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Infinity CEO Won't Apologize

Re: He has every right to do what he did!!!!!

> If a
> twenty or thirty something cried about their format being
> taken off, they would get the standard "You don't always get
> what you want, you young people have horrible music..."

But they do have horrible music! (So did my generation, mostly.)

> bla-bla-bla. But oh boy, we take off an oldies station and
> it's as if someone murdered someone.

No.

When they kill a jazz station or a big band station or a classical station (which I've experienced once, twice, and three times, respectively) that's murder.

Taking away the oldest oldies by converting to a mid-60s and 70s playlist is more like slow poisoning. (Converting Oldies to Jack would be poisoning PLUS torture.)

I'm technically a baby boomer, but I think music started going to hell by the time Nixon was elected (1968 for the historically challenged). You figure it out.

Yes, Infinity had the right to change it, of course. Just like Clear Channel, Cox, and Salem had the right to make three unpopular flips
here earlier this year. But if station ownership weren't concentrated in so few companies, we'd have more choices and the changes wouldn't be so traumatic: another company would start an oldies station.

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> The arrogance and greed of public media ownership in this
> country is beyond apology. Terrestrial radio and TV
> broadcasting channels are, by Federal law, public property,
> although they haven't been treated that way for years.
> Perhaps things are changing. Congress is beginning to
> involve itself in a rewrite of the 1996 Telecom Act. Some on
> this site have suggested that its time for government-owned
> media (like a US BBC) to return the airwaves to the people.

During the Afghan war, it was widely reported that the Beeb (BBC) had become so extremist that it is no longer heard on Her Majesty's ships (is the Royal Navy the correct term?).

Do we need something ever further out than NPR? No.

More government broadcasting is not the answer.

Just FIX the oligopoly that rules radio now.
FIX the 1200-station gorilla. (Pun intended.)

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> Making the airwaves private will be the single best policy
> for revitalizing radio.
> Steven Green, a proud Capitalist and
> Member of The Libertarian Party

Why aren't you on the air in Florida? We need you.

(And I thought you must live near the Peppertree Shopping Center!)

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No, repeat NO government broadcasting IS the answer. And it is about time that the airwaves were released to broadcasters to do as they want with them instead of the current Socialist system of state ownership of the airwaves.

I do think that broadcasters should pay for ownership. It could help the national debt.

> More government broadcasting is not the answer.
>
> Just FIX the oligopoly that rules radio now.
> FIX the 1200-station gorilla. (Pun intended.)
>
> 73s from 954
>
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