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. :)
1 comment:
[[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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