The “abrupt” change in WRKS(FM) New York’s format from adult urban to...
The “abrupt” change in WRKS(FM) New York’s format from adult urban to sports in recent weeks when Disney took over programming “speaks to a much larger crisis plaguing black radio and the radio industry,” several groups that oppose media consolidation…
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wrote FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. “We call on the FCC to study the state of black radio ownership and programming diversity, and to adopt rules that finally address our nation’s media inequality.” Black radio’s been “devastated by media consolidation,” wrote Free Press, Future of Media Coalition, Industry Ears, Prometheus Radio Project and others in docket 09-182 (http://xrl.us/bnc3t2). “We call on the FCC to investigate whether payola continues to play a major role in determining what airs on these outlets.” Disney had no comment.