An issue that smaller webcasters raised was the desire to be assured that their fees would not exceed their revenue.
The Board rejected this reasoning in their final decision because the ability of smaller stations to generate revenue from their operations has little or no bearing on the market value of the rights held by the copyright holders.
A coalition of webcasters that included National Public Radio (NPR) joined together to request a rehearing on the increase in rates.
For example, under the 2007 rate, 100 unique listeners of a transmission of a sound recording will cost the transmitter eleven cents.
Noncommercial webcasters[6] Annual fee $500 per channel or station, up to a total of 159,140 aggregate tuning hours (ATH) per month.