"Billy Smith" wrote in message
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I've noticed that Chicago, IL and Memphis TN
have a wide variety of still local flavors. In fact, some of the better
stations heard come out of Memphis TN since much of their local stations
are locally owned and operated and the decisions are not made in a
corporate boardroom in NYC, LA or wherever.

In Memphis, of the 23 stations with a one share of audience or more (23
stations) two are non-commercial FMs and 3 are locally owned by Flinn
Broadcasting which has 26 stations in the region.

The rest are owned by Clear Channel, Citadel and Entercom, including the top
6 and 8 of the top 10. So much for your theory about Memphis.

In Chicago, 31 stations have a one share or over. Of them, of the top 18,
only one is locally owned, Tribune's WGN (but it is a multi-market and
multi-station owner). #19 is a non-com, and 20 to 25 are not locally owned.
#26 is locally owned and classical, and the remainder of the 31 are not
locally owned except for Moody's religious WMBI (FM).

There goes your theory.