[Rumori] fwd: Clear Channel and Pirate Radio

[Jon Nelson]

Apologies if this has been posted already, I see Stay
Free is mentioned near the end. Someone at Radio K
just posted this to their listserv...
Jon Nelson

www.PostConsumerProductions.com

> > Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
> > New York Times
> > May 30, 2005
> >
> > Clear Channel in a Stealth Promotional Campaign
> >
> > By ROBERT LEVINE
> >
> > To the average listener, Radio Free Ohio has all
> the earmarks of pirate
> > radio. For weeks, it sounded as if amateurs had
> been bleeding their  
> > voices
> > into the broadcasts of stations in Akron, Ohio,
> owned by Clear  
> > Channel, the
> > corporate radio giant. At the Web site
> www.radiofreeohio.com,  there 
> > was a
> > manifesto about "corporate-controlled music
> playlists" that took  
> > potshots at
> > several local Clear Channel stations. But there
> was no  information 
> > about who
> > had posted the screed, or what exactly Radio Free
> Ohio  was.
> >
> > But last week it came out that Radio Free Ohio was
> not a prank on  
> > Clear
> > Channel but in fact a prank by Clear Channel.
> Tomorrow, an AM station  
> > the
> > company owns in Akron will switch formats from
> sports talk to  
> > progressive
> > talk, and Clear Channel would very much like
> anyone suspicious of  
> > corporate
> > media to tune in.
> >
> > "Once we determined we were going to  change the
> format, we tried to 
> > get into
> > the mindset of people who would  listen to this
> new station," said Dan
> > Lankford, vice president and market  manager for
> Clear Channel in 
> > Akron. That
> > mindset may involve a suspicion of  Clear Channel
> itself, which has 
> > used
> > loosened rules on media ownership to  build a
> radio empire.
> >
> > That Clear Channel owned the www.radiofreeohioorg 
> Web site was 
> > revealed on
> > www.stayfreemagazine.org, a magazine and blog
> about  advertising and 
> > popular
> > culture. Stay Free's editor, Carrie McLaren, said 
> that she had 
> > learned the
> > information from someone who had seen it on an
> Akron  Web site. "In a 
> > way
> > it's the heart of the problem with Clear Channel,"
> Ms.  McLaren said 
> > of the
> > manifesto. " 'We're this huge corporation and we
> do  everything to 
> > fake being
> > local.' "
> >
> > Naturally, Clear Channel disagrees.  "Clear
> Channel, as I see it, is
> > dedicated to entertaining radio and to  getting
> results for our 
> > advertisers,"
> > Mr. Lankford said, noting that the  company owns
> both conservative and
> > progressive talk radio stations. "There's  a hole
> in the market here 
> > and
> > we're going to fill  it."
> >
> > Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
> 


		
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