Today's Boston Globe has an editorial about country and pop singers and their views on the war.
It says Clear Channel dumped the Dixie Chicks as a result of the controversy; actually I think
that was Cumulus. It's possible some individual CC country stations (not sure who) may have
done listener polls re: airing of Chicks music, but as a company-wide policy, it was probably
Cumulus...
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2007/02/13/speak_up_and_sing/
USAToday, March 2003: "According to the R&R Hot Fax Country Update news sheet Tuesday, Cumulus Media has instructed all 42 of its country stations to stop playing the group's music until further notice."
Capitalism magazine: "Cumulus Broadcasting is even banning the Chicks from all its 260 stations. "
Seattle Times: ""By the time Cumulus (Broadcasting) banned Dixie Chicks songs, almost every independently owned country station had already done so.""
The following article mentions that _two_ CC stations banned the Chicks but said nothing about the
company as a whole.
http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2003/03/17/daily14.html
And CC states the following:
>> * MYTH: Clear Channel radio stations banned air-play of the Dixie Chicks after political comments.
o FACT: The radio company that banned the Dixie Chicks was Cumulus Media, not Clear Channel. That company also hosted the CD-smashing ceremony outside its Atlanta, Ga. headquarters...
In reality, and in response to forceful and overwhelming demands from local listeners, some Clear Channel radio stations increased airplay of the group's music in the weeks after Natalie Maines made her comments; other Clear Channel radio stations temporarily suspended airplay."
http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=1167&p=hidden
It says Clear Channel dumped the Dixie Chicks as a result of the controversy; actually I think
that was Cumulus. It's possible some individual CC country stations (not sure who) may have
done listener polls re: airing of Chicks music, but as a company-wide policy, it was probably
Cumulus...
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2007/02/13/speak_up_and_sing/
USAToday, March 2003: "According to the R&R Hot Fax Country Update news sheet Tuesday, Cumulus Media has instructed all 42 of its country stations to stop playing the group's music until further notice."
Capitalism magazine: "Cumulus Broadcasting is even banning the Chicks from all its 260 stations. "
Seattle Times: ""By the time Cumulus (Broadcasting) banned Dixie Chicks songs, almost every independently owned country station had already done so.""
The following article mentions that _two_ CC stations banned the Chicks but said nothing about the
company as a whole.
http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2003/03/17/daily14.html
And CC states the following:
>> * MYTH: Clear Channel radio stations banned air-play of the Dixie Chicks after political comments.
o FACT: The radio company that banned the Dixie Chicks was Cumulus Media, not Clear Channel. That company also hosted the CD-smashing ceremony outside its Atlanta, Ga. headquarters...
In reality, and in response to forceful and overwhelming demands from local listeners, some Clear Channel radio stations increased airplay of the group's music in the weeks after Natalie Maines made her comments; other Clear Channel radio stations temporarily suspended airplay."
http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=1167&p=hidden