Minority Broadcast Hearing Sways to PRA

I wish every city in America had a regular Jared Taylor, or the Council of Conservative Citizens, style radio or TV show in the air on a regular basis. But if not that, then I would be more than happy to have more of these black radical bigmouths like St. Louisans Lizz Brown, Onion Horton, Jacob Israel (who believes that black Americans are the true “Jews,”) and nationally like Bob Law. Five such stations in every city are the second best advertisement for WNism/RRism.

Whatever happened to the loudmouth Rev. Ike from P.O. Box 1000 Boston, Mass.? I worked (very briefly) at a black owned, black staffed body shop so I had to listen to him and the local blacks talk about how much money they sent Ike, “to do god’s good work” pathetic.

If we have radio station ownership that reflects America, i.e., women and persons of color, can we have white artists played on all the radio stations? Call it compensation or even diversity if you’d like.

So the musicians want a performance royalty? I always thought it was tantamount to free promotion for a radio station to play an artists music. An up and coming artist or a lesser known with a new album should be in the station manager’s ear begging to get thier stuff played for the exposure.

Oh well. Maybe all radio will go to the talk format.

Question Diversity:

First of all, hello from St. Louis! I’m visiting family in Bridgeton for the weekend. Which radio stations feature these people? I’d like to tune in sometime.

exkc: Not anywhere at the moment, Onion Horton will return when the 1490 station changes format this month.

Are there actually any residents left in Bridgeton? That was the last almost all white suburb in north St. Louis County, which of course had to be paved over for a new airport runway that nobody uses, because Lambert isn’t a hub anymore. They could have ran the runway east over Kinloch, which was almost levelled to the ground anyway by its “diverse” residents, but I suppose the 100 blacks still living there were too precious to displace.

Question Diversity:

The Irish Catholic side of my family from Bridgeton/St. Ann is a jovial, happy-go-lucky, if you can laugh at it you can live with it typeB of people. I enjoy their company immensely and always enjoy my visits with them.
I shared your observations with some of my relatives that are well in their 60’s; let’s just say that happy-go-lucky countenance changed rather abruptly. I definitely whacked a nerve.
This may not be a fair comparison since the events took place decades apart. But, the final completion of Hwy. 71 from 75th St. to downtown was a much welcomed traffic congestion reliever. Well, mayor Cleaver didn’t want to disrupt the ghetto’s fragile ecosystem, so instead of using tunnels or overpasses, he had the road made at grade and installed red lights at Gregory, 59th and 55th Sts. on a perfectly good new highway. For some reason, only 63rd St. has an overpass. These red lights have blocked traffic up so badly that it has almost defeated the purpose of building a new highway and pedestrians from the ghetto walk across the highway without a second thought. I’ve even seen women pushing baby strollers across 71 with a couple of kids skipping along right behind her during evening rush hour.
Well, nobody seemed to care when the construction of I-70 disrupted, scattered and deracinated almost the entire Italian neighborhood in NE KC. That area was not only safe and culturally enriched but it gave back to the community as well.

exkc:

I know that part of Highway 71. All MoDOT did was to end the main lanes and default them onto the one-way outer roads. There’s more than enough grass in the median to build the interstate highway quality lanes when “community” (read: ghetto) opposition subsides. That will be I-49 one of these days.

Possibly a “dumb” question but why would (or should) radio station owner be marketing to anything other an the listener base THE OWNERS desire to target? If you own a station and broadcast a certain program style, you cannot control WHO choses to listen or who does not. So you select your program fare according to what YOU, the owner, would perceive to attract the greatest local audience (listeners with what is called “discetionary income”) in order to induce advertisers to buy air time with your station. In other words, draw your own conclusions. It’s something called marketing strategy and economics.

If Blacks in a geographic area consider themselves underrepresented in radio or TV broadcasting, the simple answer is to organize and pool their financial resources to BUY their own radio or TV station. The government does not, emphatically NOT need to stick its collective noeses into this picture.