Who pays riaa-ascap licensing on a radio program broadcast at a station but produced elsewhere - the producer of the program or the radio station that broadcasts it?

Answer 1

That depends on who the show is being produced for. If the radio station is hiring the producer to create the program for their exclusive use then the station pays the licensing fees. If the producer is leasing the program to a number of stations then he/she pays the fees and builds that cost into the charges to the various stations.