[a fool in paradise]

There are also concerns among talk radio stations that play bumper music. They already pay (Rush will attest to this) but this allows them to double dip.

You don’t need to play a whole song to get paid. Never did. In the 1940s a band on radio (filling in a moment during a comedy radio show) would play cues from different songs to keep them in the “hit parade”.

[buccaneer81]

There are also concerns among talk radio stations that play bumper music. They already pay (Rush will attest to this)

The best of free enterprise. Rush wants "My City Was Gone" badly enough to pay Chrissie Hynde $500,000 a year, and Hynde turns around and donates the money to PETA. Everybody gets what they want.

[dennisw]

The Democrats bail out newspapers like what just happened in Washington State but they have it in for radio, talk and otherwise.

Clear Channel is conservative and owns the most radio stations and syndicates some talk show hosts too (I think)