Salon.com > F. Timothy Martin http://www.salon.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:37:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Jesse Helms: Web radio’s hero http://www.salon.com/2002/11/19/helms_web_radio/ http://www.salon.com/2002/11/19/helms_web_radio/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2002/11/19/helms_web_radio For the noncommercial Web broadcasting community, mostly composed of politically left-leaning independent and college radio stations, an unlikely ally has emerged to help in their fight against potentially crippling royalty payments. He is Jesse Helms, the Republican senator from North Carolina, and while his actions may very well be motivated by the interests of small conservative Christian Internet broadcasters, his support for the Small Webcasters Settlement Act (SWSA) has compelled some noncommercial station backers to feel for him what they never imagined they could -- gratitude.

Helms first involved himself in late October, when a version of the bill reached the Senate after unanimously passing a vote in the House of Representatives. Several senators, including Helms, voiced concerns that the bill lacked provisions to protect small and noncommercial webcasters. As a result, Helms moved to block the legislation, the only senator to do so.

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