Folks....mega-owners like Clear Channel ARE censorship.
I did radio for 23 years, mainly morning shows in Top 50 markets (Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, Milwaukee, etc.), and yes, I even worked for Clear Channel.
Have an idea, thought, side on an issue that THEY didn't agree with and find yourself without a job. If you remotely knew what was going on behind those walls you would be shocked and dissapointed that so few could hold power over what so many hear in this country.
Before the early 1990's, listeners had Bressler's 33 flavors or quality radio programming. You had to work hard and be talented to succeed and be rewarded with great ratings.
Now...automation, voice tracking, and the satallite dish deliver one flavor...VANILLA.
The mega-owners like Clear Channel, Cumulus, etc. gobbled up stations like a corporate Pacman and made hundreds of thousands of people
unemployed in the name of "consolodation".
Stations that were #1 with a 21 share 15 years ago struggle to get a 4 share in their target audience, and things are so bad that many general sales managers are selling based on VOLUME, not ratings.
GOOD LUCK if their is a tornado warning in your area and the EAS system fails to fire off, because no one is there to go on live and warn you that your backside is about to go airborne.
Radio on this country was built on the huge responsibility to "serve the public interest and necessity".
Radio, since federal deregulation, has only served to pad the bank accounts of millionaires who saw a loophole and a weekness in law and exploited it.
You get vanilla.
