🚀 go-pugleaf

Steve Henderson wrote:

> "Tom Hendricks" <112374.474@compuserve.com> wrote in message
> news:3BB2183A.E39175D2@compuserve.com...
> LPFM gutted -itself- because there wasn't a large enough listener area for
> the money spent to place ads on it.

All LPFM had to be non commercial.

>
>
> Also, have you the slightest notion just WTF "pirate" radio even is?  And,
> more to the point, why it is a -good- idea that they get raided?
>
> > It is an illegal monopoly. And that monopoly loves it when critics leave
> it alone
>
> You also have not the slightest idea WTF an "illegal monopoly" is or you
> wouldn't keep misusing the term.

Call it whatever you want. But they are so interbreeded that you can barely
separate them.

>
>
> > Don't you think that it is strange that no local band anywhere in the US
> is played
> > on mainstream radio?
> > None zero, zip. Does that mean that every local musician in the US is less
> talented
> > than N Sync, or does it tell you there is more than popularity at stake.
>
> Bullshit.  -EVERY- band that is -from- America is local to -someone-,
> somewhere.

You're side stepping the point

>

>

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>
> > As to popularity I've offered cash on my website if you can find a hit
> from 1981 -
> > now. That fits some simple 'good song' requirements. There hasn't been one
> by any
> > star  - period.
>
> Define "good song" requirements.

3 requirements. It be a big hit for the person that did it. It be good enough
that 5 people covered it (a good song0 and it had enough scope and range to
cover 3 formats. There is a prize for finding any song between 1981`- Now. I
began with 70-now and there have been only 2 winners. For details

http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com
Here's a quote about  radio from the radio reporter at the conservative and
business geared
Dallas Morning news.
"In the 6 years I've been covering radio, the prevailing sentiment among people

who've taken the time to call or write is that 'radio sucks."  Al Brumley

This protest is about

1. the end of payola (which I think is illegal and should stop)
see http://www.salon.com and search payola for 6+ articles on the new payola
2. Radio following the license agreements that they freely signed with
the FCC to get their licenses, which included
local support. If not they should loose their licenses.
3. The refusal of local musicians to keep supporting radio that refuses
to support them. Why should they.

Tom Hendricks, musea
http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com
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It is time to stand up for local musicians and end the real boycott
the radio boycott of local music.