SBC woes

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:42:29PM -0500, Rick Mitchell wrote:
> > I mean, has anti-monopoly even -glanced- at this deal?  The whole thing
> > positively reeks of ClearChannel-type rubberstamping.
> 
> As a former Radio Guy who sees a lot of stations in a lot of markets,
> everyone talks about Clear Channel, but they only put on automation systems
> rather than try to be local.

And, to go even further off topic, the sales pitch *I* heard for
allowing Claer Channel to own every station in the market was that the
ability to sell advertisers cross-fleet ads would make it more likely
that we'd hear off beat formats, like straight-ahead jazz.

To the best of my knowledge, this hasn't happened once.

I really want to put up a website called promises.org...

Cheers,
-- jra
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