It’s been a year already since I received a copy of the “home game” from Clear Channel Media & Entertainment IHeartMedia. While no reason was ever given, I’m sure the little missive below was reason enough. I get it and accept the punishment. I broke ranks. I thought some about how I would rewrite my…
As we lead up to the first anniversary of my infamous blog which pointed out issues with the so-called “fixes” proposed to help the struggling AM band, fixes that would simply increase interference on AM, I thought I’d lead into my anniversary celebration week with a quick snap shot of where we are with licensed…
Well I guess radio station lobbies will need some new signage! The name Clear Channel has been thrown on the heap of now gone radio companies. Jacor, AM/FM, Taft, Citicasters, Citadel, Clear Channel. All gone. We’ll now only get to remember the “good old days” of Clear Channel, just like when we watch the DVD…
I looked. Then I looked again. I rubbed my eyes. And looked a third time. Is this a parody from The Onion? Am I really reading this correctly? No. This isn’t from Talkers, the industry trade publication’s archives in 1965. This is from Talkers, the industry trade publication in August 2014! To quote the boxed…
“Diversity can never be the result of consolidation. It doesn’t work that way.” – Darryl Parks (You can quote me on this) Perry Michael Simon wrote a great piece on All Access.com last Friday explaining how radio would have ended up in the shape it’s in today…consolidation or no consolidation…big companies or little…
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