Jerry Del Colliano's Inside Music Media blog reports on some stunning stuff Clear Channel is up to lately, including eventually, running phantom radio stations.Scary.
Treasure your terrestrial radio, and appreciate the radio stations that are not nationally or corporate-owned. Clear Channel's Triad stations include WCBT-FM (94.5), WMAG-FM (99.5), WMKS-FM (105.7), WTQR-FM (104), WVBZ-FM (100.3).
An excerpt from Colliano:
These latest developments raise a lot of questions.************************
• Number one -- Clear Channel appears to have been less than forthright about their intentions if I am correct.
• The mass firings are consistent with the march toward Repeater Radio.
• Someone at corporate or legal apparently has had second thoughts about Clear Channel's exposure in all of this. After all, it is unthinkable that the largest radio group could single-handedly take 800 licenses and rip up the local responsibility part for financial gain.
• Radio is sounding as bad as Wall Street but it hasn't stopped the new masters of radio from pissing all over radio listeners -- you know, the 234 million that Jeff Haley brags about. Hope they like voice tracking. Hope they like generic programming. Personally, young people have it right -- iPods, the Internet, NPR and file sharing.
• Will the GM or PD even remember to turn his or her cell phone ringer on for the night while this scam is perpetrated on the public?
• Will they have a way to get on the air on all their stations to get the word out? Will they have a way to find out what the word is?
• How will the minimum wage attendant be made aware of a public emergency in the middle of the night or at any time? Will they have a phone code to dial out? Or even a phone list of five or six management people she or he can call? (Come on, CC corporate, we have questions here!)
• Is the program director or air talent of today capable of sounding cogent for hours on end, talking about an emergency? Or is it all for show -- to justify the screwing that consolidators are about ready to give to Jeff Haley's 234 million best friends.
E.C. :)
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[[After all, it is unthinkable that the largest radio group could single-handedly take 800 licenses and rip up the local responsibility part for financial gain.]]
Have you been paying NO attention to the FCC since 1979? Of COURSE it's not unthinkable. Heck, it's probably even legal. :-)
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