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1. Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl (karldahl@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-May-2023 20:49:54 JST Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl

   • Kenny Blankenship
   "The 1996 Telecommunications Act removed all national and local restrictions on national ownership that specified the number of stations one company could own in a set market. Before 1996, a company was prohibited from owning more than 40 stations, and from owning more than two AM and two FM stations in one market"
   
   The sales pitch:
   
   "An Act to promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid development of new telecommunications technologies"
   
   This absolutely destroyed radio
   
   RT: https://poa.st/objects/8c475206-d29c-4046-ac53-d969b7d0806a
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   • Shadowman311 (shadowman311@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-May-2023 20:49:53 JST Shadowman311

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     • Kenny Blankenship
     @KarlDahl @DW2 Most Radio stations now are just iHeartRadio satellite stations that play the same music playlists per genre, with the only significant difference being the DJs. Beyond that it's the same algorithms, same songs, same everything.
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   • Shadowman311 (shadowman311@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-May-2023 20:50:30 JST Shadowman311

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     • Shadowman311
     • Kenny Blankenship
     @KarlDahl @DW2 You could get, and usually do, get better selection from any music streaming service by just picking a category and finding the requisite station on said service. And on services like Pandora you can even filter by the less well known songs to get variety that way.
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