The big fight: ‘Radio Caroline’ versus PRS
In the blue corner you have an annoyingly rich unforgiving tax collector gifted by laws that mean they can autonomously demand money from people and not necessarily get it back to those who really deserve it.
In the red corner you have a nearly broke bloke and his mates playing old rock records to themselves and a few others via the internet and satellite telly.
I don’t know who activated this fight, maybe it was the broadcasting of music on 531 kHz, but suddenly the battle is on and both are in the ring.
In the blue corner the fight is for three or more years of PRS returns and the dosh.
In the lady in red corner the fight is for the hope that the PRS will go away and leave them alone as they have done before.
Forced to have to start filling in the old fashioned sheets by hand (most stations do this automatically from their playout systems), the red corner is suffering its first low blows from having no idea of the information requested by the PRS, and so is rapidly having to drop and stop playing anything they can’t trace the origin of. Listeners have already noticed the lack of variety compared to normal.
I fear there will only be one winner at the end of this bout, as this is the final showdown.
