From this morning’s Taylor on Radio-Info: The policy change happened quietly on Friday, but was quickly detected by the Webcasting/Internet Streaming Board of Radio-Info. The CBS decision is apparently due to music royalties, but T-R-I says “the CBS talk-based stations (news, talk, sports) are collateral damage, because their Internet streams are also now unavailable to users outside the U.S.” Why is a sports station in Boston or a news station in Los Angeles affected, when they don’t play music? The issue is the CBS/AOL player software. It’s the common platform shared by all the CBS Radio terrestrial stations which stream. Pulling out the stations that don’t play music is a logistical problem. More on the Webcasting/Internet Streaming Board of Radio-Info, here.