The deadline for Webcasters looms. This is Future Tense for Friday October 18, I'm Art Hughes filling in for Jon Gordon. Web radio sites will have to begin paying royalties to the record industry starting Sunday. Congress failed to reach agreement on a compromise bill this week to switch from per-song payments to payments based on revenues. But either way most small webcasters see the negotiated agreement as the death knell for their service. Hundreds of webcasters have already pulled the plug. Deb Proctor, general manager of classical music station WCPE in Raleigh, NC. She says her station won't be able to comply with the agreement between certain Web entities and the recording industry. Deb Proctor with WCPE in Raleigh. Stations like Proctor's say the inability of the Senate to pass the compromise bill is a mixed blessing. They're still stuck with paying the royalties retroactive to 1997.