BRS Media Makes an Appeal to Law Makers -- ''Don't Let Internet Radio be Silenced!''.

Business Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2002

BRS Media, an e-commerce firm that specializes in assisting radio station and multimedia websites build and brand on the power of the Web, today released details of a letter they sent to law makers in Washington with regard to the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP).

In the letter to Congress BRS Media's Chairman & CEO George T. Bundy stated, "The Copyright Office may be about to make a decision that will effectively destroy a once thriving Internet sector known as Internet Radio." Bundy went on to write, "The CARP recommendation to the Library of Congress suggests royalty rates that are disproportionate, arbitrary, and biased against Internet Radio." He then added, "One of the greatest opportunities created by the commercialization of the Internet was the ability to level the playing field."

Referencing numbers recently released by BRS Media, a firm which has been tracking Radio on the Internet since 1995, Bundy noted that the number of online radio stations worldwide is now down to 4633. As opposed to early Spring 2001 when there were over 5700 radio stations webcasting online. With those numbers in mind Bundy continued the letter, stating, "Unfortunately, the industry's growth has been stunted; and we are now seeing that the number of radio stations going offline has begun to exceed the number of new stations coming online." Clearly, the Internet Radio sector as a whole has been directly impacted. However, the negative impact this has had on consumer's options when it comes to Internet Radio should not be overlooked.

If the CARP recommendation is accepted, it is feared that Internet Radio stations such as: Digitally Imported (www.di.fm), SomaFM (www.soma.fm), and Total70s.FM (www.total70s.fm) would fall silent; being left without the resources required to continue providing the valuable online radio entertainment their thousands of listeners log on in search of.

BRS Media's letter can be viewed online: http://www.brsmedia.fm/carp.html.

Also, in an attempt to better inform Internet Radio listeners of the gravity of this matter BRS Media has launched SOS.DJ (www.sos.dj) for "Save Our (Internet) Stations & (Internet) DJs." The site acts as a resource for online radio listeners by providing information, as well as, by giving them a means through which they can show their support. Log on today! Find out how you can contact your legislators and show your support for your favorite Internet Radio station(s).

BRS Media, a member of the International Webcasting Association (www.iwa.fm), is a full service Internet e-commerce firm whose online divisions include dotFM (www.dot.fm), the first registry in the world to offer premium multimedia domains under .FM. As well as, dotAM, dotzDJ, & dotzCD (www.dot.am ; www.dotz.cd), domain registrars of premium .AM, .DJ, & .CD (TLD) multimedia domains. BRS Media Inc. can be found on the World Wide Web at www.brsmedia.fm.