[78-L] Smallest Transcription Disc?

[Michael Biel]

  On 8/6/2010 10:45 AM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> Good point, but just because someone might have become an ASCAP member
> doesn't negate that some of his music is represented by a performance
> organization other than ASCAP,

Back in the late 70s when I would take classes on tours of NYC media, 
and one year we went to both ASCAP and BMI.  BMI calculated payments on 
the basis of lists that a sampling of stations compiled of a couple of 
weeks of their programming.  They asked stations to list ALL music 
played and not to rely on the record label to determine if it is BMI or 
not.  Composers or their publishers change affiliation all the time, 
they said.  They have a new list every week.   By the way, ASCAP figured 
from tapes of radio stations provided by a team of monitoring.  They had 
a roomful of TUNE EXPERTS who identified the songs no matter what the DJ 
said or did not say!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com