Dear RXP listeners,
All of us at 101.9 RXP greatly appreciate the support you’ve shown since we started just over a year ago... now we’re asking you to help us keep rock alive in New York. New music, alternative rock and local music is all in very real danger of disappearing from RXP…
Radio has always provided free on-air play and support to artists and musicians. Radio plays the music; the artist receives free radio exposure. As a result, the band or artist gets famous and sells lots of albums, CDs and downloads. It’s a symbiotic relationship that works for both parties.
Now, during these tough economic times, the foreign-owned record labels are asking our government for a handout – and they want to take it from your local radio stations.
They have gone to Congress and asked them to pass a new bill that would allow record companies to tax RXP for playing the music for free.
If this tax passes, it will take money out of New York City and send it to the mostly foreign-owned record companies headquartered in France, the UK and Japan.
It’s not right, and it will force RXP to cut back on our new and local music, cause more job losses and severely limit the amount of community service that we provide.
A few of our congressmen and women are standing up for local radio by sponsoring a bill to keep the music you love free from a performance tax.
New York’s Charles Rangel, Carolyn McCarthy and Greg Meeks along with New Jersey’s Frank Pallone, Bill Pascrell, Albio Sires, Chris Smith and Leonard Lance … you have our thanks for supporting local radio!
Please call and ask YOUR congressmen and women today and encourange them to sponsor the Local Radio Freedom Act and oppose a performance tax on free radio.
Please ask them to vote "No" on the Performance Tax bill
and to vote “YES” on The Local Radio Freedom Act.
Learn more at:
www.NoPerformanceTax.org
Help keep the music you love on
101.9 RXP!
Thank you!
The 101.9 RXP staff & management
If you live in New York, we have listed your Congressional Representatives below. Find your local representative and call their Washington DC office, or their local office. They all have staff in both places to take your call.
• Bishop, Timothy, New York, 1st - 202-225-3826 / 631-696-6500
• Clarke, Yvette D., New York, 11th - 202-225-6231 / 718-287-1142
• Crowley, Joseph, New York, 7th - 202-225-3965 / 718-779-1400
• Engel, Eliot, New York, 17th - 202-225-2464 / 718-796-9700 4
• Israel, Steve, New York, 2nd - 202-225-3335 / 631-951-2210
• King, Pete, New York, 3rd - 202-225-7896 / 516-541-4225
• Lowey, Nita, New York, 18th - 202-225-6506 / 914-428-1707
• McMahon, Michael E., New York, 13th - 202-225-3371 / 718-351-1062
• Maloney, Carolyn, New York, 14th - 202-225-7944 / 718-932-1804
• Nadler, Jerrold, New York, 8th - 202-225-5635 / 718-373-3198
• Serrano, José E., New York, 16th - 202-225-4361 / 718-620-0084
• Towns, Edolphus, New York, 10th - 202-225-5936 / 718-855-8018
• Velázquez, Nydia M., New York, 12th - 202-225-2361 / 718-599-3658
• Weiner, Anthony D., New York, 9th - 202-225-6616 / 718-520-9001
• Ackerman, Gary, New York 5th - 202-225-2601 / 718-423-2154
If you live in New Jersey, here are your representatives…
John Adler (D-3 rd) 202-225-4765; and 856-985-2777
Steven Rothman (D-9 th) 202-225-5061; and 201-646-0808; and 201-798-1366
Donald Payne (D-10 th) 202-225-3436; and 908-629-0222; and 201-369-0392
Scott Garrett (R-5 th) 202-223-4463; and 201-712-0330; and 973-300-2000
Rush Holt (D-12 th) 202-225-5801; and 609-750-9365
Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-11 th) 202-225-5034; and 973-984-0711