To Texas Radio Trolls (Especially Clear Channel)

[texastoast]

I'm so sorry for you guys and gals. There was a time when radio was a voice for righteousness, youth, and progress. No more (except, of course, certain public radio stations).

How sad you must be to no longer play the music that the public wishes to hear because you are owned--lock, stock, and barrel--by a bunch of suits. Radio no longer has its finger on the heartbeat of tomorrow. People like Lowry Mays (a shubito sycophant) made policies that are so worshipful of the mighty dollar. And he doesn't give a rat's ass about the music. To hear him and his ilk tell it, music just gets in the way of the money-making commercials.

And despite the bulldozer attempts to crush the Dixie Chicks or the refusal to play Anti-Flag punk, or the razz of "mince-no-words" Neil Young's new album (hell, I didn't even hear "Ohio" on the recent anniversary), we are listening. And it is not to you or your employer stations. And we are buying. But it is not from your advertising sponsors (because we don't know who a lot of them are--because we don't listen to you anymore). Would you pass that on to your bosses for me?

Meanwhile, I know there are gifted, funny, progressive people working for those mediocre corporate radio stations. I hope that you will work together to get radio back where it belongs, serving the people of all philosophies and persuasions. And serving them with integrity. It is so easy to give up your right to a free press and free airways and you are free to do so.

A BUNCH of us are unwilling. Never forget it.


Dixie Chicks Take "Long Way" to No. 1
"For the week ended May 24, Taking the Long Way debuted at number one . . . ."

Dixie Chicks' 'Long Way' Nests In At No. 1
For the third time in their career, the Dixie Chicks roost on the top of The Billboard 200.

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[muntrv]

1. Break up Clear Channel!!

The stuff on their stations is sooooooooohhhh uncreative.

[WolverineDG]

3. You know what's really sad?

When CC went right-wing whole hog, they completely destroyed their afternoon drive-time show on WOAI. They had 2 announcers & I don't recall the show tilting one way or the other, then one day they just up & moved one of the announcers to the early morning slot & stuck the remaining guy with some lunatic right-winger. Eventually the remaining guy left or got canned & the nut-job got the slot all to himself. Too bad, so sad, WOAI started losing its audience. I enjoyed listening to the original show on my frequent Friday afternoon drives up to San Antonio, but now that I have my Sirius sat rad, who gives a damn about WOAI or Clear Channel?

dg

[WolverineDG]

2. Here Here, TexasToast!

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Terrestrial radio had better wake the hell up or it's going the way of the dinosaur. Up to just a few years ago, companies such as Clear Channel could get away with offering only right-wing friendly formats they could use to stump for shrubbie. But now, more & more people are (1) buying I-pods & MP3 players, (2) streaming radio stations from other areas that broadcast programs they want to hear, (3) investing in satellite radio, or (4) all/combo of the above so that they can have some control over what they hear. By sticking to the right-wing agenda & ignoring evidence that most people want progressive programming, terrestrial radio is signing its own death warrant.

I know someone who knows the Mays family & he confirms they are all right-wing nutjobs.

dg

[texastoast]

4. I agree, especially the young audiences

And we young at heart who are not dignified enough to act our age!