higgsboson comments on Local radio be like.

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

local rock stations

yeah, Im not convinced that is still a thing. The vast majority of terrestrial radio stations are owned by large corporations. "Local" is a big stretch there.

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[–] AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

You have the 1996 Communications Act to thank for that; it gave a free pass for Clear Channel (Paramount) to buy up every local radio station in America and effectively dictate culture to the US and the wider hegemony.

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[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 11 points 6 months ago

My area is down to one independent commercial station. Everything else on the FM band is owned by iHeartMedia.

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 6 points 6 months ago

I Heart Radio seems to own every station in my area but one. Its all ads with the same corpo approved top 100 {station theme here} slop playlist on loop.

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