Re: [dvd-discuss] ClearChannel Plays It Safe

["D. C. Sessions" <dcs(at)lumbercartel.com>]

On Tuesday 18 September 2001 08:41, you wrote:
> Radio stations have always made their own playlists.  Is
> this really any different from a station manager that hates
> Bob Dylan and never plays any of his songs?  What are you
> going to do, pass "equal time" legislation so that every
> song must be played once before you can ever repeat one?
> 
> I think this falls under the category of "overreacting".

Quantity has a quality all its own.  Arguably what one radio station
does is offset by the variety of other radio stations.  When you get
to the size of Clear Channel, though, you're starting to talk about
market forclosure.

This is sort of the flip side (for those of us old enough to remember
where *that* term came from!) of the payola issue, where Clear
Channel gets very valuable "considerations" for adding titles to
their playlist.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dean Sanchez [mailto:DSanchez@fcci-group.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:37 AM
> > To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > Subject: [dvd-discuss] ClearChannel Plays It Safe
> > 
> > 
> > The fallout continues.  It's hard enough to fight government 
> > censorship
> > and threats to civil liberties, but what can we do when a company
> > controls a public media (it owns over 1,200 radio stations) and
> > exercises it's own brand of censorship?   And where will it 
> > stop?  When
> > a company this size has quasi-governmental power over the public
> > airwaves, how do you ensure the public's stake?
> > 
> > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/18/1228210.shtml
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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