Telamon wrote:

You have a slight descriptive problem in your post. It's alternative
conservative talk radio and monopoly liberal hate radio when you
consider the entirety of the media.


Not so.

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The radio landscape makes clear that concentration will hurt the

media. After the FCC and Congress relaxed radio ownership rules,

corporate giant Clear Channel Communications swept in and bought

hundreds of stations. Clear Channel has used its might to support

pro-war political rallies and conservative talk shows, keep anti-war

songs off its stations, coerce musicians into playing free promotional

concerts, and bully them into performing at its music venues. In many

towns that used to have a diverse array of radio options, Clear

Channel is now the only thing on the dial.

http://www.lpbn.org/300.htm

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Where were Minot's DJs on January 18th, 2002? Where was the late night
station crew? As it turns out, six of the seven local radio stations
had recently been purchased by Clear Channel Communications, a radio
giant with over 1,200 stations nationwide. Economies of scale dictated
that most of the local staff be cut: Minot stations ran more or less
on auto pilot, the programming largely dictated from further up the
Clear Channel food chain. No one answered the phone because hardly
anyone worked at the stations any more; the songs played in Minot were
the same as those played on Clear Channel stations across the Midwest.

http://www.quicktopic.com/21/H/Syu5aSps8V7dF

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