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REPEAL PORTIONS OF THE TELECOM ACT OF 1996????

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80sjock

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When you look back to the signing of the Telecom Act of 1996, it was really to hasten the installation of high speed networks to provide internet to all areas and open up competition. What does that have to do with radio and TV? I say we start a coalition to repeal this act and remove station ownership guidelines from the mix. This act pretty much zapped all the passion out of a business that was fun. Automation occcured and stations like CC told us what to play. Consultants reared their head even more into our studios t make things sound so canned.

Can the damage be reversed? Radio is dying a slow death. Consolidation has sped up the process

Any thoughts?
 
I agree with you wholeheartedly, unfortunately. Today's big corps have killed the great spirit of Radio Past. It was never meant to be the voice of big business. How the hell did that happen?

While I'd love to see the act repealed and a return to days when smaller companies could still be competitive, I don't think it will happen anytime soon. The radio industry will have to go thru some kind of a life (death) cycle. Terrestrial radio will likely continue its slide into oblivion until the big guys lose enough cash and decide to abandon it to the little guys again -- much like pre-1996!

Once the big guys are gone, someone will try a "radio resurrection" and find some real talent to grace the airwaves once again.

At least, that's my dream...
 
Lobbyists and our corrupt federal government will keep the repeal of this act. When you look back, it was the only thing I hated about the CLinton admin.

More than likely, Clearchannel and Citadel and other large companies have lobbyists planted up there in DC to keep this act in place. Has Farid Suleman or the Mays Family taken FCC Kevin Martin out for lunch or dinner? I'm sure.

And more than likely, lunches are paid for, as well as dinners, and cash is exchanged hands to keep laws like this on the books. Call it payola for our federal government???

Radio is not the last place to hear your favorite new song though. I think if you ask most people though, they want choice and they don't want a consultant telling them what to play.

Our consultant was out of Atlanta at my old station and I'm thinking (A). This guy is retarded thinking just because it is liked in Atlanta, it will be liked in Charleston. Charleston is it's own animal and we need to get the consultants out of radio.

Matter of fact, I'll go as far as saying that radio consulting is a "legal' form of robbery, not only to the radio companies, but to the listeners.
 
The Clinton admin did a few more things than just the 1996 act that helped kill radio but that is another story. I will agree every area of the country is different and therefore has a life all there own, radio should reflect that and the area that it servers. Ownership of radio stations has become too big and too corprate in other words money money and more money. I hope there well be something to bring real radio back to the air waves but it hasn't happened yet, maybe in the future.
 
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