From The First State, A First Shot Against Music First
Written Jun. 20, 2007 by Sean Ross in Content with 1 Comment
It was inevitable. As the war between radio and the music industry over a performance royalty heats up, a high-school dance station has announced a boycott of the artists in the musicFirst coalition. WMPH (Super 91.7) Wilmington, Del., has announced its intention to "[say] no to this insatiable greed" by banning those artists until they "[quit] the unfair and ungrateful coalition." It's not hard for a musically aggressive dance station to give up Isaac Hayes, Gloria Estefan, and Celine Dion, but the list of musicFirst artists does also include Ne-Yo, Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, and the Pussycat Dolls.
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The young broadcasters at "Delaware's Feel Good Station" are to be commended. Hopefully some commercial broadcasters can dredge up the courage to take a stand. It's not particularly engaging on-air fodder, but the would play very well on websites and blogs.
And listening online to WMPH 91.7 for the past half-hour I have to congratulate Mr. Dantinne and the kids on putting together a great high-school station. I'm way out of the demo but could listen all day. Dance On!