hiawatha
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Posted: April 30 2005, 21:09 |
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Agenda: You referred to the mythical 5 companies controlling everything having an agenda. You never said what it the agenda was. You said something like "we both know what it is". My only guess is that you assert that these companies have an agenda to crush Mike Oldfield. Such an agenda could backfire: when Clear Channel refused to play the Dixie Chicks, they only got more popular.
Clear Channel: "Who said CC owns 96% of anything? Read the stats yourself." I did. 1,200 stations out of 20,000 total. That's a pretty small share. They do have a huge chunk of ticket sales, but not radio stations. That is a problem, I agree, because unlike with radio stations, CC has huge clout here. The ticket sales monopoly by Clear Channel does not hurt Mike Oldfield, because (unfortunately), he does not tour here.
"Red": If you had used as your source a right-wing media rant site (Limbaugh/etc, or AIM), I would have been just as critical of using editorial opinions as a source for fact.
Concerning Mike: Why do you think that the scads of stations that are not Clear Channel and do not play Mike? I really do not know for sure, but strongly suspect that it is audience rejection. Like or or not, America loves country, rap, and hip-hop.
"Faced with Facts": I do recall a claim that 5 media companies controlled everything, which I refuted by counting companies and showing how media diversity and the # of companies involved has increased (not decreased). I've taken care to count the stations involved in the CC discussion. Do you have a market to show where Clear Channel dominates? I've checked several at random (and a few big ones like NYC) and this company dominates none.
Also, I mentioned not hearing Mike on radio really since the Exorcist theme. I probably could mention that i have heard/seen his music on television. Ironically, Oldfield was played by Viacom cable network stations. Viacom is one of those 5 companies that some falsely claim control everything. (now under the Paramount name).
Just about all of the radio stations I listen to (or can POSSIBLY listen to, with the exception of distant AM stations at night) are owned by small companies (and no CC anywhere near). I've never heard any of my local stations play Oldfield except in small snippets as "bumper music"...and this is over decades. This shows how useless it is to explain his absense from the airwaves by the machinations of a corporate cabal. I basically got hooked on Oldfield from when "Tubular Bells" came out, and I only found out the new ones by checking record stores frequently. Radio was never any help to me.
As for opinion, the numbers showing CC's small share and the many companies other than the "big 5" are not matters of opinion.
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"In the land of the Dacotahs,
Where the Falls of Minnehaha
Flash and gleam among the oak-trees,
Laugh and leap into the valley."
- Song of Hiawatha
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