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Originally posted by breathesgelatin
Now, this isn't a very well-investigated statement on my part, but everything I've read and heard about Clear Channel entertainment leads me to think it's an evil, evil, evil, censoring place.
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Okay okay okay...I gotta butt my nose in here at this point. I will admit that I work for Clear Channel---they bought out the Jacor Station I worked for. I actually enjoy it. It is not Clear Channel that is censoring us DJ's and what we hear on the radio. It is the FCC!!! We recently had to take this training manual that tells us what kinds of things we can talk about on the radio. The hours between 8am and 10pm we have to watch what we say b/c there are little ears around. After that it's a come and go as you please kind of thing, with the exception of the string of curse words you hear on parental advisory cd's.
When something happens and some random dj makes some comment, curses, plays those songs, or talks about explicit sexual acts and what happens kind of thing, then the FCC fines Clear Channel and that station it was heard on. The dj then gets a HUGE reprimand from Clear Channel and if it happens again...buh bye Mr. DJ.
Granted Clear Channel could treat it's employees better...the health insurance sucks my ass! But, I enjoy working in radio and playing whatever I want with a few exceptions. When those assholes call about me playing the damn Dixie Chicks *I work at a country and a pop station--2* I tell them to go fly a kite! I do have to be nice on the phone or they won't listen to me!
So please people...don't make it seem like it's just Clear Channel...it isn't! It is too bad that they don't donate near as much money to Kerry's campaign as to Bush's.....but then again. That's a political arguement I'm not feeling up to getting into!
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