[kragen]

Right, but those rates don't apply to internet streaming. This proposed new service isn't exactly internet-based, but it isn't an FCC-licensed commercial radio station either, and it's digital and packet switched; you can bet your left ovary that sooner or later it would face music industry mafiosi arguing in court that it should have to pay the internet streaming radio rates, not the ones KVIL pays.

[nullc]

Follow the link and look midway through it, statutory licensing also applies to non-interactive internet streaming too-- though the rules are somewhat different.