"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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Take your IBOC shilling somewhere else. I don't see where most of us
here want to hear about it.

I am trying to explain why htings must change if there is to be any kind
of free radio in the future... AM, FM, SW of any kind. If you want media
all controlled by Rupert Murdeoch and a few major companies that are
world-wide, then stick to your guns. You will be part of the death of
free radio.


WTF??? In case you hadn't noticed, a few major companies already DO
control media.. (or close enough to all of it that it's difficult to find
anyone else in any market that isn't either religious or public radio/TV
or tiny indy papers with a circulation of 200)

Oh my gosh. Somebody has done a real leftist whack job on you, sister.

In the US, no company owns more than 8% of all staitons, and the first 10
companies onw less than 20% of them. There are, in fact, about 3,000 owners
of the 13 thousand US radio staitons.

Newspapers are one of the least consolidated industries in the US, with no
company holding even 10% of US circulation. In fact, the biggies like Gannet
or McClatchy have just a few percent of total daily circulation. One of the
reasons is that newspapers are a bad investment, and are dying very slowly.
There are hundreds and hundreds of different newspaper owners.

There used to be 3 TV nets, with three owners. There are now over a hundred,
with about 30 owners, including multiple minority networks like BET and
Univision and Galavision.