Comments on: The Daily Square – You’re So Vain Edition

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:44:37 +0000

As long as anyone keeps referring to me as young, my cynicism will remain at least partly at bay. Thank you, Booksquare.

By: Booksquare

Booksquare — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:39:43 +0000

Joan, I certainly hope this teaches you a lesson about rampant cynicism. It didn’t help me in the least, but I am beyond redemption. You probably have a chance, being young and all.

Susan — I haven’t checked lately, but I believe Clear Channel owns everything. It makes it easier to keep track of what you have when you have it all.

By: SusanGable

SusanGable — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:07:26 +0000

Oh, I was talking local TV stations. Although, Clear Channel owns some of those, too, I think. (s)

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:21:23 +0000

Off topic from the other posts – I was all set to roll my eyes about that author in the Secret Santa item (and where I get the nerve to judge someone else’s self-obsession is beyond me) and then he threw me off by what he ultimately did with his self-obsession! Curses.

By: kirkb

kirkb — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:17:51 +0000

Unfortunately most local radio stations are owned by Clear Channel or other conglomerates. There are very few true “local” radio stations left. The independents are the ones who will be the run out of business by the FCC. And once they are, you can guess who’ll buy up their broadcast license.

By: SusanGable

SusanGable — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:34:19 +0000

Oh, and I’m with you on the Da Vinci Code thing. Give the thing a rest, would ya? I mean, come on, folks. It’s made a gazillion dollars, but that doesn’t mean someone else should crawl out of the woodwork daily to try to get a piece of that over-sized pie.

By: SusanGable

SusanGable — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:32:53 +0000

Another thing the FCC considered and wouldn’t care about if they HAD considered it, but fines that big could end up putting your local station right out of business. They aren’t making huge profits, and too many $300K+ fines, well…that could just drive them right out of business. Which actually might make some people happy as it would further consolidate things and make control easier.

(TV stations used to be PAID by the networks to run programming, and they must now PAY for the same programming instead. This has dramatically changed things in tv-station-land.)