"Billy Smith" wrote in message
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If you want to listen to real radio, find a station that is locally owned
and operated not some overpriced corporate jukebox owned by Entercom,
Clear Channel, etc. When I make a reference to Memphis it's one of the
better ethnic music cities where LOCALLY owned stations generally exist
with local DJs and local people. Not some satellite feed from some Ivory
tower place in NYC or some other major metro.

Neither Memphis nor Chicago have a higher percentage of locally owned
stations than the average for markets their size. In fact, both are among
the lowest.

Ever notice that in many places overseas, they don't have the media
concentration we have in the US. I'm not talking about governments
controlling broadcasting, I am talking about locally owned stations in the
Carribean, Europe, and other countries. Not this corpratized crap that
they call radio in the US.

Caribbean? Most Jamaican radio is controlled by two entities. Groups own
multiple stations in the Dominican Republic. In Puerto Rico, consolidation
is greater than most of the US, as nearly all stations are networked. The
Lesser Antilles are so small that there is not much to compare with.
Colombia has 3 companies controlling 80% of the stations and was
consolidated since the late 50's, and Venezuela is similar. Central America
has been consolidated since the 60's. In South America, most of the
countries have national networks, owned by one company that runs multiple
networks... one Chilean company has 5 national networks from Arica to Punta
Arenas.

In Europe, much if not most radio is networked nationally. In Spain, SER has
5 or 6 national nets with as many as 180 stations and low power repeaters on
each; Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, etc., have highly consolidated
national nets.