A key public radio station in Southern California, KPCC, is thinking big - as in becoming a megastation reaching 25 million listeners from San Diego to Santa Barbara. How? By buying up other stations and making them satellites of the main station.
Now isn't this what the folks who support Public Radio generally accuse corporate chain owners of doing? buying up local stations, removing local programming and services, all to cut the costs of programming and to sell more "noncommercial" commercials for more money.
It'll be interesting to see how various groups react to a public radio station doing almost everything they claim is bad and evil about corporate radio conglomerates.
Source: "Making Public Radio a Little More Private," Bloomburg Businessweek
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