Re: WBUR takes on Clear Channel

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>
To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:43 PM
Subject: RE: WBUR takes on Clear Channel


> That's a cheap shot Paul and you know it.   NPR doesn't own a single
> station, they're all voluntary affiliates.   For that matter, NPR does not
> require member stations to exclusively carry NPR programming (as opposed
> to, say, PRI) as is common in the commercial world.

To the listener that makes no difference.  I know there is a difference
between a network affiliate and complete ownership but when a station turns
most of it's programming day over to a network, the effect is practically
the same.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine