i dont know if you have noticed but, in places like walgrens or target, big corperations mostly, they have thier own private (usualy satillite) radio station. this is because of royalty demands from terr. stations.

as i just explained, bastards….. radio stations are STILL demanding royalties from small private biz….pathetic.

Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL)

Check this out on slashdot.org for more info and bloggin’:

http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/04/27/0334203.shtml

this whole thing about net radio prices is just plain criminal. i have heard stories from my old bosses that radio station reps used to go into businesses (usualy small family owned stores) and DEMAND money if they played whatever particular radio station they represented in the store during business hours!

the radio stations said this was because the stores were using thier “product” to help increse sales, and the radio station wanted its piece of the pie! because without the radio obviously the biz would make no money…just plain wrong.

(this was mostly in the 70’s - 80’s)

this is the same thing only on a bigger scale and a differnt time.
fucking crinimal bastard corperations…scum, anything to make a buck!!! they would sell thier own children to cannibals if it raised thier stock one percentage point i swear to god!