Inside Music MediaJerry Del Colliano

It's Christmas and time to help the neediest. And CBS, Citadel, Entercom and Clear Channel would have you believe that they are the neediest. These groups along with TV and newspaper execs are trying to get the FCC to repeal the "severe ownership restrictions" in a time when technological and marketplace developments have made competing more difficult. Are these people serious? The radio industry got everything they wanted in 1996 with passage of the Telecommunications Act. And all they've proven ten years later is that they couldn't run more than two stations in a market even with a virtual monopoly. Now they want another bite of&hellip