Hi, I'm the program director at WLOL

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... and if you're between 30 and 40 and haven't been listening to WLOL for the past six months, I'd like you to check it out now!

― Josh, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Part of a commercial I just heard, NOT on WLOL.

Making it obvious that all the stations in a market are owned by the same motherfucking capitalist pigdogs, classic or dud?

― Josh, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also Cl ear Channel wants to invade British Radio

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and if you're between 30 and 40 and haven't been listening to WLOL for the past six months, I'd like you to check it out now!

This is guaranteed to put me off: it is, I suspect, tantamount to an assurance that you will hear nothing too modern or disturbing. I'm 43, and I feel as if that station is likely to be too old for me.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

lol

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this ad ran on a top 40 station!

― Josh, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, WLOL is a Clear Channel company. Says it right there on their website, along with a picture of Kansas, who are apparently NOT QUITE dust in the wind -- or at least not enough for my discriminating tastes.

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Martina, those fuckers want to rule the world, they want to invade brasilian radio too! I dont have a link though cos i saw it on the newspaper but it is deeply scary. Are they aiming for even more places?

― Chupa-Cabras, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HA! i said Martina instead of Martian, could be Winbledom invadin even if i didnt watched any game and dont care about tennis. The vibe must be passing throughout everybody

― Chupa-Cabras, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chupa-Cabras they are an invading bacteria and nothing short of a scorched-earth policy will stop them. Not to get all Jim Ladd or anything but you used to be able to perceive differences in U.S. radio as you drove from place to place. CC ended all that. Here's hoping that somebody in Brazil finds away to drive them out, unless you wanna hear that "Couldn't make it as a blind man" song or however it goes ad infinitum

― John Darnielle, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh. I was listening to KDWB recently for an hour or so (same market as Josh -- Twin Cities, MN) and they had a spot for one of the other stations -- I think the "Lite FM" one -- followed by the DJ telling the listeners to "have a Clear Channel day". OH FOR FUN.

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha yes a sly attempt to make it seem as if, if you don't like what's on the station, you're just listening to the wrong property of theirs - instead of just having made a mistake by turning on the radio in the first place

― Josh, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe the next Taking Sides should be, "Clear Channel v. Rupert Murdoch."

O, to have an FCC that actually enforced antitrust laws!

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

is there some strange contingent of people that thinks antitrust laws are a good thing but actually offers reasons why they shouldn't be enforced in cases like this? or is this sort of thing more a matter of corporate corruption and public neglect?

― Josh, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but they are not violating any anti-trust laws, they are allowed to own up to 8 stations in markets with 45 outlets or more after passage of the 1996 telecommunications act, and where is the consumer harm? some vague consideration of lack of diversity? pretty thin.

they are going after them for monopolizing the public performance market but i think using clear channel as an excuse for rising ticket prices gives a large number of people(bands included) easy cover.

― keith, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

surely you realize that just because an act was passed that lets them do that doesn't mean it couldn't be antitrust behavior.

― Josh, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Isabel's local station changed its music policy to become less 'urban' lately and now has an ad which goes "On Eagle FM you won't hear anything like THIS [bit of 'Get UR Freak On']" - wow yeah good pick!

― Tom, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha so by 'less 'urban'' you mean 'not 'urban' at all any more blast it'

― Josh, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

took a trip to far northern new jersey, friend's house in the tiny town of sussex, practically pennsylvania, kicking the weeds on the shoulder of the single road winds through that burg, idly wandering back from an exploration of the small-plane landing strip across from her house, flies buzzing, sun beating down, a shimmer of heat rising from the asphalt, and quickly get off the shoulder as i hear the rush of an oncoming car. it passes in a flash and as it disappears behind a tree-lined curve i hear the doppler-shift frequency-drop on Get Ur Freak On - bip bana nana now - biiip banaa nanaa nowwwwww - it's TOO LATE, Eagle FM! Get Ur Freak On has hit the sticks!

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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