Pandora's Radio Station Acquisition ASCAP Trying to Block

NEW YORK - July 31, 2013 - PRLog -- The next big thing from Google is Chromecast, a Google TV side product. You can listen to music, watch TV shows, movies and more on your mobile phone, tablet, computer or TV. It comes with Netflix and Pandora Radio as well as YouTube capabilities all built-in on the original product, all you have to do is plug Chromecast into your TV or computer and it will connect via wi-fi and "send videos and more from your smartphone, tablet or laptop to your TV with the press of a button," according the announcement from Google.

"We are reviewing the filing and will respond per the standard procedure," Pandora said in response to ASCAP's complaint with the FCC. "We have confidence in the process and strongly believe in our legal position. Our purchase of KXMZ will better serve the community by offering a broader selection of music and artists customized to local tastes. We look forward to providing an enhanced listening experience to the community."

In addition to the complaint, ASCAP updated its website with several facts regarding Pandora and how much it actually makes from songwriters – Pandora isn't the "victim" as it portrays itself to be. These facts include a reported $126 million in first quarter revenue in May 2013, every 1,000 plays of a song is only worth 8 cents, and so on.

Recording Artist with Popular Statoins on Pandora like Young Dread say "This process will be corrected". Young Dread feels confident everything will be resolved to be benfit us as artists. "Pandora has been a revulotionary platform that continue to change the music industry" Young Dread explains..."I will always have the hottest if not the hottest music on Pandora" Young Dread concludes.

iHeartRadio is completely different, pulling terrestrial broadcasting from around the world onto the Internet – stations that already pay royalty fees. Pandora doesn't re-broadcast, but instead allows users to create their own "stations", thus its royalty fees are understandably higher.

Some people feel as if ASCAP failed to provide required transparency in identifying songs ASCAP claims it can license to Pandora. ASCAP also supposedly created a scheme by which "member-publishers can withdraw their catalogs from ASCAP's license for Pandora but allow them to remain for everyone else, including competitors like iHeartRadio."