Dixie Chicks Pay Back Time for Clear Channel Radio Station Bans; Let's DU!

O.K. DUers, Let's request that Clear Channel Radio Stations cease the ban on Dixie Chick's Music, or we ban their stations and their products! Lubbock, Texas is one of the greatest offenders because it is the home town of Natalie, and all but one radio station is still banning their music. It is also responsible for one of their recent songs, "Lubbock or Leave it." I'll post the lyrics and a link to listen to this song in another post. A few of the Lubbock radio stations are listed at the bottom of these Clear Channel links. The first Clear Channel link is for Country Western Music by state. I couldn't search individual states for CW Music, but the states are listed alphabetically. Hit 'more' at the listing, and that should take you to a site where you can send feedback, either by e-mail or comments. To find stations by state, go to the second link. The 3rd and 4th links are the Texas and Florida listings for all of their radio stations, including CW.

County Stations for all States: (201 Radio Stations, listed alphabetically by state)
http://www.clearchannel.com/Radio/StationSearch.aspx?RadioSearch=texas%20Country

Clear Channel Station Search by State

http://www.clearchannel.com/Radio/

Texas: (96 Radio Stations)

http://www.clearchannel.com/Radio/StationSearch.aspx?RadioSearch=texas

(81 Radio Staions)

http://www.clearchannel.com/Radio/StationSearch.aspx?RadioSearch=florida

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Lubbock, Texas specifically:

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Classic Country 105.7
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http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=4935097
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The song "Lubbock or Leave it" is fast paced and upbeat. Some listeners may not like what the lyrics say, while others won't get the chance to even hear it. Most Lubbock country stations are still not playing their music.

Country Radio station 99.5 The Bear is the only station playing the song in Lubbock. Radio personalities, Jane Prince-Jones and Rick Gilbert say for the most part, people want to hear it so they are playing it. "We don't like to sensor things around here and there has been a lot of publicity with this song. .....

KLLL and 105.7, The Rebel say they will not be playing the Dixie Chicks. They say it's simply because their listeners do not want to hear it.

"Lubbock Or Leave It"

Dust bowl, Bible belt
Got more churches than trees
Raise me, praise me, couldn't save me
Couldn't keep me on my knees
Oh, boy, rave on down loop 289
That'll be the day you see me back
In this fool's paradise

Temptation's strong
(Salvation's gone)
I'm on my way
To hell's half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now

Throwing stones from the top of your rock
Thinking no one can see
The secrets you hide behind
Your southern hospitality
On the strip the kids get lit
So they can have a real good time
Come Sunday they can just take their pick
From the crucifix skyline

Temptation's strong
(Salvation's gone)
I'm on my way
To hell's half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now
Get to heaven now

International airport
A quarter after nine
Paris Texas, Athens Georgia's
Not what I had in mind
As I'm getting out I laugh to myself
Cause this is the only place
Where as you're getting on the plane
You see Buddy Holly's face

I hear they hate me now
Just like they hated you
Maybe when I'm dead and gone
I'm gonna get a statue too

Temptation's strong
(Salvation's gone)
I'm on my way
To hell's half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now
Get to heaven now
How will I ever

Get to heaven now

Listen to the song here: http://www.kqbr.com/main.html

Edited to add lyrics and link to song; hope the link still works!

I think they just own some of the stations Air America is on.

:shrug:

http://www.reason.com/links/links090704.shtml

The Profit Motive
Clear Channel discovers the liberal demographic
Jesse Walker



Today at noon, WCOL-AM in Columbus, Ohio, becomes the latest station to join the Air America radio network. It is also the latest station owned by the behemoth Clear Channel chain to embrace the "progressive talk" format. The company, which owns more than 1,200 stations, is now beaming Air America's liberal lineup over eight of them—nine if you count a Florida outlet that's only running the Randi Rhodes show, and 10 if you count XM satellite radio, which includes Clear Channel among its investors. That might not sound like much, but it's over a third of Air America's affiliates.

It's an alliance that flies in the face of the conventional wisdom about Clear Channel: that as a Texas corporation that has benefited tremendously from the Republicans' regulatory policies—and is owned by a Lowry Mays, a friend and financier of President Bush—it would use its market power to boost the GOP's agenda. Turns out that profits trump politics after all.

The company's first sally leftward came in March, when KPOJ-AM, in Portland, Oregon, became the first Clear Channel outfit to embrace Air America. Portland is a famously left-leaning town, and the experiment was a success: Among listeners aged 25 to 64, the station's ratings jumped from number 26 to number 3. Managers of other outlets around the country noticed this success, and decided to imitate it: Soon such lefty strongholds as Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Madison, Wisconsin, were hearing Al Franken and company on Clear Channel-owned affiliates too. Meanwhile, outside the Air America orbit, Clear Channel gave Jesse Jackson a weekly syndicated show called Keep Hope Alive, currently airing on about a dozen stations around the country.

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They happen to lease airtime on WLIB in NYC. What Air America Radio does is offer syndicated programming to station owners, like Clear Channel.

As such, although you can hear Air America programming on line and on XM 24/7, local station owners can pick and choose what they air.

Example: WPEK, which is owned by Clear Channel, doesn't air Jerry Springer in the 9-12am slot, it airs Stephanie Miller instead, not of Air America. WCHL - not owned by Clear Channel - airs even less of Air America programs, airing Al Franken & The Majority Report, and only one hour of Mike Malloy on Friday nights at 11pm. It seems that they might drop into the national feed overnights and at weekends but a lot of their programming is local.

Take another example: Premiere Radio Networks (and before anyone states, yes it's part of Clear Channel) syndicates programming. Yes, some of Clear Channel stations carry Premiere's programs. However there are plenty that do not - in my local area WSJS (a CBS station) carries Rush Limbaugh, as does WBT (owned by Lincoln Financial) and WPTF (Curtis Media).

It's just that although Air America Radio is really a syndicator of programming, it has enough programming so that if a station wanted to go 100% Air America all the time, they could. In fact a station owner in Atlanta (not Cheap Channel) does just that, and Air America does that itself by leasing airtime on WLIB. However in different markets it just doesn't work. It is what works to pay the bills and make money whilst serving the community in a half-decent way.

Mark.

They handed W his first "self made" million. They come in, buy up ALL the radio in a market then combine markets and fire ALL the live DJs, allowing only a few engineers to run multiple facilities with no live talent. There's no such thing as "requests" now: it's all fake. What Clear-Channel does was illegal and restricted before Ray-gun fucked up the FCC. Clear-Channel = Busco in the purest sense. You think we can make them play these songs? http://www.peace-not-war.org/Jukebox/index.html

here's what I'm hearing now:


"The Day The World Said Stop The War"
ROBB JOHNSON

i keep seeing us everywhere
as far as the eye can see
it's like this river overflowing
we got Muslims, we got Christians
we got pagans, we got Jews
we got atheists, anarchists, socialists
we even got a liberal or too
on the day we said: stop the war!
we got t-shirts, we got keffiyehs
hijabs and rainbow scarves
we got placards that say "we're angry"
we got placards that make you laugh
we got whistles, badges, banners
ten thousand djembes and a Salsa band
we got pensioners, we got pushchairs
arm in arm and hand in hand
on the day we all said: stop the war!
we got the actress and the bishop
we got tankies, we got Trots
some got extra sandwiches
in case their mates forgot
we got respectable housewives from suburbia
who've never done this sort of thing before
with the international sex workers of the world united
and the boy and the girl next door
on the day we all said: stop the war!
there's that what's her name from off of the telly
and that bloke i met called Steve
but we are more than just 2 million
we are Ramallah and Tel Aviv
we are New York, Paris, Berlin, Moscow
Cape Town, Cairo, Bangkok to Glasgow
we are a river overflowing...
on the day we all said: stop the war!
i keep seeing us everywhere

useless? That Clear Channel won't listen to individual requests? I think not, if enough participate. Look how much harm individuals did to the Dixie Chicks. Do they own Air America or not? The lyrics "The Day The World Said Stop The War" are awesome.

sorry, I don't know if they own Air-America. I'm old-school.

Nothing useless here. It's online people like you who made the DIXIE CHICKS and Pink top sellers. Keep putting the word out and do all you can. All I'm saying is know what you're up against. I worked in radio a long time, until ClearChannel grabbed power. Then, I said to hell with this new media machine, after I toured their facilities; 20 stations in one building, all own by a few ultra-rich families and that's just Mobile.

Here's why the rich fools wasted ALL that money buying up outdated radio:
http://www.peace-not-war.org/Jukebox/index.html
check it out.

posted a separate thread here in GD or in the Lounge on this? I wonder how many DUers know of its existence?

This is the most prolific period of protest song-writing in history, and home-studio technology makes it possible for the world to hear these radical songs. The Peace Not War Music Project has received over 500 anti-war songs from different kinds of musicians, and they will all be going online.

about my sweet dog who has gone blind, and I received so much good advice and sympathy, I tear up remembering some of the comments! But if not there, why not start a thread here in GD? More DUers probably need to know about it, don't you think?

the more publicity those type sites get the better. I don't own it or deal with the site in any way but I know the more people who see/ hear it the better for the musicians/ artists. You'll love the site, Feel free to help any way you can. You post it in a few days and I'll kick and vote it up, if I'm online.

As others have indicated, they do own many stations that CARRY Air America as part of their programming, a small part.

Clear Channel has no local DJs to listen to individual requests on the air. They use remote, part-time voice talent and make it SEEM local. They save a bundle on salaries and benefits, like any Repuke employer would.

We could bombard them them with phone calls and e-mails, and it wouldn't move them one bit. They are the 800-lb. gorilla of broadcasting, concert management and billboards, and they couldn't care less what any of us think.

to the FCC and to terrestrial radio and get sattelite.

-No censorship

-Commercial free music, low commercial volume for talk

-hundreds of channels


Fuck the FCC

bye bye bushco radio you neocon idiots just bought a big rotten bunch of lemons.

the pocketbook... kick it hard, right in the money bag and keep kicking.

on edit: if you want to REALLY mess with ClearChannel, call local sponsors in your area and tell them it's a shame you can't shop in their nice store because they finance reducing local jobs and the decay of American free speech. But make sure the station you're hearing is ClearChannel. Just call and ask them about media sales employment. Unlike the old days, there's no degree required to sell ClearChannel. They'll hire a used car salesman with no experience, in a flash. If you call sponsors, tell um you're conservative on the Bill of Rights and can't support businesses that are un-American. hehehe

not only do they own damn near every radio station in America they also own nearly all the concert venues, not to mention billboards, artist management agencies, ticket brokers and other things... They are trying to take over the music industry. There was a big backlash the last couple years because they had a monopoly on concert venues. This year a company called Live Nation has taken over many of what we call "sheds", amphitheaters and outdoor summer concert venues. A quick check on Live Nation shows their parent company to be... you guessed it Clear Channel. It's going to be difficult, in the extreme, to clamp down on them without boycotting music altogether. Luckily things will be changing soon. Artists are starting to produce their own music and make it available online for download, cutting out all the middle men. You can also cut out venue taxes, and fees by buying concert tickets through your favorite artists fan clubs. The internet will change the music industry, it's just going to take time.