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The Recording Industry, Radio Broadcast Organizations, The FCC, and Large Communications Companies have turned the world of broadcast radio into a soul-less pre-fabricated marketing tool. The lines that should exist between the people who sell and market music, and the people who deliver the music to the public, no longer exist. The majority of the most "Popular" music you hear on the radio was decided in a boardroom, before any radio listener had ever heard the music. In many cases bands are either hunted, groomed, or created from scratch to fill the a particular marketing need. If you want to play in the "boys club" you have to pay them millions to insure that they'll play your music enough to insure "pop status". The majority of major Commercial FM stations in the US are owned by less than 5 companies, these companies also have ties with the recording industry, and aggressively market bands that reflect that interest. The Radio station owners interests are in direct conflict with delivering "music and news in the best interest of the public". With the deregulation of radio, large communications companies are free to buy up and/or shut down and radio stations that can't afford to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to save themselves. Advertisers are afraid to go with radio stations that don't ally themselves with, or sell themselves to, these giants. The FCC policy on the creation of a radio station is directly catered to foster this type of behavior. The FCC policy is designed specifically to hamper the creation of small or independent radio stations in the US. The FCC policy further insures this by actually providing an avenue for large corporations to halt the creation of any "Non Alliance" stations they wish. "In the FCC’s own rules and regulations, it is written that they must regulate the airwaves in the interest of the public. They don’t do that. They regulate the airwaves in the interest of the corporation, who regulates their station in the interest of the advertiser. That’s the chain of command." -Kevin Hoffman |
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