StreamAudio Announces Complete Data Collection for RIAA Royalties

StreamAudio Announces Complete Data Collection for RIAA Royalties

NEW YORK, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- StreamAudio completes development to comply with the new RIAA royalty data collection of "listeners-by-song."

StreamAudio, a leading provider for streaming radio stations' programming, announced today that it has completed six months of testing on a new feature that provides complete data collection for calculation and payment under the new RIAA royalty requirements. Previously, royalties were based on how many "aggregate tuning hours" a station streamed on the Internet. The new rules require that radio stations now capture and report this data by song (i.e., by performance).

Darren Harle, President and General Manager of StreamAudio, said, "This new data definition and collection requirement by the RIAA basically requires stations to record the number of listeners for each song played in a given month and to aggregate this data at the end of each month across all songs. Compared to the previous definition, this new requirement expands the data collection and data storage requirement for the new 'performances' by a factor of up to 50 times that of the recent past."

Brian Rozelle, Director of Technology for Emmis Interactive, said, "Without this information of listener hours by song to calculate and pay our RIAA royalties, Emmis Communications might have been forced to discontinue streaming its 16 stations that stream now. We are very pleased that StreamAudio was able to provide this capability to us in record time; and with this capability we can continue to stream with the peace of mind of knowing that we are conforming to the RIAA royalty requirements."

"Radio groups that we have informed of this new capability are greatly relieved that StreamAudio has developed the capability to collect this information and provide it for each and every individual station and/or in aggregate to radio groups," said Paul Distefano, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for StreamAudio. "To our knowledge, StreamAudio is the only streaming vendor in the U.S. that has announced this capability. With an installed base of over 500 radio stations and commercial delivery of over 12 million streaming hours per month, we were forced to install a new server farm just to handle this new volume of data."

About StreamAudio

StreamAudio (formally ChainCast Networks) provides cost-effective Internet streaming for radio media groups. StreamAudio offers an industry-leading list of streaming features and software, such as live and on-demand streaming, ad replacement/insertion, stream protection, podcasting, program blackout, data collection, and RIAA royalty reporting. Its clients include over 40 media groups such as: Cox Radio, Cumulus, Emmis, Salem, Simmons, and Morris. StreamAudio provides streaming services for 500 radio stations, serving over 12 million streaming hours. StreamAudio was founded in 1999 and is based in San Jose, California at 4020 Moorpark, Suite 206, San Jose, CA 95117. Please visit http://www.streamaudio.com/.

About Emmis
Emmis Communications -- Great Media, Great People, Great Service(R)

Emmis is an Indianapolis-based diversified media firm with radio broadcasting and magazine publishing operations. Emmis owns 21 FM and 2 AM domestic radio stations serving the nation's largest markets of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as St. Louis, Austin, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Ind. In May 2005, Emmis announced its intent to seek strategic alternatives for its 16 television stations, and has announced the sale of 15 of them. Emmis also owns a radio network, international radio stations, regional and specialty magazines, an interactive business and ancillary businesses in broadcast sales.

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Source: StreamAudio

CONTACT: Paul Distefano, Vice President of Sales and Marketing of
StreamAudio, +1-408-234-8348; or Kate Snedeker, Director, Corporate
Communications of Emmis, +1-317-684-6576, kate@emmis.com

Web site:

http://www.streamaudio.com/

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