Re: [IRCA] Clear Channel planning to sell off

[Milspec390@xxxxxxx]

Clear Channel cares about broadcasting the way Richard Speck cared about 
nurses. "I guess it just wasn't their night' Speck first depersonalized his quarry.

During the wretched 90's, Clear Channel substituted 'platform' for 'radio 
station'. Clear Channel execs gushingly spoke of acquiring the right number of 
'platforms'. The term depersonalizes radio stations. It means nothing yet 
reveals much.

 Drudge states listenership is down in all categories except drive. Free 
consult: Dump HD, hire talent. Start by hiring back those fired as 'platforms' 
were ''fine-tuned". Compelling programs grab & keep audiences. HD will lose what 
audiences remain.

Oddly - perhaps what these oligarch bugs most fear - small stations featuring 
local talent which covers local issues are flourishing. Is that why 
kleptoKasters are in such frenzy to get as many HD jammers on-air before anyone catches 
on? Too clever by half.

KorpseOration men stand for nothing, believe in nothing, and their product 
reflects it. HD is their last ditch cheat strategy to jam independent stations 
to ruin.

 HD cheerleaders smugly yap 'the public doesn't have a clue about HD' . By 
design, might one add, but the public has more than a clue. They get it in a 
second: "HD is what big broadcasters use to deny me what I want to hear and force 
me to listen only to them".

How will NAB, CC & cronies engineer their way around instinctive public grasp 
on reality?

Clear Channel 'platform' dump might be best thing in years and with 
counterintuitive results - processed cheese-food ex-'platforms' might fail while 
independents flourish. 

                                                                              
   Paul Vincent Zecchino 
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