Re: More on CLear Channel song ban

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

At WWBX we haven't heard anything about that yet...


--- Dan Billings <dib9@gwi.net> wrote:
> This smells like a hoax to me.  The list of songs is
> too long and some of
> the songs that are included are just ridiculous.  It
> reads like a hit piece
> put together by someone with an ax to grind with
> Clear Channel (and there
> are lots of people like that).  These kind of things
> make the rounds on the
> Internet regularly.
> 
> There must be someone out there that works for Clear
> Channel that can
> confirm or deny the report?
> 
> I don't have any problem with any company using
> their editorial judgment
> concerning their play list.  I also think radio
> stations should give some
> thought to what they play at times like this.
> 
> At the Oldies station that I work for, I am told
> that a few songs were
> dropped from the play list and we were told last
> week to feel free to drop
> anything that we thought might upset people.  I
> dropped a few songs that I
> thought someone might take wrong, including
> "Revolution."  I also got a
> request for "Eve of Destruction" and told the caller
> that I would not play
> it.  I did play a request for "Ballad of the Green
> Berets."
> 
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
> 


=====
Cooper Fox
   WWBX- (All new, all hit, B97.1)

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