Radio

I don’t have an Ipod so I am often at the mercy of the radio.The other day I was flipping stations and came to the realizatio that the last 4 stations I had passed were all playing the same song.I love GaGa as much as the next person but why were Power 106,KIIS FM,KROQ and STAR 98.7 all playing the same song?I decided to check the “Last 10 Songs Played” lists on all of these stations and came to this conclusion: they all play the same songs! Despite the fact that they all proclaim to cater to different genres of music.I understand that a lot of people have crossover tastes but if you claim to be the home of hip hop and R&B then it is a trifle odd that GaGa is on constant rotation.But then I looked at (O.K. Googled) who owned all of these stations and the logic became clear.ClearChannel owns all of these stations.And ClearChannel has ties to all of the record companies so it stands to reason that they would play the records.But what this illustrates is that the media is a small network that is run by a few people.

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