Local radio broadcasters around the country now have a new partner in the fight to keep radio free.
Senator Ron Johnson has officially signed on to be a co-sponsor of the Local Radio Freedom Act.
Earlier this week we ran a report on this bill, which Seehafer Broadcasting Vice President Terry Stevenson said would keep record labels from charging radio stations even more money to play their songs.
“The music industry, the artists themselves and their lobby groups, they feel that they are not being paid enough from their record labels for their music,” Stevenson explained. “So, they are going after broadcasters and they want us to pay a performance tax.”
Which is on top of the licensing fees stations already pay.
Johnson is one of 20 senators to sign on to the bill shortly after it was introduced.
Cosponsors in the House from Wisconsin include Representatives Glenn Grothman, Mike Gallagher, Bryan Steil, Derrick Van Orden, and Tom Tiffany.