Fwd: Re: The Fate of WEVD

[Eliott Kahn <Elkahn...>]

>Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:58:38 -0400
>To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>From: Eliott Kahn <Elkahn (at) jtsa(dot)edu>
>Subject: Re: The Fate of WEVD
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>>The station which once contested its license suspension by the FCC noting 
>>that "WEVD must survive as the one place where Capitalism cannot lay its 
>>brutal paw..." and would not be reporting "...the results of polo matches" 
>>will now be the flagship of the nation's major sports network run by a huge 
>>conglomerate corporation.
>>How the irony  gods must be laughing.....
>>
>>Henry Sapoznik
>
>The double whammy is that somehow the ordinary citizen keeps getting his 
>broadcast frequencies hijacked. In a previous era, when the FCC threatened to 
>rescind licenses on the basis of lewd or controversial content, or the 
>Congress would bust up Rock n' Roll and independent labels with the Payola 
>scandal, the airwaves were regulated on behalf of large corporate interests 
>and a conservative moral mind set. Nowadays, our new FCC chairman Michael 
>Powell believes in no government regulation. That's fine, except most of the 
>broadcast media is falling into the hands of powerful corporate interests--who 
>will inevitably be cramming watered-down news and more insipid, banal 
>"entertainment" down our throats.
>
>Even more disturbing, just a few months ago the Congress effectively killed 
>recommendations for more low-level radio frequencies that were initiated by 
>the former FCC chairman, Michael[?] Kennard.  These measures were highly 
>supported by grass-roots religious organizations as well as musicians by 
>numerous petitions.
>
>I don't need to tell members of this list how many great musicians there are 
>out there who never get their work broadcast over the radio. Meanwhile, the 
>endless stream of vulgarity and dribble that passes for "music" keeps getting 
>played over the people's airwaves.
>
>I'll get off my soapbox now.
>
>Eliott Kahn
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