Clear Channel killed the radio star... Okay, so
you and your compe
tition buy up all these radio stations and kill the little guys with the big hearts, then one day your audience turns on you. What do you do? You coldly attempt to mimic the attitude of the once successful radio stations that you and your enemy helped kill years before, and a fickle audience buys into it, at least for awhile. You still look like a bunch of
boners, but hey at least the
Arbitrons look good for a couple quarters.
The Zoo and Q102 are spinning in their vampire-like graves... Is this a success story, or an autopsy? Can good radio survive corporate mentality?
posted by ZachsMind
on Aug 8, 2002 -
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Arbitron just sent me a dollar..? I've been invited to participate in a once (sometimes occasionally twice) in a lifetime opportunity. No wonder our radio waves are so screwed up. Station owners think they learn what the public wants through a short-sighted random process, which obviously doesn't work. What's most amusing to me is they're buying my opinion for a buck. Even
jury duty was kind enough to pay me six!
posted by ZachsMind
on Jun 19, 2001 -
25 comments
Find out how many radio stations in your area are owned by the same company. Here in Dallas Texas
Clear Channel owns six. Then there's four other radio stations owned by
Susquehanna Radio which used to be owned by AM/FM Incorporated but they merged with *guess who* Clear Channel last year. So it looks like Clear Channel either directly or indirectly controls almost a dozen radio stations in north Texas alone. How much control do they have over your airwaves? Ever wonder why radio stations all
sound the same? Cuz they
ARE the same!
posted by ZachsMind
on May 5, 2001 -
24 comments
