{"id":33749,"date":"2025-02-19T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/radio-stations-may-soon-have-to-pay-artists-for-playing-their-music\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:25:48","slug":"radio-stations-may-soon-have-to-pay-artists-for-playing-their-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/radio-stations-may-soon-have-to-pay-artists-for-playing-their-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio stations may soon have to pay artists for playing their music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years artists have benefitted from the exposure provided by AM and FM stations playing their music. The stations have licensing agreements that pay royalties to music publishers and songwriters to play that music \u2014 but the performers are left out of that equation. Now, recording artists are rallying together to change that, led by iconic R&amp;B band Boyz II Men who went to Capitol Hill to meet with some of the most powerful members of Congress. NBC\u2019s Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years artists have benefitted from the exposure provided by AM and FM stations playing their music. The stations have licensing agreements that pay royalties to music publishers and songwriters to play that music \u2014 but the performers are left out of that equation. Now, recording artists are rallying together to change that, led by &#8230; <a title=\"Radio stations may soon have to pay artists for playing their music\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/radio-stations-may-soon-have-to-pay-artists-for-playing-their-music\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Radio stations may soon have to pay artists for playing their music\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}