Comments on: New Book Makes The Case Against Media Consolidation http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/12/new-book-makes-the-case-against-media-consolidation/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:17:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JazzJockSTL http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2006/12/new-book-makes-the-case-against-media-consolidation/comment-page-1/#comment-964 JazzJockSTL Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:36:56 +0000 http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/?p=63#comment-964 Wall Street should get out of the radio business altogether, and give the airwaves back to the people who are passionate about radio. We should also get rid of voicetracking, which deceives the listener into thinking the program is done live, when it is actually pre-recorded hundreds or thousands of miles away. Another thing we need to get rid of, not only in radio, but also in all the media, is the policy of patronage and cronyism ("It's not WHAT you know, it's WHO you know") as hiring policy; it allows unqualified talent an unfair advantage over talent who have busted their tails at smaller commercial, public or Christian radio stations for 10, 15, 20 years or more. Voicetracking and patronage have hurt more people than it will ever help. Both of these need to be banned if radio is to have a future. Getting rid of "HD Radio" is another thing that also needs to be done. It is spectrally inefficient; on an analog receiver, it wastes up to 100 kHz of AM spectrum space and 600 kHz of FM spectrum space. DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale), being tested in Europe and on selected shortwave radio stations, wastes 40 kHz of valuable spectrum space. We need to find separate spectrum for terrestrial digital audio broadcasting, ban digital audio broadcasting on AM, FM and shortwave in the United States, and restore the C-QUAM standard for stereophonic broadcasting on AM. We also need a permanent ban on corporate ownership of Christian radio and restrictions of religious programming on secular radio. Corporate ownership of Christian radio is contrary to the Bible's teaching that loving money is the root of all evil. Christian radio should only be owned by churches, not-for-profit Christian organizations, and committed Christian business men and women. The same should also be applied for radio stations oriented to all other religions. <a href="http://ma.gnolia.com/people/icethin">JazzJockSTL</a> Wall Street should get out of the radio business altogether, and give the airwaves back to the people who are passionate about radio. We should also get rid of voicetracking, which deceives the listener into thinking the program is done live, when it is actually pre-recorded hundreds or thousands of miles away. Another thing we need to get rid of, not only in radio, but also in all the media, is the policy of patronage and cronyism (“It’s not WHAT you know, it’s WHO you know”) as hiring policy; it allows unqualified talent an unfair advantage over talent who have busted their tails at smaller commercial, public or Christian radio stations for 10, 15, 20 years or more. Voicetracking and patronage have hurt more people than it will ever help. Both of these need to be banned if radio is to have a future.

Getting rid of “HD Radio” is another thing that also needs to be done. It is spectrally inefficient; on an analog receiver, it wastes up to 100 kHz of AM spectrum space and 600 kHz of FM spectrum space. DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale), being tested in Europe and on selected shortwave radio stations, wastes 40 kHz of valuable spectrum space. We need to find separate spectrum for terrestrial digital audio broadcasting, ban digital audio broadcasting on AM, FM and shortwave in the United States, and restore the C-QUAM standard for stereophonic broadcasting on AM.

We also need a permanent ban on corporate ownership of Christian radio and restrictions of religious programming on secular radio. Corporate ownership of Christian radio is contrary to the Bible’s teaching that loving money is the root of all evil. Christian radio should only be owned by churches, not-for-profit Christian organizations, and committed Christian business men and women. The same should also be applied for radio stations oriented to all other religions.
JazzJockSTL

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