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[IRCA] Clear Channel
- Subject: [IRCA] Clear Channel
- From: "Karl J. Zuk" <karlzuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 05:24:16 -0400
Clear Channel is a huge success short-term. Radio is a business and Clear
Channel excels in efficent cost-effective consolidation and mass-marketing.
Long-term problems will kill them. People are switching to I-pods, Satellite
and the Internet to hear new tunes with much more variety. Time condensing
audio processing and heavy commercial loads make drive-time radio
unlistenable. Take away all local content and the result is mass alienation.
The cherry on the cake: IBOC. Let's make analog free radio technically
impossible to listen to! Sirius and XM are sitting on a gold mine! The
traditional radio industry could not destroy itself any better! It breaks
my heart because it used to be so much fun to be in radio and enjoy it as a
listener. When was the last time you heard the name of a song mentioned? In
New York City, you can hear songs for years and not know what they are. It
reminds me off the old diner routine with John Belushi on SNL. You take
cheeseburger and a Pepsi because that's all we offer. Don't like it? Next in
line please! I vote for satellite radio to compete directly with traditional
radio with local content. The NAB and Clear Channel have destroyed our fun.
If we take our ears elsewhere, the worth of their billion dollar business
will evaporate. Thanks for listening to my rant. I mourn the loss of my
favorite medium every day. Remember when you used to want to listen to the
radio? When you looked forward to listening to the radio? Karl Zuk N2KZ
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