We have heard and read the paranoia, even in this group.

One friend of mine who worked in radio told me his management was paranoid
over "dead air" or even breaking format in the evening, because a listener
might change the station and never put it back on theirs during morning
drive.
Would this argument make sense?

- they want you to listen in the car -- AND THE OFFICE -- and they don't
want you listening to something else in the office. There are a
considerable number of stations that DON'T have the union-written commercial
situation, and they've been streaming. You might find one of those
stations, put it on in your car, and never go back to the station that is
the internet fraidy-cat.

- if they don't go after the internet crowd, someone else will.

Finally - since streaming stations "drop in" non-AFTRA PSAs, could it be
possible that they would "drop in" non-AFTRA commercial spots? And those
bring in money.....