CASH MONEY (Unions A-OK) (Score 1)

This is the deal. You're fooling yourself if you think that radiostations do anything (including netcast) if they're not making money, or if it's not a publicity stunt to get more listeners (and higher ad revenues) thus more money.
This is CAPITALISIM people, profit drives the world. I can't believe how many posters here don't realize that DJ's are getting screwed out of their share.
Ads that run on the net cost the advertisers, just like the ads over the traditional airwaves. The station makes money just like it does over traditional airwaves, SURPIRSE SURPRISE, talent had to do something drastic to get their share of the new dough that the radiostations hit the advertisers up for.
(I think the ny post had misleading text that seemed to suggest that this wasn't exactly the case)

"On top of extra payments - some of which could be retroactive - stations are also faced with the bookkeeping nightmare of keeping track of who's owed what for as many as 24 30- or 60-second commercials each and every hour."

Who's owed? The fucking station that's who! This is how advertising works. That sentence should read who /owes/ what. And even if the article is talking about the talent that made the commercial not the voice that announced the song before it, So what, you're making money off "brand enhancement" (puuuuuk) so pay your talent already. With out a union they'd be just another "joe 12 pack getting the royal screw job" Shortsightedness has turned a bunch of open sourcerors (and affiliated geeks) into fucking corporate mouthpeices.
How can you be Anti-Union and the bitch about corporate bohemoths? The AFTRA's not anti net, they just want their share of the corporate profits.