BMI And Promo Payments

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I’ve been doing my quarterly dance of reconciling my BMI statements with my Tunesat detections.

I had been wondering why a couple of MTV uses last year had not been paid so I called BMI and discovered that the cue sheet was filed but my name wasn’t on it. Hmmm… I went back to the Tunesat detection and listened to the whole piece and discovered it was a promo for another show. I suspected that BMI did not pay on promos and the person at BMI confirmed it. Bummer. She did say that starting this year BMI was paying on promos. Better late than never I guess. Anyone else have info on this?

[Update] – promos (at) bmi (dot) com is the e-mail address for any questions on this issue.

BMI – Tunesat Reconciliation

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That time again as the quarterly BMI payment was on June 24th. Always a fascinating exercise reconciling my BMI statement with my Tunesat detections. I’m much more incentivized now as I recently collected a decent size license fee for an unauthorized use of one of our cues. I would have never known about it if it hadn’t been for Tunesat. No, I don’t work for them but they do give me a bit of a break for my running their banner ad. I was a client before the break and would be if there wasn’t one.

OK back to the spreadsheet!

Busted? Thank you Tunesat!

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So, I’ve been having an interesting day. I’ve been reconciling my BMI statements and Tunesat detections for Q2 2010 and Q3 2010. I’ve found about 40 usage detections for a show on ESPNU, a college sports network, that does not show up on my BMI statements. It seems that the music was purchased from a royalty free site. Hmmm… I called ESPN and they are looking into it. It may be that they just have not gotten around to filing the cue sheets but I’m very curious. I will keep you posted.

Scripps Networks – BMI Performance Royalties

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I just got off the phone with my contact at BMI and the word is that last week they finalized their settlement with the Scripps Networks. For those of you who don’t know, Scripps has not been paying performance royalties but that is about to change. BMI is collecting cue sheets and music use documents to pay everyone, payment is retroactive. If you have had music running on Scripps then you should be letting BMI know the shows you have been on even though, theoretically, they will pick them up from the cue sheets and other docs.

My contact said they should start distributing funds 3rd (but most likely) 4th quarter this year (2010). I’m not the official word for BMI just passing on the info from my source. It’s best to contact your BMI rep.