This is huge. I wanted to make sure people saw this memo. If you feel others should see the ABC “Blackout” Memo, be sure to recommend this diary.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200610310010
Karl @ Media Matters
Air America Blacklisted by Advertisers?
ABC Memo Reveals Air America Advertiser “Blackout”
Washington, DC — An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, indicates that nearly 100 ABC advertisers insist that their commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates. According to the memo, the advertisers insist that “NONE of their commercials air during AIR AMERICA programming.” Among the advertisers listed are Bank of America, Exxon Mobil, Federal Express, General Electric, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and the U.S. Navy.
To View the Memo, CLICK HERE.
To read more, CLICK HERE.
Interesting, if so — as about 1/3 of AAR affiliates are owned by Clearchannel.
Just fwiw, since its inception I’ve personally never heard an ad by any of the named advertisers on AAR.
Somehow they seem like the kind of multinational corporations that AAR would most likely not be seeking out as advertisers anyway.
why, because they’re “liberals”?
unlike those proud members of the advertising kosably network?
Unfortunately for some reason I can’t get the permalink page to come up.
This is not a free market. The invisible hand that’s supposed to guide our markets has been lopped off at the elbow by anti-competitive practices by the multi-national corporations.