Royalty Reporter

Client shall provide electronically to Service Provider the Radio Automation System Metadata synchronized to the audio content. The Radio Automation System Metadata must at all times:

• provide information about currently playing content;
• be sufficiently descriptive of each individual item playing out;
• be sent synchronously with audio content being played out;
• contain information relative to every Service provided to client:
  • Streaming and delivery services require at a minimum:
    1. artist name; and
    2. title of musical content.
  • Royalty reporter services require at minimum:
    1. title of the track, as listed on the commercially released recording;
    2. name of the featured artist, as listed on the commercially released recording;
    3. International Standard Recording Code (“ISRC”), or (if the ISRC is unavailable) the combination of both:
       1. the album name, and
       2. marketing label
  • Advertising revenue services and Tap services require at a minimum:
    1. individual commercial breaks.

“Radio Automation System Metadata” (also known as “PAD data”, “program associated data”, “RAS data”, “now playing data”, “break data” or “cue points”) means a collection of information sent by various playout systems that allow Service Provider’s systems to perform and deliver certain functionalities such as: displaying information about the currently playing content, detecting ad breaks, aligning data to audio and other data driven activities such as populating the Royalty Reporting data.