Pandora Issues a "Call to Arms" to its Listeners

I don't know about elsewhere, but in Britain commercial radio stations have to pay a certain percentage of their turnover to the music licensing bodies. It works out at about 6-10% depending on the size of the station, and it doesn't help that we have two bodies doing slightly different things and both taking their 3-5% cut, plus extra fees if you want to simulcast online or via satellite or do anything vaguely innovative in the vein of Last.fm or Pandora. And god forbid anyone include commercial music in podcasts!

The amounts internet stations pay are peanuts compared to the hundreds of thousands going out of FM/AM stations, particularly those which are trying to use tech to become more than just FM/AM stations.

What part would need to be moved to the UK. Would they have to reincorporate as a UK company? Or would they have to move all there key employees to the UK?

If they moved the whole thing lock, stock and barrel to the UK, they'd run into the same problems with music licensing bodies. Online radio stations in this country have been having a tough time of it lately.

But what do you expect when the MCPS/PRS collecting body is run by the sort of jobsworths who send letters to shops telling them to turn the staffroom radio off or face a big bill?!