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    Disappointed
    American
    Jul 07 10:10 AM
    Georgetown Partners' Latest Radio Proposal Raises Many Questions [view article]
    To FCC;
    You all should be embarrassed, and fired! You have lied and stalled enough. 180 day clock =a scam, by the end of the year=a Lie, by the end of the first quarter=another Lie, Shortly after the DOJ decision=another lie, Martin says he was having multiple drafts written months ago=lie. Now shortly and pretty shortly; but no drafts circulated in over a year and a half! Now By the second quarter again nothing…..What have they done in all that time????? DOJ has proven this is not a monopoly! Allow the licenses to be combined and stop pandering to every group out there! They have no right trying to get my Company for free, I paid for shares of my company and you have no right to give anybody anything that I own. If the minorities want more radio exposure let them go buy a radio station with their own money. This is a free country, not a socialist state. So allow the combo with no concessions other than what the companies agreed to begin with. I hope you are all investigated for this disgrace, you are going far beyond what the FCC was intended for and now you are using this unassigned power to destroy American confidence in our government, and any company you choose to destroy. Your stalling of this decision has cost me personally and many more I am sure, I hope the companies file suit for your stall tactics, the empire state building was built in less time. And both companies have now lost the Millions/ Billions due to your indecision. You have no right to cost companies so much. This is America, free market capitalism, remember? This is not a necessity it is a pay luxury service. Mr. Martin do you have a Boss that oversees you, or are you a free-bird with no one to answer to? I would like to speak to your boss because no common sense decision can take over a year to make. I don’t know of any company, employee, or anybody that can take so long to do a job and still have a job after showing this amount of incompetence. I want you and you group all fired. Here is a link to a video that shows how irrelevant you group is; www.youtube.com/watch?...
    So in ending you appear to be protecting your buddies at the NAB, and pandering to any special interest group wanting something for free. How about the Americans you supposed to be protecting? By the length of time you have been taking means one thing to this American and that is you are saying FU to ME. And I want you Fired. I will be sending this to anyone that will read it, the sad thing about that is that unless it is accompanied with a check, I assume no government official will read it.

    Signed; One disappointed American.
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  • commenter
    Gregg
    Jul 07 09:34 AM
    Georgetown Partners' Latest Radio Proposal Raises Many Questions [view article]
    A book should be written about this when all is said and done. Everyone knows that lobbyists run the show but watching this story has made me sick and ashamed of our government. This comes from a guy from Chicago - the hometown of corruption!
    Consumers want this merger. Has there ever been a merger so overwhelmingly endorsed by the consumers of a product??

    Keep calling/writing the FCC and your congressmen.     Reply
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    omagod500
    Jul 07 08:10 AM
    Georgetown Partners' Latest Radio Proposal Raises Many Questions [view article]
    This makes me pull my hair out - is our government really holding a billion dollar deal up for this garbage? Correction - does our government really expect us to buy that this is why they are holding up a billion dollar deal? (everyone knows why the deal is really being held up and it has nothing to do with minorities...) Reply
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    muley101
    Jul 07 07:34 AM
    Georgetown Partners' Latest Radio Proposal Raises Many Questions [view article]
    Chester Davenport, John Kerry, and their ilk who want the combined company to give up half the channels have absolutely no credibility and therefore should be completely ignored by the FCC. Further, the combined company should allocate one channel at a time of the set-aside channels to truely minority-owned companies, not a block of channels to something like Georgetown Partners so they can profit from them while adding no value. Reply
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    verggreatnes
    s
    Jul 07 05:22 AM
    Georgetown Partners' Latest Radio Proposal Raises Many Questions [view article]
    blah, blah, blah,.....doesn't matter because if the merger doesn't go through Clear Channel will buy XM and have 50% of SDARS.....just get the merger done already because you bet Clear Channel would love to cash in and get XM at a steep discount. Reply
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    richard
    cavessa
    Jul 04 01:14 PM
    My Website
    The Future of Radio Is Online [view article]
    one thing for sure people will seek what they feel is fair. they know what is right and wrong....many will seek shelter in fear and ignorance....at least we have a choice Reply
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    john s.
    gordon
    Jul 03 09:47 AM
    Is Rush Limbaugh Worth Clear Channel's Record Breaking Contract? [view article]
    limbaugh & stern - seems like garbage always makes money for somebody.
    > jack     Reply
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    User 220214
    Jul 03 09:14 AM
    Is Rush Limbaugh Worth Clear Channel's Record Breaking Contract? [view article]
    Keep in mind that $200 million of those dollars are going to be going to the Feds in taxes. They should be happy about this. Implementing the Fairness Doctrine will only cut their own throats. This wouldn't surprise me, though, as it's pretty typical of the left. Reply
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    Bluehorsesho
    e_Loves_Visa
    Jul 03 04:10 AM
    Is Rush Limbaugh Worth Clear Channel's Record Breaking Contract? [view article]
    Clear Channel may rue the day they made this huge pay out to Rush if Pelosi, Reid, Obama and other liberals bring back the Fairness Doctrine.

    There is a concerted effort on the left to destroy conservative media. If they succeed, this payout will be like flushing money down the toilet.     Reply
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    Tom B
    Jul 02 12:49 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "The Bush administation will have a legacy of turning back nuclear proliferation in Libya, with AQ Khan,"

    Where's Khan now? Wasn't he on house arrest and then inexplicably released instead of executed?     Reply
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    Right in
    San
    Francisco
    Jul 02 12:13 PM
    My Website
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    This Israel / Iran situation is the most dangerous of the past several years. In addition to the Reuters article:
    - The Olmert government has major problems, has recently received little complaint for taking out a nuclear site in Syria,and may need to have elections by the end of the year;
    - The Bush administation will have a legacy of turning back nuclear proliferation in Libya, with AQ Khan, and apparently in North Korea, not to mention the elimination of a threat in Iraq. Only Iran remains.
    - Despite Obama's "tell them whatever they want to hear" speech to AIPAC, the Israelis are very concerned about his commitment to meet with Ahmedinejad without preconditions.
    A dangerous soup indeed.     Reply
  • commenter
    Bob Kincaid
    Jul 02 11:26 AM
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    The Future of Radio Is Online [view article]
    User 168418, it probably goes without saying since everyone shot right past your assertion, but Internet Radio's already here, friend. What's more, it doesn't require one iota of FCC approval. Like satellite radio, it is beyond the purview of the FCC and both Internet and Satellite radio have a significant edge over terrestrial buggywhip radio in that folks can say what they want and not have to worry about a million dollars in FCC fines incited by the breathless complaints of a gang of brain-dead, knuckle-walking, mouth-breathing fundamentalist thought-thugs.

    With regard to local radio stations' ability to service local businesses via advertising, there's a kernel of truth to it if the station is actually local. A vast number of so-called local stations are no longer "local." They're owned by a distant corporate conglomerate that beams in programming via satellite, providing very few actual jobs in the radio industry, especially where on-air talent is concerned. There are, to be sure, a few Mom & Pop radio stations left out there, but not a lot. Terrestrial radio is largely a dead letter: a medium hustling pre-screened, focus-grouped, corporatized pablum as the mostly musical equivalent of the sugar in front of the nasty medicine that is sheep-like America's 24/7 "consumer culture" narcotic.     Reply
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    Tom B
    Jul 02 09:13 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "Sources say Microsoft (MSFT) has talked with both Time Warner (TWX) and News Corp. (NWS) about joining it in a deal that would see Microsoft buy Yahoo's (YHOO) search business, while one of them would combine forces with what remained of Yahoo."

    This works for me, as a Yahoo CUSTOMER. Yahoo search-- who cares? I DID care about MSFT acquiring Yahoo Mail and Flickr, because those services would certainly suffer under the direction of Ballmer and his nitwits (witness how MSFT destroyed HoTMaiL).

    "But lawyers said that the kind of legal requests being issued by the Justice Department in this case - "civil investigative demands" - are not routine."

    It will be routine; there are no credible antitrust issues here. MSFT bribed a few buddies in Washington, no doubt, to raise a ruckus, the the current, corrupt administration gets its walking papers on 1/20/09.

    "Massive downsizing at Starbucks." What took so long? Downscale Dunkin Donuts makes better coffee, at half the price. Starbucks has always brewed way too dark.

    "Blockbuster (BBI) officially withdrew its offer to buy Circuit City Stores (CC)" Tying to "loser" companies together is rarely a recipe for success. Time Warner/AOL. MSFT/Yahoo, had it gone through.

    "Ford said June sales were limited due to tight supplies of small cars."
    Gee, they could have planned for this, say, 15 years ago when I took my first trip to Europe and was amazed by all the really cool FUEL EFFICIENT cars you could buy. In the States, you had little choice then but monstrous SUV's. I had a Corolla then-- and excellent car-- but not as efficient as many of the models I saw in Europe.

    "Senior Pentagon officials say there is an increasing likelihood Israel will attack Iran,". Perhaps you differ in this, Eli, but I'd rather have you guys do it than us.

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    atauber
    Jul 02 09:06 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    trucker please close the bathroom it....................... Reply
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    Joe Chase
    Jul 02 09:06 AM
    My Website
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    You are ignorant. Reply
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