Radio Consolidation

• News: Media  (2,172)
• Society: Issues: Business: Allegedly Unethical Firms: Clear Channel Communications  (10)

ARD Library - Archives of articles from various sources about radio consolidation from Americans for Radio Diversity.

Consolidation and Diversity - 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 - How a national media conglomerate makes 'local' radio. By Dale Smith for the Austin American-Statesman

Radio Waves - 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.

"Radio's Big Bully" - Salon online magazine series of investigative reports on Clear Channel, one of largest radio station owners.

Sound and Fury - 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.