Sorry, as a 25 year veteran if the industry - I must say diversity is not a factor here - never was. That's just all media BS to hype people in believing a certain agenda. This didn't just happen today.. this began during the CLINTON administration with the first wave of deregulation of radio broadcasting. At first, everyone was happy to buy up a competitor and have stations compliment each other. But, all the buyers over extended themselves and had to cut people to make their loan payments. The result is today - fewer people listening to the radio and watching broadcast TV. People in braodcasting are scratching their heads wondering "what happened?" They cut creativity, cut talented people only to replace them with automated stations and people in powerful positions who wouldn't have gotten a job sweeping floors 15 years ago. This was more about de-regulating TV. For the moron who posted that this actually RE-REGULATED radi- YOU re-read the story - this actually relaxed the rules further than they already were. Oh, yeah and Clear Channel "bashing" they deserve every insult thrown at them. They aren't the only slayers of modern radio, only the worst....
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Sorry, as a 25 year veteran if the industry - I must say diversity is not a factor here - never was. That's just all media BS to hype people in believing a certain agenda. This didn't just happen today.. this began during the CLINTON administration with the first wave of deregulation of radio broadcasting. At first, everyone was happy to buy up a competitor and have stations compliment each other. But, all the buyers over extended themselves and had to cut people to make their loan payments. The result is today - fewer people listening to the radio and watching broadcast TV. People in braodcasting are scratching their heads wondering "what happened?" They cut creativity, cut talented people only to replace them with automated stations and people in powerful positions who wouldn't have gotten a job sweeping floors 15 years ago. This was more about de-regulating TV. For the moron who posted that this actually RE-REGULATED radi- YOU re-read the story - this actually relaxed the rules further than they already were. Oh, yeah and Clear Channel "bashing" they deserve every insult thrown at them. They aren't the only slayers of modern radio, only the worst....