Music Podcasts [BBC - Radio Labs]

Clipping

Now we have reached agreement with the PPL (which is a music industry organisation which collects and distributes royalties on behalf of record companies and performers), we can include commercial music clips up to 30" long in our podcasts. This opens up a whole new world for us in terms of what we can offer in this space. It also raises questions about what kind of content we are broadcasting in the first place (given that the audio content has to have been broadcast), and how much production effort is going to be required to make our linear radio programmes work with just 30" of music. We're going to roll out about 19 new music clip podcasts in this first phase - the full list is here.