Radio Consolidation (Subscribe)
Links
"Radio's Big Bully"
http://www.salon.com/ent/clear_channel/
Salon online magazine series of investigative reports on Clear Channel, one of largest radio station owners.
ARD Library
http://www.radiodiversity.com/library.html
Archives of articles from various sources about radio consolidation from Americans for Radio Diversity.
Consolidation and Diversity
http://www.radiodiversity.com/nothingonradio.html
Consumer advocates, media-corporation group heads clash over consolidation's effect on programming diversity. (From Radio and Records industry publication. July 1998)
Corporate Media Portal
Links and articles about corporate media and low-power broadcasting alternatives.
Hello, I'm your DJ
http://www.radiodiversity.com/amfmdjsystem.html
How a national media conglomerate makes 'local' radio. By Dale Smith for the Austin American-Statesman
Radio Waves
http://www.reason.com/news/show/31042.html
Article about the movement to legalize low-power grass roots radio, and broadcast corporations' effort to stop it. Author says despite broadcasters' efforts, new competitors for listeners will emerge. By Jesse Walker from Reason Magazine.
Sound and Fury
http://www.radiodiversity.com/soundandfury1.html
An in-depth history and commentary criticval of the effects of deregulation and corporation control of radio. Includes proposals for reform. By Dan Kennedy, media columnist for Boston Phoenix.
