Wednesday, December 13, 2006
FMC Releases Study, Claims Consolidation Has Led To Fewer Programming Choices, Harmed Public
FMC Releases Study On Local Radio And Diversity
December 13, 2006, via
www.fmqb.comThe Future of Music Coalition (FMC) has released its extensive report on radio station ownership consolidation. Entitled "False Premises, False Promises: A Quantitative History of Ownership Consolidation in the Radio Industry," the study claims that consolidation has led to fewer programming choices for listeners, as well as harming the listening public and music & radio industry employees.
The FMC study found that the top four station ownership groups have almost half of all radio listeners and that local ownership has declined by almost one-third from 1975 to 2005. Also, just 15 formats make up three-fourths of all commercial programming and formats with different names can overlap up to 80 percent in terms of the songs played on them...read more:
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