haha me too!
― sleeve, Friday, 13 January 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
"Drone rock mandated when driving through the desert at 2 am."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 January 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34789-democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 January 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
https://www.wired.com/2004/10/xmradio/
Abrams has another advantage: a surfeit of available DJ talent. When he arrived at XM three years before launch, many of the country's best DJs were disillusioned, disenfranchised, or out of the industry. Conglomerates, newly empowered by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to own multiple radio stations, were consolidating and shedding overhead – particularly the salaries of creative, engaged DJs
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 January 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
this is p amazing if you want a picture of what Bay Area radio pre-Telecom Act sounded like
https://archive.org/details/schweizerairchecks?&sort=-downloads&page=2
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
Anyway I keep reading this as being about the Elvis Telecom act of 1996.
I was going through a lot back then.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 04:32 (seven years ago) link
I did a few shows at BRU (AM though, haha). Starting in about.. 1994 I guess? Just dumb sound collage weirdness, I thought I was Negativland or something :/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 08:13 (seven years ago) link