When I saw the headline "Clear Channel Locks Up Programmers" in Inside Radio's afternoon email yesterday, I'd be lying if I told you I didn't say, "oh, shit".
It sounded like "Hogan Gone Wild" to me. It's not bad enough to underpay, under budget and under appreciate their employees but now he's throwing them in jail?
Well actually, all kidding aside, I like what Clear Channel Radio President John Hogan is doing on this issue in principle. It's a beginning. He deserves some credit for starting somewhere because the other radio groups aren't even trying to do multi-year deals with their people. It's true Clear Channel is&hellip
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