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I Radio Satan
I radio satan
I get mixed signals
I move the antenna
I get Clear Channel....
Bill Moyers' series on PBS did an episode on communications; monopolstic
cable TV rates rising, and Clear Channel figuring out how to graphically
assemble radio programs on a computer. i.e., lay a recorded custom intro
over a song so it ends when the vocal starts, building hours. like that
for tens of stations, sending it out on satellite, making it sound
local.
What are the hidden problems of Clear channel? They KILL any chance of
local news, rather important service of radio, because of the varying
size of television news markets. Market #1, New York, might have cable
TV news covering Manhattan, and another organization covering Long
Island, whereas people who live halfway between Kansas City, and
Joplin, Missouri, can't depend on TV stations from either market to
cover any news, short of a raging brush fire, caused by an airplane
crash.
No one seems to answer those local request lines, I have a hunch that
they know that Elton John, Britney Spears, P Diddy, Shania Twain, and
System Of A Down are what you need to hear.
Like TV networks in the early nineties, the amount of commercials per
hour is creeping upward.
Clear Channel is also into billboards, and concert promotion. If you use
your billboards to effectively establish the dominance of your stations,
then you can use your stations to establish the dominance of your
concerts. The Clear Channel ticket prices examined seemed very high, and
the reason for that seemed to be the need to pay for having wildly
outbid all of the local promoters.
Get used to those $75 Bonnie Raitt tickets, I guess.
N.P.-> The Echoing Green- "Supernova"
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