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	<title>Comments on: Behind the Curtain at Clear Channel</title>
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		<title>by: Sage</title>
		<link>http://www.beforethemusicdies.com/blog/2007/02/01/behind-the-curtain-at-clear-channel/#comment-21133</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>For the most part, you guys are right on--but I have to comment on what you said here: &quot;have you really given your great local independent and college radio stations a chance?&quot; 

There are some &quot;college&quot; radio stations who claim to be about the music (like KEXP in Seattle, for example), but in reality they only play music that has a connection or an affiliation to the majors--directly or indirectly. It's one big sorry clique. College radio stations that operate in this way do a great disservice to the listeners they serve, because they are deciding for the people what they should hear, and not letting the people decide for themselves whether they like or dislike a certain song, artist, or band; irregardless of a major label affiliation.  It's not enough to say &quot;independent music&quot; anymore, because an &quot;independent label&quot; backed by a major label is not truly independent. Their major label backing gets them a hall pass to the airwaves, the media, and it brings down market-entry barriers for them. An example of such a barrier can be found at CBS, which has been known to discriminate against true independent music. This was revealed in an e-mail from the program director at their San Diego radio station KYXY, “Our parent company CBS Radio has set strict guidelines which do not allow our stations to accept or air product distributed by any source other than recognized major labels.” I noticed that a person from CBS is speaking in this film. I find it a bit odd that a person from CBS would even be in this in this film unless they were a disgruntled past employee; which it appears this person is not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the most part, you guys are right on&#8211;but I have to comment on what you said here: &#8220;have you really given your great local independent and college radio stations a chance?&#8221; </p>
<p>There are some &#8220;college&#8221; radio stations who claim to be about the music (like KEXP in Seattle, for example), but in reality they only play music that has a connection or an affiliation to the majors&#8211;directly or indirectly. It&#8217;s one big sorry clique. College radio stations that operate in this way do a great disservice to the listeners they serve, because they are deciding for the people what they should hear, and not letting the people decide for themselves whether they like or dislike a certain song, artist, or band; irregardless of a major label affiliation.  It&#8217;s not enough to say &#8220;independent music&#8221; anymore, because an &#8220;independent label&#8221; backed by a major label is not truly independent. Their major label backing gets them a hall pass to the airwaves, the media, and it brings down market-entry barriers for them. An example of such a barrier can be found at CBS, which has been known to discriminate against true independent music. This was revealed in an e-mail from the program director at their San Diego radio station KYXY, “Our parent company CBS Radio has set strict guidelines which do not allow our stations to accept or air product distributed by any source other than recognized major labels.” I noticed that a person from CBS is speaking in this film. I find it a bit odd that a person from CBS would even be in this in this film unless they were a disgruntled past employee; which it appears this person is not.
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