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p2pnet.net News:- Denver’s Nobody In Particular Presents has settled a lawsuit it lodged against Clear Channel claiming the latter’s radio stations play artists promoted by its concert promotion division and "limit or exclude air time for artists not promoted by Clear Channel."
The suit also alleged Clear Channel’s monopoly drove up the cost of Denver-area concert tickets and cut consumers’ access to performers, says the Denver Business Journal. here.
Clear Channel "admitted no wrongdoing".
But of course.
In April a US District Court judge granted a jury trial to NIPP, which accused Clear Channel of monopolistic and predatory practices.
"Judge Edward W. Nottingham’s 125-page ruling … says the evidence suggests Clear Channel illegally reduced radio airplay for artists who booked concert tours with competing promoters," says Rolling Stone here, going on:
"[…] evidence in court documents suggests that Clear Channel - which owns more than 1,200 radio stations - aimed to severely damage its Denver competitors and the artists who worked with them. The most dramatic details are found in e-mails from Michael O’Connor, director of programming for Clear Channel’s five FM stations in Denver.
"When the 2001 Styx/Bad Company tour selected House of Blues as its promoter, O’Connor instructed his radio underlings to ‘crush’ HOB and avoid mentioning the concert on its classic-rock stations."
The terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed, says the Journal.
June 4th, 2004 at 7:50 pm
You mean Clear Channel is after profits even at the risk of harming or impacting its own customers? GASP *Boogles the mind*
RIAA anyone?
MPAA anyone?
Several politicians (aka Hatch) anyone?
Hello…bueller….bueller…
June 7th, 2004 at 11:21 pm
Clear Channel clearly has a monopoly in radio broadcasting. All you have to do is listen to the radio for a couple hours to here the same song three times. most people i know quit listening to the radio a long time ago. But of course kids will ask for the CDs they hear on the radio, fueling the monopoly further. If you notice, you wont hear anything about your local music scene (maybe a couple hours a week) on your local music station. Corporations will continue the great tradition of finding legal loopholes around laws that decrease their bottom line. So lets just keep jamming limp bizkit, nickelback and Creed, Nelly, ludacris, and the yeah yeah “you got it bad” guy. Im sure im missing a bunch of mainstream, non-lyrical, poorly consturucted beat, chorus catchy, crap, but thats the way it is.