In any three-hour period, User should not intentionally program more than three songs (and not more than two songs in a row) from the same recording; User should not intentionally program more than four songs (and not more than three songs in a row) from the same recording artist or anthology/box set.
Continuous looped Broadcast Programming may not be less than three hours long.
Retransmission's of User's Broadcast Programming may be performed at scheduled times as follows:
Broadcast Programs of less than one-hour shall not be broadcast more than three times in a two-week period
Broadcast Programs longer than one hour shall not be broadcast more than four times in any two-week period

stick in the mud....lol

i really thought i read that somewhere...(without getting the rules slapped in my face again)...lol.....for example if a famous rocker died ..what made me think of it was this whole whitney houston thing....not that my station plays her genre...i know im not freaking out im gonna dig deeper or i might be pissing in the wind...if i find something i'll post it otherwise i'll go back to my corner.....lol

I believe the way the rules have been forged regarding OTA radio and internet we get screwed out of this style of radio tradition.....And there's no real recourse to get around it unless you're one of the big dogs like CBS, AOL, etc. since they own a stake in some of the copyrights involved with single artist streams.

thats too bad, cause lets say a famous person dies that is in the genre of your radio station and u wanted to do an hour of just that person in memory of or in respect to, we keeping getting the shaft (small webcasters).

there's ways around the DMCA, you have to be creative though....

When Whitney Houston died a lot of Clear Channel Top 40 and Urban stations played wall to wall Houston for a good 2 or 3 hours. Which is probably the most Whitney they've played in 20 years. While that's questionable within webcasting rules, you could do a a solid hour of any artist. Just do some prep.

I'll take Davy Jones of The Monkees as an example, all these as a playlist would be legal under current rules:

Play a couple of Monkees songs.
Play Neil Diamond versions of songs he wrote for the Monkees (or just play Neil Diamond, since he was connected to the Monkees)
Tommy Bouce & Bobby Hart's "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight". The pair wrote a bunch of Monkees songs, that's about the only one I can think of they had on their own though.

There's a bunch more I could name, but you get the idea...you can still pay homage to recent musician deaths and play within the rules.

I do not do any acknowledgement when an artist I play dies. I play Whitney Houston on both of my stations. The reason being that the media these days seems to have to have their nose in every aspect of the deceased life and over-reports on the event. I for one get tired of all the added coverage and don't want to add to the insanity. News organizations are more about ratings and not quality of content/reporting.

I actually had a listener ask me "You not gonna give in to the pressure to play The Monkees due to the death are you?" I quickly replied NO NEVER!! I sort of feel the same but now if Ozzy Osbourne died I'd play a little more Black Sabbath. I'd maybe concentrate on the artists around the year he started Black Sabbath. This reminds listeners of the years of the same style of music that an artist that is no longer with us played.