This is not true: From Tom Taylor at this very website:
Turns out Clear Channel classic rockers are playing the new Springsteen.
More on the story from yesterday, where Fox News columnist Roger Friedman chastised Clear Channel for supposedly sending “an edict to its classic rock stations not to play tracks from ‘Magic.’” I told you that I doubted that. Now Clear Channel-Harrisburg Director of Operations Chris Tyler emails me that “We’ve been playing ‘Radio Nowhere’ for two months, and we never heard anything from above about boycotting Bruce.” Another T-R-I reader and avid Bruce Springsteen fan says the Fox report is “B.S. – Clear Channel’s WAXQ, New York was all over the release of the single and the album, and the shows in New York and New Jersey.” As for non-classic rock stations, Clear Channel AAA stations like KBCO, Denver are playing Columbia Records’ “work” track of “Radio Nowhere.” Can radio respond quickly enough to stuff like this? Well – they’re trying, as I discovered at CC’s “Know the Facts” webpage…
Clear Channel busts another “Myth.”
Sure enough, there at the top of the Know The Facts section – new since I wrote about this yesterday – is the myth that CC radio “directed its stations not to play music from Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Magic’ CD.” Then comes “Fact: although CC owns only 8% of the radio stations in U.S., in the first days of the CD’s release, airplay of music from the disc on CC stations represented a full 21% of the total radio airplay in the U.S., including airplay from satellite radio. That’s according to stats from Mediabase. Further, Clear Channel Radio stations played music from the CD more than twice as much as the next radio broadcaster, which came in at less than 10% of total U.S. airplay.” So give San Antonio an “A” for responding quickly. But can they punch through all the noise out there?
