How do Radio Stations play songs? Do they have the license for every song?

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Are some songs cheaper?? Do you just buy a huge license and some company distributes all that money?

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Even when I was at the mock college radio station (didn’t actually have a radio transmitter, just played over the ceiling speakers), we kept logs of what we played. I suspect this was training, but I’m not certain… it may have counted as public performance.

The gym I went to played the radio or various CDs in its paying-client spaces. It had a SOCAN (the Canadian music-licensing organization) sticker on the door, so they must have had some sort of license.

Even some borrowed videos from the library have markings allowing public performance. The rest are “private home use only”.

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