Bunzel Media Strategies President Reed Bunzel criticized SoundExchange...
Bunzel Media Strategies President Reed Bunzel criticized SoundExchange President Michael Huppe for blaming FM radio for declining record sales, in a blog post (http://bit.ly/1jyYbas) Friday. “What Huppe -- and his fellow label execs in denial -- fail to accept is…
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that the recorded music industry has used the terrestrial radio industry as its primary promotion and marketing platform since the 1950s, without paying a penny,” he said. “Performance fees, blanket licensing, uneven playing fields, and ‘artist’s fair shares'” is “another discussion entirely,” he said. Terrestrial radio “is in no way responsible for the tumult that the recorded music industry” is experiencing, said Bunzel. SoundExchange didn’t comment by our deadline.