"H Glazer" wrote in message
So how does streaming make bottom-line sense now when it didn't three and
a
half years ago, when hundreds of stations pulled their signals to avoid
having to pay additional fees to stream ads that used unionized talent?
Are
CC and Infinity scrubbing their webcasts of such ads?


Apparently so. If you listen to WBZ radio on the 'net, you hear Mayor
Menino, ads for the Red Cross, PSAs, etc.

Also, the broadcast industry ran away from the 'net, possibly fearing it,
not understanding it, or a combination of both.

Kinda like the motion picture industry - they feared television, they
feared pay TV, they feared cable TV (as did a lot of the broadcast industry
for awhile), they feared the VCR, of all things. Some of these "fads"
turned out to be their best friends, and their best hope for survival!
They were just too stupid to realize it at the time!