Exactly! (Score 1)

The radio station probably loses money from internet streaming. They have to pay for the software, for the bandwidth (which could be quite a bit, depending on the quality of the feed and the popularity of the station), AND (with the exception of MLB) most radio stations do not charge for the service, offering it free to the listener. So let me get this straight... 1) Radio stations spend quite a bit of money so people (maybe even a lot of people) can listen over the internet through shoutcast/realaudio 2) Radio stations make very little extra, if any, money through this (as there's no Nielsen internet audio survey that counts those listeners) 3) The station broadcasting on the internet requires absolutely ZER0 additional work for the DJ/Actor/Whoever, and only creates more work for the IT department (another expense for the radio station - paying the people to troubleshoot the audio stream) 4) DJs/Unions demand a 300% increase, based on the company taking a loss to do something nice for the listeners... Hmmm.... so it seems that based on the zero amount of extra work that they are doing, and the stations taking a Net loss (pun intended), the DJs Union, etc. are saying that they deserve more money... It makes PERFECT SENSE! *huge roll of eyes*