New ASCAP royalties are on their way to radio broadcasters. ASCAP and the Radio Music Licensing Committee (RMLC) have just announced that they have reached an agreement in principal to return to the percentage of revenue royalties that for so long were paid by radio stations to ASCAP and BMI – a system that was abandoned for a market-based flat-fee system designed to avoid having the licensing organizations as partners that shared in what stations believed would be forever rising radio revenues. Of course, soon after the deal was struck, the current economic troubles hit, radio revenues fell, and the flat fees left many stations paying multiples of what they had been paying under the prior system. A return to the percentage of revenue-based system would seem to be a very good thing.....