ClearChannel and Howard Stern (was: WGIR)

[Eli Polonsky]

On 6/18/04 1:13 PM, "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:

> Umm, not baseless at all.  In late May of last year, I commented on this
> very fact-- and it is a fact-- on ABC's Nightline.  The ban started with
> the Cumulus chain.  CC ordered that anti-war songs be banned.  Both plans
> equally scary, both were carried out for a while.

I'm certainly not one to normally defend Clear Channel, however
during the period following 9/11 when the alleged CC "ban" on
certain anti-war (or otherwise possibly controversial) songs was
supposedly on, I heard CC stations in Providence (WWBB and WHJY)
continue to often play a number of songs that were on the alleged
"ban" list, simply because they're big hits that are normally in
their rotation. (John Lennon's "Imagine", for example).

The story I heard was that there was a circulated list of songs
"suggested" to avoid, but that it wasn't an ordered mandate, and
that most of their stations just continued with business as usual.

I don't listen to CC's Boston stations (except Little Walter on
WXKS-AM), so I don't know what they were doing then.

Eli Polonsky