 rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: Martin defends media ownership rules ... this business model is what destroyed the entertainment business. by allowing Clear Channel to buy all the radio stations nation wide they then began to fire employees to cut costs and played the exact radio format in every city. it was a failure of epic proportions. they failed to take into account that every market is different, people have different tastes. essentially they destroyed radio. myspace, streaming, their success was in part a reaction by people who didn't want to hear what the bad content Clear Channel allowed them to hear. they sought out other sources of content.
this has already happened with allowing one company to own all the tv stations. I recall last year somewhere in the midwest there was a horrible storm and there was no more local rado or tv stations and they couldn't alert people to the problem. I live in a big city and the first section I read everyday is the city section to see what's going on. communities will suffer greatly without good local content. |
