying their music.

[kosmo vinyl]

Isn't it ironic that in order to webcast you have to pay a fee to SoundExchange, the organization setup by the RIAA to collect royalities for the record companies.  This is in addition to the fees collected by ASCAP, BMI, etc on behalf of the songwriters.  
 
 But in the broadcast world there is no fee collected by Record companies just the songwriter royalities. In fact the record companies are the ones paying to get thier music on the air via promotional consideration.  
 
 I'll bet money collected by SoundExchange goes right back into fighting file sharing  and the artists see none of it....

[bellenseb]

It's unbelievable how small internet radio got screwed. Sure, artists should be compensated, but these stations also promote bands and their CDs and tours, often with handy "buy the record!" links next to the song listing. It's time for the Jenny Toomey March on Washington.

[kosmo vinyl]

personally i don't have a problem with paying the songwriters for the use of the song in an internet broadcast via ascap, bmi, etc.  it's the fee now being charged on behalf the record company that really knocks a small broadcaster out of the water...

[bohllc]

As a farewell, WOXY is playing the best of 97 A-Z starting today.  A soundtrack of their life if you will.  It's a shame such a great thing is forced to end.

[ggw]

Originally posted by red:
  As a farewell, WOXY is playing the best of 97 A-Z starting today.  A soundtrack of their life if you will.  It's a shame such a great thing is forced to end.

I've been enjoying it immensely
 
 12:01 pm A Million Miles Away Plimsouls Everywhere At Once
 12:05 pm A Modern Way Of Letting Go Idlewild The Remote Part
 12:09 pm A Praise Chorus Jimmy Eat World Jimmy Eat World
 12:13 pm A Punchup At A Wedding Radiohead Hail To The Thief
 12:18 pm A Question Of Time Depeche Mode Black Celebration
 12:22 pm A Shot In The Arm Wilco Summerteeth
 12:29 pm A Small Victory Faith No More Angel Dust
 12:33 pm A Song For The Lovers Richard Ashcroft Alone With Everybody
 12:37 pm A Sort Of Homecoming U2 The Unforgettable Fire
 12:44 pm A Sorta Fairytale Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk
 12:48 pm DISP:WEEKEND REPORT W/B-2-DA-JAY
 12:49 pm A Spy In The House Of Love Db's Like This
 12:54 pm A Town Called Malice The Jam The Gift
 12:57 pm About A Girl Nirvana Mtv Unplugged In New York
 01:00 pm Accident Waiting To Happen Billy Bragg Don't Try This At Home
 01:03 pm Accident Waiting To Happen Poster Children New World Record
 01:08 pm Accidents Will Happen Elvis Costello Armed Forces
 01:13 pm Acquiesce Oasis The Masterplan
 01:17 pm Across The Universe Fiona Apple Pleasantville O.s.t.
 01:21 pm Across The Universe Rufus Wainwright I Am Sam O.s.t.
 01:28 pm Action Fans Help Us! Paris, Texas Action Fans Help Us! Ep
 01:31 pm Action Figure Party Action Figure Party Action Figure Party
 01:35 pm Adagio For Strings William Orbit Pieces In A Modern Style
 01:40 pm Addicts Of Communication Randy The Human Atom Bombs
 01:42 pm Afrika Shox Leftfield Rhythm And Stealth
 01:45 pm Afro The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Extra Width
 01:51 pm Against The 70's Mike Watt Ballhog Or Tugboat?
 01:54 pm Ahead Wire The Ideal Copy
 02:00 pm Ainâ??t Goin To Goa A3 Exile On Cold Harbor Lane
 02:04 pm Ainâ??t Got Me Paul Westerberg Eventually
 02:07 pm Ainâ??t That Enough Teenage Fanclub Songs From Northern Britain
 02:11 pm Airport Karate Some Boots
 02:16 pm Aisha Death In Vegas Feat Iggy Pop The Contino Sessions
 02:21 pm Alan Is A Cowboy Killer McLusky McLusky Do Dallas

[markie]

So does anyone have any good recommendations for a WOXY replacement. I will miss its lite indie fare immensley. I guess it was the first place I heard a whole load of bands and songs I now really love.....
 
 Metric and the Tyde are two faves that come to mind.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
  So does anyone have any good recommendations for a WOXY replacement. I will miss its lite indie fare immensley. I guess it was the first place I heard a whole load of bands and songs I now really love.....
 
 Metric and the Tyde are two faves that come to mind.

www.3wk.com - may include too much wank for you, as if you could ever get enough of wanking
 
 www.kexp.org - not as strictly indie as woxy was
 
 but you knew those two didnt you?

[ggw]

KEXP seems a natural choice.
 
 Some people have been talking about some indie station on Netscape Radio.  I haven't heard it.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  KEXP seems a natural choice.
 
 Some people have been talking about some indie station on Netscape Radio.  I haven't heard it.

just took a look, there seem to be 4 or 5 indie stations on netscape radio

[bellenseb]

Netscape radio (www.spinner.com) has:
 indie rock
 new indie
 indie rock mix
 indie rock grrls
 melancholia (mostly indie folk/pop)
 
 Great, great programming that XM should pay attention to.
 
 Unfortunately unless you're on AOLBroadband you can only listen for a few hours a day.

[kosmo vinyl]

you can also try exploring shoutcast.com  which is what the iTunes radio feature is actually a front end for.  iTunes radio just filters out some of the 6000+ server streams, so there is loads more to checkout at shoutcast.
 
 live365.com has several niche channels as well, but one has to pay four dollars a month to listen without inserted audio ads, etc.