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In reply to the discussion: We're still talking about him. [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)65. The FCC no longer works for the people who pay for it
to the tune of $350 million plus.
Unless someone flashes a nipple on TV, the FCC employees appear to stay under their desks picking their noses or - in the case of the more socially adept FCC employees - having nice long lunches with CLear Channel and Cumulus executives while arranging for their near complete monopoly of media.
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You're welcome! It would be great if the activism forum had a calendar with an alert function.
Luminous Animal
Dec 2011
#4
I checked to see if you had also posted this in Activism and I'm glad that you did.
Luminous Animal
Dec 2011
#15
Reading all this is like tuning a distant station, fading in and out, but urgently communicating
NBachers
Dec 2011
#18
I grew up on a small-town AM station that played the local top 100. No matter what.
saras
Dec 2011
#21
I sure miss the old days. Now you hear Sean Insanity ever 10 Kcs. on the dial.
BiggJawn
Dec 2011
#39
Thank you for this thread ! AM Radio DX'ing used to be my big hobby back in the '70's
steve2470
Dec 2011
#52
it wont come by screaming- it's going to take actions like tsiyu is describing, and others, like
certainot
Dec 2011
#106
I remember going on vacation as a kid and seeing how far from L.A. we could still get KFI.
trackfan
Dec 2011
#54
am 760 went prog before the 2006 elections and IMO was major in getting CO blue
certainot
Dec 2011
#105
I was thinking...that the "Plug could be pulled" on Twitter, Facebook and the Internet/Intertubes
KoKo
Dec 2011
#60
It was papa Bush and Bill Clinton who ended the duopoly restrictions that prohibited any one company
WCGreen
Dec 2011
#73
1996 Telecom Act Basically Gave Away the Public Airwaves In Return for Control
NashVegas
Dec 2011
#86
more important than the monopoly, IMO, is the the coordinated unchallenged lying that loss of the
certainot
Dec 2011
#95
i think sports on RW radio may be the biggest advantage RW radio has as far as ad revenue and
certainot
Dec 2011
#107
an organized challenge to RW radio will have a huge pos effect on next elections- good on all those
certainot
Dec 2011
#94
Lots of pro sports teams are broadcast on the most powerful AM radio stations ...
JEFF9K
Oct 2014
#108