On July 13th broadcast of The Afternoon Show, Anthony announced if WRAJ Internet Radio will be on the air on Sunday/Monday of what was known as “The Day When the Music Dies.”

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We apologize to our listeners that on Tuesday, June 26 that you were unable to listen to our station. We shut off our regular programming to bring you special programming of the “Day of Silence,” in act of protest against the new royalty rates for the music we are everyday on the station.

With the rise of the royalty rates, we would be unable to afford the new rates, retroactively from 2006 to 2010. In May, two senators established an act called the Internet Radio Equality Act. Today, there are hundreds of congressmen and several senators that currently supports the act.

However, we would like to thank all of our listeners who contacted their senators and representatives regarding the issue and reminding them to sponsor the Internet Radio Equality Act.

On the Day of Silence, Savenetradio.org, the organization who established the day of silence, had so many users on the site that it was crashing because of all the access activity. Not only savenetradio.org crashed, but also for the switchboard of the congressmen and senators, according to the Radio and Internet Newsletter (RAIN), which callers tell their representative or senator them to sign the Internet Radio Equality Act.

And on the “Day of Silence,” internet radio stations made headlines on AP, Washington Post, NBC News, CNN, ABC News, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, and more.

And once again, i would like to thank all of our listeners and supporters for a a great success, I hope to keep all of the information up to date on this site.

Anthony Zaragoza

WRAJ Internet Radio

WRAJ Internet Radio will be the one in many webcasters which will hold music programming on Tuesday in an act to prevent the new CRB rates which will put most stations out of business.

From 8AM through 8PM Eastern, we will be presenting a special presentation of “Where the Music Won’t Come Alive: Internet Radio!” More coverage will be announced tomorrow on “The Afternoon Show” and this blog.

AZ Tech Talk will be replaced by a special presentation of Save Net Radio this Saturday, hosted by Ray Gauthier of 80’s Meltdown. Guests include Carmen Allgood from the Colorado Wave, Paul Philbeck of Webcastersunite, Kurt Hanson of Accuradio and RAIN Newsletter, Mark Lam of Live 365, Tim Westergren of Pandora, and Jake Ward of Savenetradio.org. This presentation will bring you a more in-depth feeling of what the internet radio will be like if the new CRB rates will pass in July. This will be playing this Saturday and as well as next Saturday at 7AM EST. The show will be available for podcast through AZ Tech Talk next week.