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WFNX being sold to Clear Channel

Mindich willingly sold the station to Clear Channel. The folks who put a great station on the air decided to sell to CC. Shame? Perhaps. But it's not like someone forced him to sell to
Clear Channel. His decision. Maybe these folks should make their case for continuing alt-rock
to Clear Channel, in the event the sale is approved.

Freedom of the press/speech
http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/201...s-have-it-easy-compared-to-much-of-the-world/

>>the FCC does not consider format issues - even where there are citizens complaints about a proposed change in format or a sale of a station that will probably lead to such a change. In fact, just last Friday, the FCC again reached that same conclusion, finding that it will not prevent a sale because the sale will result in a format change. The FCC has determined that format choices are a business decision protected by the First Amendment, so broadcasters are free to change at will, without the government interfering in these programming decisions.
 
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment has to be investigated and brought down to size! We just can't afford to have homogenized radio across the country!
 
blackgold said:
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment has to be investigated and brought down to size! We just can't afford to have homogenized radio across the country!
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Why? What is the tangible destructive effect of "homogenized radio" on this country or you individually? Is it infringing on your civil rights? Is it hurting your earning power?
 
We can't afford to have big restaurant chains or TV networks.

NBC should only be allowed in certain markets. Too much homogenized TV!

The FCC should regulate all formats and will monitor what talk hosts say to ensure that all sides are heard. Thus, "The Tea Party Show" will begin to air on WBUR and/or WGBH. Fair is fair...

(/sarcasm)
 
raccoonradio said:
Maybe these folks should make their case for continuing alt-rock to Clear Channel, in the event the sale is approved.
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When the board that I was a member of decided to look into selling our FM radio license in 2010, we received hundreds of comments like the ones in the FCC petition above. I promised to read each one, and I did. And just like these comments to the FCC regarding Clear Channel, I read a lot of "don't do it!" and "you suck!" comments - but not a lot of "here is a logical proposal…"-type ones.

(that's not to say that all of the comments were unhelpful… a number of comments brought up major concerns that we did work to mitigate when we later decided to sell the license. A few comments mentioned moving our programming to an HD subchannel if the license were sold, which ended up being the route that was taken.)

P1 listeners of WFNX are going to speak with passion in a situation regarding the end of their favorite station, but not always with logic.
 
oh no my station in which the city of boston and a few ppl in-the area can hear is going away what am i to do???
 
If Boston.com wants to pick up WFNX, then that's their call. Personally, I think that it's a great move. Internet radio is coming into its own and it shows. For once, I'm going to agree with the message board experts for once. It's a business and if Mindich thinks that he can make a profit off of whatever seemingly shitty replacement for 'FNX, then that's his call. Personally, I think that's his call and if he goes the way of "Curt In The Car" Schilling and fails, then that's his failure. Teach the baby that the stove is hot.
 
raccoonradio said:
We can't afford to have big restaurant chains or TV networks.

NBC should only be allowed in certain markets. Too much homogenized TV!

The FCC should regulate all formats and will monitor what talk hosts say to ensure that all sides are heard. Thus, "The Tea Party Show" will begin to air on WBUR and/or WGBH. Fair is fair...

(/sarcasm)
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I don't have a problem with fast food. If people want it, it is OK by me. I even eat it myself from time to time.

It is just that I can't imagine a town where EVERY restaurant is a fast food joint with a national menu and no local flavor.

But that won't happen because anyone can start a restaurant just about anyplace.

With radio there are a limited amount of commercial frequencies and the big ones are usually so expensive and debt-ridden that just about the only way they can make a profit these days is to lean it down into a fast food joint.

Now, I don't want legislation or anything like that to try to "fix the problem" because there really isn't a problem. I simply don't listen to that much radio anymore. I stream interesting stuff on my smartphone, or occasionally hit one of the public stations (WERS, WMBR, etc) or WBZ or GBH/BUR for the news. I just don't travel to the commercial music stations anymore. It is not my problem. It is THEIRS. They lost me.

As far as "equal time" goes, I am against that, except in instances where someone who is not a public figure was attacked by name. The days of people like Jerry Williams and Long John Nebel, neither of whom lockstepped to any ideology, are over. The only successful talk shows on commercial radio these days are those which lockstep to a particular ideology which pulls in the whole "affirmation" crowd instead of the people who are truly curious about an issue and want to hear both sides. There are some (welcome) exceptions: Dan Rea on WBZ, Diane Rehm, maybe a couple of others. But again, that's OK. Its a business. Affirmation talk radio works in the ratings, so who can blame the stations? There are obviously more people interested in "affirmation" than are curious about the 360 of an issue.
 
HHH said:
As far as "equal time" goes, I am against that, except in instances where someone who is not a public figure was attacked by name. The days of people like Jerry Williams and Long John Nebel, neither of whom lockstepped to any ideology, are over. The only successful talk shows on commercial radio these days are those which lockstep to a particular ideology which pulls in the whole "affirmation" crowd instead of the people who are truly curious about an issue and want to hear both sides. There are some (welcome) exceptions: Dan Rea on WBZ, Diane Rehm, maybe a couple of others.
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Dan Rea! I remember when he started at 'BZ in the mid-'70s. I thought he was as rigid a right-wing ideologue as there was -- very unusual for someone just out of college and living in Boston. The extremes are way more extreme these days, aren't they?
 
WFNX's site actually did allow at least one comment that brought up the rival stream from BDC
(Boston.com)
>>isn't the real question whether we should continue to support "WFNX," a/k/a the intellectual property Mindich/PMG saw fit to retain while firing all the talent, or hop over to #RadioBDC, which saw fit to hire the talent and build a new platform around them? You can call your web station "WFNX" but WFNX's heart and soul are gone.......

A tweet from PaulDriscoll:
>>The new home of @HenrySantoro, @kramerjulie, @adamxii, and @ThePDriscoll is now on twitter. Follow us @RadioBDC! #RadioBDC
 
CTListener said:
HHH said:
As far as "equal time" goes, I am against that, except in instances where someone who is not a public figure was attacked by name. The days of people like Jerry Williams and Long John Nebel, neither of whom lockstepped to any ideology, are over. The only successful talk shows on commercial radio these days are those which lockstep to a particular ideology which pulls in the whole "affirmation" crowd instead of the people who are truly curious about an issue and want to hear both sides. There are some (welcome) exceptions: Dan Rea on WBZ, Diane Rehm, maybe a couple of others.
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Dan Rea! I remember when he started at 'BZ in the mid-'70s. I thought he was as rigid a right-wing ideologue as there was -- very unusual for someone just out of college and living in Boston. The extremes are way more extreme these days, aren't they?
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Don't remember what he did back in the 70s, but Dan's shows today are generally balanced and don't contain a lot of diatribe. He certainly has his opinions but they are not based on the holders of the opposing viewpoints being "America-hating lefty Communists" or "Evil right-wing Facists".

That is rare in commercial talk radio these days.
 
"The voice of reason, because I believe reasonable people can disagree reasonably". He will have Dem and Rep politicians on equally; Liz Warren might go on his show. On Howie's? Er, no. (As for
fascism, conservative author Jonah Goldberg feels fascism comes out of the left as he argued in one book, but, his opinion...)
 
raccoonradio said:
(As for fascism, conservative author Jonah Goldberg feels fascism comes out of the left as he argued in one book, but, his opinion...)
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Jonah Goldberg? Goldberg is a bomb-throwing showboater, hardly a mainstream conservative. Hates the French with a strange obsession. Insists on calling them "frogs" over and over and thinks it is amusing.

Using Goldberg as an example of conservatism is like using Dennis Kucinich as an example of a liberalism.

But anyway, back to radio..........
 
Fenway1912 said:
FCC releases the complaints they have received about the sale

www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2012/jun/21/fcc-gets-earful-after-clear-channels-wfnx-takeover/
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They are public record anyways. Once the Form 314 is filed with the feds, all the objections will go along with it.

However if the application is defective (i.e. it doesn't violate any of the FCC's rules), except those objections to be rejected and the assignment of license to be granted. The most these will do is delay the actual assignment.
 
HHH said:
raccoonradio said:
(As for fascism, conservative author Jonah Goldberg feels fascism comes out of the left as he argued in one book, but, his opinion...)
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Jonah Goldberg? Goldberg is a bomb-throwing showboater, hardly a mainstream conservative. Hates the French with a strange obsession. Insists on calling them "frogs" over and over and thinks it is amusing.

Using Goldberg as an example of conservatism is like using Dennis Kucinich as an example of a liberalism.

But anyway, back to radio..........
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thought this was a WFNX thread
 
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