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In 1924, a magazine ran a contest: “Who is to pay for broadcasting and how?” A century later, we’re still asking the same question

July 22, 2024, 10:21 a.m.Radio Broadcast received close to a thousand entries to its contest — but ultimately rejected them all. After yet another day reading about audio industry layoffs and show cancellations, or listening to podcasts about layoffs and show cancellations, I sometimes wonder, “With all this great audio being given away for free, who did we think was supposed to pay for it all?” I find some consolation in the fact that that question is more than a century old. In the spring of 1...

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