What I'd like to see is employee ownership. See if employees could do a better job than the current owners.
Well, then I'd like to recommend reading Po Bronson's
The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest.
I write to you from Silicon Valley where that novel is set. The basic premise a lot of Silicon Valley startup founders have is that now that they're in charge, they won't run their company like the very big company they escaped. (Sounds resonant with Clear Channel overtones on this thread thus far, including the New York Post 7/5/09 overtures.)
Want to know the big surprise? The little company founders form their own bureaucracy!
What happens to a lot of people is they get taken in by the fame aspects. There still is some kind of celebrity aspect to saying you work for a radio station. You then have this degree of control of who gets on and who doesn't. You think you can dominate everything and everyone. Then something happens on the way to heaven and it's back to reality (e.g., listeners who create their own playlist and say "Up yours!" without 7-second delay.)
What also happens is some people forget that they once started out as nothing. They start getting brainwashed by their own success. It never occurs to them that forces outside their control may reduce them back down to nothing. Of course, some are smart enough to build financial resources so even if they treat people like garbage (listeners, employees, and managers), they won't be hurt economically.
And now I offer these 3 movements in terms of this thread's title,
and the current penny stock disdain of CCMO.PathetiK:
M1 = By losing everything, it's like the Clear Channel sun's going down on me.
M2 = Sunrise, Sunset, swiftly flow the years!
M3 = It's summer, just in time for Donna Summer -- let's see what happens to Sunset People,
doing it right night after night.