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Help Keep Internet Radio Alive!

Let your voice be heard.

What's this all about?: On July 15th, royalty payments for webcast music will increase by as much as 1200%. This outrageous and unfair ruling will result in many webcasters owing music royalty fees that are more than their yearly budget! Because of this, many popular internet radio services will shut down.

Non-commercial stations, like WORT, must pay the commercial royalty rate once a certain amount of online listeners tune in. WORT will have to limit the amount of online listeners we have.

What You Can Do:

1. Contact your Representatives:
The Internet Radio Equality Act has been introduced in Congress to address the webcast royalty issue. Use the online form at saveinternetradio.org to find the phone numbers of your Congressional Representatives. Pressure from constituents seems to be working - The IREA now has over 100 Congressional co-sponsors.

2. Share:
This is not a fringe issue: At least 50 million Americans listen to Internet radio each month!

Spread the word. Let people know about this issue. Do you use social network sites like Digg, Del.icio.us or Reddit? Click Here to add this page to those sites and many others!

3. Support:
Listener-sponsored WORT can't continue our work without your help! If you are not a sponsor, please donate today!


For the meantime we are still streaming...

Two WORT webstreams to pick from

WinAmp is the preferred player for both of these streams. It's free to download and use.

DSL/high bandwidth users:

Click Here to listen to high bandwidth WORT (96kbs)

Troubleshooting: Try pasting this link into WinAmp directly (in the "Play URL..." command): http://s7.viastreaming.net:7100

Dialup/low bandwidth users:

Click Here to listen to lower bandwidth WORT (32kbs)

Troubleshooting: Try pasting this link into WinAmp directly (in the "Play URL..." command): http://216.153.251.197:8000

Streaming is expensive!

Though streaming is an added cost in our tight budget, we know that you appreciate it. Please donate to WORT by clicking here.

You may also donate through PayPal

Need a player?

WinAmp is the preferred player for this stream. The newest version of Windows Media Player works for some people, not for others.

Other players:

What's on the stream right now?

To see the complete schedule of WORT programming, click here to view the schedule in HTML format or here for PDF . WORT is currently streaming all of its News and Public Affairs programs and most of its Music programming. DJs occasionally switch the stream off during their music programs.

Why ever turn it off?

Digital Millenium Copyright Act regulations require us to turn off the music stream on occasion. The DMCA specifies limits on what can be streamed. Click here for a full explanation of the DMCA restrictions. Our stream should be running alternate programming when that happens.