[CMA] (Fwd) Radio Free Clear Channel ?

Tue May 31 08:49:48 BST 2005

could you see this happening here?  Radio Free London 'crashing' into 
HeartFM but actually run by Chrysalis...  just trying to figure this -
 'corporate marketing does anti-corporate'..? wont be the first 
time...

[for those of you not up to speed on the US radio ecology - keep up 
at the back - Clear Channel are the corporate monster of US radio 
that has conglomerated its way through local stations there, blanding 
out and syndicating as they go - and set up by two ultra-Bush-ites - 
the ones that funded pro-war rallies and banned the Dixie Chicks for 
being anti war...  So when you despair of commercial radio here, 
think yourselves lucky.  Thus all the stranger that they are doing 
this stuff....]

bests

Phil

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Radio Free CC

http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/05/radio_free_clea.html

"It's official: even Clear Channel is sick of Clear Channel. The
company has set up a fake pirate radio station in Akron, Ohio, which
it's using to hurl insults at other Clear Channel stations...."

Update: The RadioFreeOhio website is now just radio silence; nothing
but a launch date and a promise of "revolution." But we've posted 
some
text from the site here.
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/radio-clear-channel.html

Update 5/30/05: Clear Channel acknowledges stunt. See this followup
post. http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/05/ny_times_on_cle.html

See also

 From today's New York Times...

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Clear Channel in a Stealth Promotional Campaign
By ROBERT LEVINE
Published: May 30, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/business/media/30clear.html?

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
http://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 http://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."

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