Stern & C.C.

[Kevin Vahey]

If there wasn't another agenda here, CC could simply instruct each 
station to put Stern on a 7 second delay





On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:21am, Sven Franklyn Weil wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>>  What I *really* don't understand is why the CBS hourly news the other
>>  night made it sound as if CCU had `fired' Stern (which of course it
>
>
> Maybe it's a case of clueless corporate drones.  They don't take the 
> time
> to even find out what other businesses their own employer is involved 
> in.
>
> The proper way to announce this would be: "Radio station owner Clear
> Channel suspended carriage of the Howard Stern show over its radio
> stations."  Somewhere in the story, mention that Stern is a product of
> Viacom, parent company of CBS and W Bla Bla Bla.
>
> How come the reporters at Bloomberg can do this when they mention
> something that tangentially involves their employer (so and so is a
> partner in Bloomberg LP, parent company of WBBR - or something to that
> effect).
>
> --
> Sven Weil
> New York City