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Re: WJIB-740-CHWO
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Dan Billings wrote:
> The people? The way I see it is that people, represented by the ratings,
> decide what gets on the air in this country.
No, it's the owners of broadcasting facilities who decide such things.
Listeners have *no* input. As for ratings, many of them contain so much
noise as to be essentially meaningless.
The consolidation of the industry has brought with it a homogenization of
programming content. As far as I can see this wasn't driven by ratings but
by the desires of group owners to centralize the management of many
aspects of their local businesses.
> The idea of a government agency deciding what someone should broadcast is
> downright scary to me.
To me it's no different from Mel Karmazin deciding what someone should
broadcast.
Rob Landry
umar@nerodia.wcrb.com