Tunesat – Monitoring Your On Air Music
If you have a fair amount of music being used on TV you might be interested in this service. I have signed up and can say it’s extremely useful to me to know who is using my music and where. I wrote more about it here. With a followup here.
Categories: Music Miscellania | 
Tags: air music, Monitoring, Tunesat | 
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Hey all,
I’m thinking of using Tunesat but they will not let me join on a trial basis to check out their service.
Has anyone had great results with these guys? I’ve read Art’s blog posts about them, but does anyone have any new information? Thanks..
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Art, June 17th, 2010 at 1:23 pm Reply:
Hey oontz,
I’m really happy with them and they are great people to work with. It is the future and well worth the money, if you have a lot of stuff on the air you want to keep track of.
I recently posted this on another thread.
Tunesat seems to be gaining more and more ground in the industry. They have recently announced:
“Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), the world’s leading global music publisher, and TuneSat, LLC announced today that they have entered into a deal to utilize TuneSat audio fingerprint technology to monitor performance use of UMPG’s vast copyrights across U.S. broadcast television.”
They have also announced:
“Our BMI/ASCAP comparison report is in beta testing. With this advancement, we look forward to providing users with a customized exception report comparing your PRO royalties against our detection data.”
Hopefully the PROs are getting the message!
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Frank, June 17th, 2010 at 2:22 pm Reply:
I believe that SESAC just signed with Tunesat to monitor their catalog.
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Art, June 17th, 2010 at 2:42 pm Reply:
Yes, that’s correct SESAC recently signed a deal with them.
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Scott, June 17th, 2010 at 6:44 pm Reply:
A recent talk with my SESAC rep would seem to indicate that the initial coverage of SESAC works will extend to back catalog songs, then library/production music. It will probably not include score any time soon, which seems to make good sense – they’re using the ‘fingerprinting’ to dig in the cracks and crevices for things they probably would have missed otherwise.
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