Berklee College of Music launches new Internet stations

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Boston's Berklee College of Music is launching four Internet radio stations today. The move comes at a time when many Internet broadcasters say they'll be forced out of business because of new, sharply higher royalties they must pay to copyright holders.

The segment features an interview with Stephen Croes, dean of Berklee's technology program. After I stopped recording our conversation, I had fun talking with Croes about growing up in South Dakota. He's from west of the Missouri (Rapid City); I'm an "East River" guy (Watertown). Croes, a musician, told me he played in every small town in South Dakota and surrounding states, often in the town's armory. That reminded me that armories were very much the civic center of the towns in the state where I spent my childhood. I wonder if it's still that way?