KA Turner wrote:

I wonder if they use PAMS Series 18 jingles? I just love those jingles and
those old deeejays. I think we are too hard on Clear Channel. There is a
horrible local yokel station in my GA town that downloads off satellite (and
pulled a Yankee out of the ad sales pool to get a big city look) But there
is a Clear Channel station that has better personalities.

Before moving to California, I was amazed at the amount of truly local stuff
on WZOO-FM Ashtabula, Ohio and WKDD-FM Akron, Ohio - two small-market stations
bought by Clear Channel a couple years ago. Very focused on local issues.
WKDD was, and continues to be, one of my all-time favorite stations. Clear
Channel did a good job of not changing that.

Here in the High Desert, KZXY-FM Apple Valley is also a small-market station
owned by Clear Channel. I think they do OK too. Their sister AM talk station
had round-the-clock live coverage of the wildfires in this area... lots and
lots of good information.

I'm not saying that there aren't stations they don't completely screw up,
but there are some good ones out there.

What amazes me is that Infinity owns a station out here... I don't recall
which one.

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On 28 Nov 2003 18:40:26 GMT, Steven J Sobol
wrote:

I'm not saying that there aren't stations they don't completely screw up,
but there are some good ones out there.

Clear Channel and Infinity are both run basically "by the numbers."
That is to say, local managers can do pretty much what they want as
long as they meet their cash flow budgets. Conversely, they must cut
anything and everything if they don't, regardless of the impact on
operations. This style of management means the quality of the local
GM is really crucial. And as anyone who's been around the business a
while knows, the quality of general managers is wildly variable.

What amazes me is that Infinity owns a station out here... I don't recall
which one.

Infinity and Clear Channel both scooped up lots of marginal stations
by buying entire groups to get the better ones. Where they differ is
that Infinity really does not want to be in smaller markets, whereas
CCU seems to want to own everything it possibly can, everywhere.
However, even CCU has been sloughing off a few lately. The 1220 AM in
Canyon Country, CA was sold back to its former owner for less than a
third of what CCU paid for it. He was making money operating it --
they never did.

Mark Howell