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Radio/TV is a BUSINESS. It exists SOLELY as a means for generating revenue, a return on investment, for its stations' owners. This fact is neither good nor bad, it just IS. People tune in to what they want to hear, the radio/TV station owner is then able to charge high rates for advertisements that advertisers pay to put on his station...If they DON'T tune in, the station owner can either 1) Go out of business, or 2) change his programming to something people WANT to hear. I decry the number of country and/or gospel stations around here, but that is what the majority of people around here apparently WANT to listen to, & radio station owners are acting accordly to the audiences' wishes, & hopefully make a buck in the process. I suppose I should call or write the FCC, & complain that the stations around here are NOT servicing MY needs as an myopic, 52-yr-old white male who wants to listen to Top-40 hits from the '60s & '70s...(grin)
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