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tpryan
response 137 of 145: Mark Unseen   Apr 20 21:33 UTC 2001

        That includes the old WIQB, now WWWW (W4) 102.9fm Ann Arbor
and WKQL, Kool107, 107.1fm, Ann Arbor.
        Do they own Detroit stations?
krj
response 138 of 145: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 19:30 UTC 2001

Salon continues its muckraking series with a slashing attack on Clear
Channel Communications, the corporation which controls 60% of rock radio
in the USA, they say, and which is using blacklist tactics to stop 
artists and labels from doing promotional work with Clear Channel's
competitors.
 
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/04/30/clear_channel/index.html

A quote from the end of the article:
"There is some evidence that consolidation economics has damaged radio's
 popularity....   In just the past seven years radio listening has declined
 nearly 15 percent, according to Arbitron.  One in three listeners between
 the ages of 12 and 24 recently told Arbitron they were listening to less
 radio specifically because of the commercial overload."
raven
response 139 of 145: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 22:57 UTC 2001

This seems pretty directly relevant as to why we need more low power fm
broadcasters as per the pirate radio item in this springs agora item.
krj
response 140 of 145: Mark Unseen   May 29 20:50 UTC 2001

News item:  The Los Angeles Times says it has internal paperwork
from an independent promotion agency proving that this agency routinely
makes illegal payments to radio stations for airplay.
 
   "Experts say the newly disclosed bank data could threaten the licenses
of numerous stations.
   "'This document destroys the notion that the new payola is any different
from the old payola,' said Peter Hart, an analyst for the New York-based
media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting.
   "'What you have here is a smoking gun...  An appropriate government
investigation could blow this whole industry wide open.'"

http://www.latimes.com/print/20010529/t000044865.html

The web site says this was a front page story.
mcnally
response 141 of 145: Mark Unseen   May 29 23:26 UTC 2001

  With the growing consolidation of music-producing and broadcasting
  companies it may eventually wind up being a moot point -- it doesn't
  seem too hard to imagine a near future where you tune into the local
  station of the Vivendi Radio Network, which only plays that company's
  stable of artists.  

  Still, anything that shakes up the currently dismal state of commercial
  radio has at least the potential to do good..
arianna
response 142 of 145: Mark Unseen   Jul 19 04:27 UTC 2001

Is anyone else into NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" show?  (:
bruin
response 143 of 145: Mark Unseen   Jul 19 12:24 UTC 2001

RE #142 I listen to "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me" just about every week.
tpryan
response 144 of 145: Mark Unseen   Jul 21 23:10 UTC 2001

        What time on which station(s)?
bruin
response 145 of 145: Mark Unseen   Jul 22 00:14 UTC 2001

RE #144 11:00 am Saturdays on WEMU (89.1 FM) and 3:00 pm Saturdays on 
WUOM (91.7 FM).
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