Word: channelized
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...Clear Channel is just one company, and even though we feel that its decisions are often frustratingly irresponsible—or just asinine, as in Stern’s case—it has the right to air what it wants. The real problem is that Clear Channel dominates the American radio market—so the intolerant conservatives running the San Antonio, Texas-based company get to inflict their views on the rest of the country. Since 1996, when Congress relaxed the rules that govern media ownership, Clear Channel has gone from 30 radio stations to more than...
That means when Clear Channel refuses to run a Democratic Party ad, they can prevent as much as half of a major city from ever hearing it. To make matters worse, the FCC under Chairman Michael Powell, who used to help corporations evade anti-trust laws for a living, has repeatedly attempted to relax the already weak regulations that govern media conglomerates. This would be disturbing even if Clear Channel weren’t so politically assertive...
...cadre of Kerry's longtime Boston operatives. They had been shut out by her predecessor, Jim Jordan, who had made no secret of the fact that he regarded most of them as small-time hacks. They held Jordan in equal regard and let Kerry know at every back-channel opportunity. Jordan had also butted heads with media consultant Bob Shrum, who has rarely been on the losing side of an internal battle...
...biggest now-you-tell-us moments of the year, Clear Channel Communications, the largest U.S. radio chain, last week deemed disc jockey HOWARD STERN "vulgar, offensive and insulting" and dropped his syndicated show from the six stations that aired it. (It can still be heard on dozens of stations on the Infinity network.) Coincidentally, Clear Channel CEO John Hogan testified the next day before a congressional committee on media indecency. As for Stern, his show will be suspended until Clear Channel is assured that he will meet decency standards. (Should be real soon.) Even conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh...
...most people do not end up in their dream jobs; that is, arguably, precisely why millions of people spend long evenings escaping into TV. So one group of workplace series specializes in showing that dream jobs are not always so dreamy. ABC Family Channel's Switched Up! (Sundays, 7 p.m. E.T.)--in which two people trade jobs each week--portrays the kind of working world we would live in if we all got the jobs we wanted when we were 7: a cheerleader swaps places with a cowgirl, a fire fighter with a DJ. But the episodes generally...