One cannot help draw comparisons between the death of the King of Pop, the music industry that created him and the radio stations that made him a star.
First of all, there would be no MTV videos, no world tours, no enormous record sales without radio stations playing Michael Jackson's music.
In fact, without radio there would likely be no Michael Jackson.
Those of my programming brethren who, like me, played plenty of Michael Jackson hits (and catalog items disguised as recurrents and oldies) know this for sure.
The music industry, busy lobbying Congress for the repeal of radio's performance tax exemption, would&hellip
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