[Fmpro] ASCAP/BMI payments

[LesHurdle]

This is all very interesting...............
On Jul 31, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Mark Northam wrote:

> Music in advertising makes up over 50% of the minutes of music on  
> the air on
> television, according to survey published in Doug Wood's organizations
> newsletter some years ago. I doubt the number has gotten smaller,  
> probably
> larger. What percentage of the distribution do YOU think they  
> deserve, these
> writers who write the majority of music on television?

Er hum.........  please correct me if I'm wrong [it has happened ;-) }

cpa  51%
Themes 20%
'score 40+%????  [can't remember]
FEATURE........ 2%

I'll bet nowadays 'Feature' payments [especially for songs used as  
'score' ] amounts to more than 2% of the market....... how much has  
that 'sucked' out of score payments.......... also bear in mind  song  
when used as a jingle/commercial is paid at 12% of a feature instead  
of the usual 3%.......... do you thank the songs might just turn up  
in the surveys more than inst commercial music..........  h/s !
>
> ASCAP pays music for advertising perhaps 10-15% of the television
> distribution by slashing the value of this music with the stroke of  
> a pen,
> while artificially inflating the value of background vocals on  
> television by
> paying them as features by default. Score composers are somewhere  
> in the
> middle of all this.

BROADCASTERS DO NOT DIFFERENTIATE.......... ask Doug Wood, he'll tell  
you.

BMI payments are worse !!!!!!

L