Monogogo.com

Media Release

 

April 8, 2016

Dear Lis­ten­ers:

Thank you for your sup­port over the last 4 years. On Jan­u­ary 1, 2016 the Copy­right Review Board (CRB) a three-judge pan­el appoint­ed by the Unit­ed States Copy­right Office hand­ed down their harsh 2016–2020 ‘pure play’ music roy­al­ty increase for satel­lite, ter­res­tri­al, and inter­net radio broadcasting.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the rul­ing exclud­ed exten­sion of the Small Webcaster’s Act, a spe­cial leg­isla­tive pro­vi­sion which allowed the excel­lent broad­cast­ing you have come to enjoy over Monogogo.com Glob­al Radio Network.

The new roy­al­ty rates cov­er­ing music play has pushed 1,000s of inter­net radio sta­tions to cease broad­cast­ing under the rules of pow­er­ful broad­cast­ing pro­fes­sion­al orga­ni­za­tions, being the Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Authors, Com­posers, and Pub­lish­ers (ASCAP), Broad­cast Music Indus­try (BMI), Soci­ety of Euro­pean Stage Authors and Com­posers (SESAC), Soci­ety of Com­posers, Authors and Music Pub­lish­ers (SOCAN), and gov­ern­ing roy­al­ty rate col­lec­tion orga­ni­za­tion SoundEx­change (SEx).

Present­ly, Monogogo.com Glob­al Radio Net­work has been forced to mod­i­fy its reg­u­lar pro­gram­ming from a talk, music, and infor­ma­tion plat­form to an all-talk for­mat for the fore­see­able future. We have con­sult­ed with our legal rep­re­sen­ta­tives as to our next course of action. We are in the process of secur­ing direct licens­ing from each of the per­for­mance orga­ni­za­tions to estab­lish our inter­net radio streams as a full com­mer­cial entity.

Over the com­ing days, we will be updat­ing our web­sites with a new inter­ac­tive design, excel­lent arti­cles, infor­ma­tion, and enlarged adver­tis­ing affil­i­a­tion. Please, con­tin­ue to lis­ten to our streams via Tunein.com, ITunes.com, and Robex.com.

Please, con­tin­ue to lis­ten to our streams via Tunein.com, ITunes.com, and Robex.com. We thank you for your lis­ten­er­ship and look for­ward to grow­ing our excel­lent broad­cast programming.

Monogogo.com Glob­al Radio Network