Wednesday, September 21, 2005
OWNERSHIP: Is there a link between big-media radio ownership and indecency?
Free Press : The link between Big Media and indecency
According to Jonathan Rintels, of the Center for Creative Voices in Media:
"The data also show a repeated pattern: Following the elimination of ownership limits in 1996, a local station would be sold to a large station-ownership group, which then eliminated local content and replaced it with an edgy/raunchy show that it produced in another market, causing the station to receive an FCC indecency fine for the first time in its history."
According to Jonathan Rintels, of the Center for Creative Voices in Media:
"The data also show a repeated pattern: Following the elimination of ownership limits in 1996, a local station would be sold to a large station-ownership group, which then eliminated local content and replaced it with an edgy/raunchy show that it produced in another market, causing the station to receive an FCC indecency fine for the first time in its history."
