Music

[Myblue]

Where do you find generic music to put under serious long form stories? The slow music, piano, etc.? I like the music choices, for example, on Sportscentury and other ESPN stories. Our music library is sub-par to say the least.

[Necktie Boy]

Have you checked your Creative Services' music library? Or this is the Creative Services' library.

[Myblue]

They are very limited as well.

[Run 'n' Get 'em]

I believe if it's less than 0:15 you can use any song out there... More if your station has the license to the music (someone correct me if i'm wrong, not 100% sure on the time).

[Dan R.]

freeplaymusic.com has some good material.

[javary]

most broadcast stations have a ascap/bmi licensing agreement where you can use any music published under the ascap/bmi umbrella royalty free.

if you are producing a program to be distributed to other stations that might not have the ascap/bmi coverage, play it safe and work from the freeplay.com selections. some can be a bit cheesy, but if you dig long enough you might find that nugget of gold that takes your program to the promised land.

[thru-the-lens]

Once upon a time I worked with a really talented photographer/musican we called "Beef" Wellington.
He would from time to time bring in his guitar or a dobro and go into an edit bay and play. His compositions would then become the soundtrack to the story.

If you have the musical talent you could give that a try.

On a side note. Anyone remember the time when the John Tesh "Tour de France" albums was used alot in sports stories?

thru-the-lens.

[goodfoot]

We just went over this rule at my station. Apparently, the rights to ascap music only covers live bumps and music that is playing at the scene of a story. I was told that we may not edit to music without a seperate license which is very costly. We can use generic music that we have licenced from a company like hollywood edge.