Demented podcasters sound the retreat

Podcast: Mad Music Comedy Zone
Date: April 26, 2008
Title: It’s D.T.’s birthday!
Download the show: Episode 08-17 (Streaming only. Free registration required.)

The Mad Music Archive has seen a shakeup of late, with ill-advised podcasts removed in favor of ASCAP- and BMI-friendly streaming audio, and comedy music host David Tanny crawling back to his bitterly abandoned Live365 network.

Seems these guys can’t shake their Weird Al addiction. And now that they’ve acknowledged copyright law, which requires permissions and hefty mechanical royalties for the right to offer protected content in download form, the short-lived podcasters can only retreat to the stunted medium of Internet radio.

Can’t say they weren’t warned.

The lone surviving, law-abiding podcaster on the MMA is Tyrone Kahn, whose Kahn Man’s Comedy Corner has featured (with the occasional early misstep) podsafe or otherwise approved content from the start. Tyrone’s show also remains available in streaming format on the MMA.

Wayne Ross learns the cost of love

“We’ve been researching the legal side of podcasting and the advice you gave [Tyrone, for whom I serve as a podcast advisor] was spot-on,” writes MMA proprietor Wayne Ross. “We’ve had to switch to streaming-only on my shows since the listeners want the old fav’s (Weird Al, Allan Sherman, Monty Python, etc.). With all the royalties we have to pay we may have to make some major changes in the coming year. We’ll see.”

I proudly acknowledge my contribution to the cause, and in the same spirit of magnanimity, accept the recent Dementiamania Song of the Week honor (shared with The Lion Eats Tonight by Art Paul Schlosser and Spookster and the Scaremenots) awarded my own People I Know by listeners of David’s Mad Music Comedy Zone.

DT, who’s probably sick of both songs, didn’t play either one on the show, instead substituting Happy Birthday by Weird Al Yankovic, in honor of Dave’s own birthday.

DT rebuilds his empire

Dave’s announced a slate of shows for his revived DFSX Radio, including MMCZ, an all-new, one-hour (and podsafe) I Still Get Demented Podcast Edition and an upcoming Dave’s Top 10.

Meanwhile, Wayne’s laid out an accounting of his streaming radio expenses in the MMA forums. The site remains a labor of love and a service to the Demented music community spawned by Dr. Demento, who still struggles along with his own streaming broadcast. I’m sure both would appreciate your support.

Dementiamania Song of the Week  (1:07).

We get a mention on David Tanny’s San Diego Radio News for May 22, 2008.

Posted in: Dementia at 5:52 pm Tue, May 20, 2008.

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