10.03.2003


This is an interesting site that lets you see how much of the radio waves in your town are owned by media giants. Surprisingly Nashville is 82% other. I clicked around a little and that is pretty standard for TN except for Chattanooga which has 23% owned by Clear Channel Communications and only 68% other.
Clear Channel is "clearly" the biggest conglomerate. I bet you won't try to win that 1,000,000 call in prize now since you are competing with roughly 20% of the listening audiance in the entire United States!

It wasn't too long ago that that the communication companies could start buying more than a limitted amount of waves in any given market. Now we have an endless supply of "Battle of the Sexes" contests, pee-on intern jokes, and celebrity news available in the morning. Britney and freinds will be making a little more bank for their preselected months of fame and the local owned stations will get all the cool listeners and the cool listeners will win the free tickets to cool local concerts.

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