tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10228523619340384.post4694341762336560308..comments2024-03-28T00:22:43.204-07:00Comments on Rex and the Bass: Los Angeles Radiorexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15648858770612741967noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10228523619340384.post-65637327794615151602010-05-25T23:04:17.107-07:002010-05-25T23:04:17.107-07:00Salon has an older article on pay-for-play here, a...Salon has an older article on pay-for-play <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2001/03/14/payola" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and one by Courtney Love <a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I have no idea why LA radio would be worse than anything else--I still much prefer it to the DC or Baltimore airwaves--but I think the 1996 Telecommunications Act goes at least part of the way toward explaining it. I'd hypothesize that Clear Channel's goal isn't profit, but market share, because the latter is what leads to homogeneity, which in turn leads to both profit <i>and</i> support for a corporatist/neocon agenda. If that's true, then it seems like LA is a good place to start, because if you can control the airwaves of sprawling SoCal, the rest of the country will fall in line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com