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WCGreen

(45,558 posts)
3. It's really hard to see how this would all change back.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:21 PM
Nov 2012

It's been this way for 2 decades now and the big companies are making tons of money and won't go down without a prolonged and very expensive fight.

BTW, I worked for a guy who owned a couple of radio stations in Fort Wayne. One of the executives was trying to raise money to buy a station in Toledo before the restrictions were lifted. No one who knew what was coming would invest.

Getting advertising would be next to impossible since the big guys on the block owned by Clear Channel, Sinclair and the other media conglomerates would simply cut their rates to starve the new guy out of the market. They deep enough pockets to do just that.

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