dennisMar 6th, 2007 - 21:31:43

I'm going to take a wait and see attititude here. I gave up listening to mainstream radio long ago. The playlists are bland. Programming lacks soul and creativity. The 'enforced hilarity' of DJ's is annoying. The fact that there aren't even DJ's, just on-air personalities is even more annoying.
I'm old enough to remember the golden days of AM radio where it was possible to hear the gospel of the Edwin Hawkins Singers followed by the psyechedelia of The Jefferson Airplane, and FM radio experimented with even more formats. I'm also current enough to appreciate everything from Fallout Boy to The Shins to Missy Elliot to Hank Williams III. The broadcast industry is full of dishonesty and deception in the service of making money, not breaking artists outside the grip of major labels. Let's see.

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LarryMar 6th, 2007 - 21:32:24

Horray for Elliot Spitzer who, like every other radio listener, knew form listening to the same songs played over and over again, that graft was present in the dying free radio stations and did something about it.

Unlike most politicians, Mr. Spitzer is for the regular folks.

Elliot Spitzer for President!

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DaleMar 6th, 2007 - 21:39:35

I now understand why FM radio sucks so bad. Companies are so tapped out of creativity that they replace their lack of originality with cash. So afraid to let the market decide. So afraid of being a real person. Hiding behind your money and perceived influence. How honorable for Mr. Levin to try to sound like a good person. I don't need to insult the industry. They will eat themselves soon enough. These children that you spit on are quite aware what they are going through.

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Payola for radio playMar 6th, 2007 - 22:36:29

I always wondered why Top 40 for the last 10 years was the most utterly and hopelessly undercooked porridge.

I've found it baffling that since 1993 there have no new equivalents of Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Hound-dog Taylor and the Houserockers, Aerosmith, or Lynyrd Skynyrd. The music world seemed to have died right after Nirvana, Beck, and Offspring.

Y2K seems to be the day the music died. The FCC got diseased with a Republican appointee majority and allowed unlimited radio station consolidation. To pay off their freshly leveraged buyouts, Clear Channel etc. turfed all their local, long haired DJs, and have now given us FOX's American Idols.

Mass media consolidation and payola are the clearest explanation for how FOX's American Idols have come to dominante the recent Grammies. No individual glorified on prime time TV will ever produce something truly worth remembering. It is only logical that any band of accomplished musicians that has developed it's product in front of bottle lobbing bar patrons would produce something far more enduring and memorable.

I would like to thank Eloit Spitzer from the bottom of my heart for targeting the media industry control freaks to loosen up and make this world a better place to live for the rest of us. I think the damage that the big 4 radio station groups have perpetrated on American culture has finally been found.

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TomTheToeMar 6th, 2007 - 22:38:59

The 8,400 1/2 hr segments will take place at 2:30 am and it will be business as usual.

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MattMar 7th, 2007 - 01:23:02

Re: Pay for Payola!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Read the damn Telecommunications act of 1996 that Clinton signed, that had certain provisions in it. But, thats typical of liberals who talk out their a!@!!! Before making your self feel good by looking at what you typed maybe you should do a little research. Big Corporations are whats ruining America. Political parties are just like border patrol, corrupted. So who will stand up for the people?

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lolMar 7th, 2007 - 02:30:37

This is a joke, they'll just shove the programs into the late night hours and constantly replay the same old recorded ones.

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Miss Elliot RehabilitatedMar 7th, 2007 - 03:32:39

The jewish-christian merger of most European radio stations
in Germany is more than an average random sample : Sugababe
a clear zionistic jewish criminal gang is emitted!Kick-Back
for the German parliamenaries who lawfully enforced _jewish
_christian takeovers of all - I repeat - all radio _musical_
and tv-stations.A(German with our tax money bribed)official
party name has the Christian label C like CDU CSU as a seal.
We had that with exclusive jewish classical music emissions
already what resulted in a complete lost of young listeners.

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