Anyone still listen to radio?

[Griff]

I still do. I listen to music, news, and baseball. Thing is, this clearchannel/iheart radio near monopoly kinda bugs me.

http://www.iheart.com/find/country/U...inghamton-154/

I think I count 8 local broadcast stations all controlled by the same organization. The one that stings is KGB, it was built in the late 80's by local guys as an independent station to answer the (different Conn. based group of) hacks who had turned WAAL into a classic rock station. After KGB was bought out by clearchannel, it ran for a few years very much as it had run before. Now we are beginning to see the corp assert its control. Packaged programming with Rover's misogyny in the morning and canned nights leaves very little local feel. Does it matter? My sense is that it does. During the run up to the Iraq disaster I was listening to a lot of FOX sports programming which spent a remarkable amount of time pimping the war. It mattered then, it matters now.