Try living in Austin, where everything is owned by Clear Channel(their headquarters are in San Antonio). They own all but two of the radio stations and most of the music venues. Ticket prices to shows are expensive as hell and all I hear on the radio are commercials.
They try to act like they care about music, but you can tell all they want is money. Money, which is used to buy up more independent radio stations (if there are any left).
The two things that piss me off the most about clear channel is that most of their stations don't play music in the morning, they have NATIONAL talk shows, that occasionlly play a song. Why, because it's cheaper. The second reason, is that when it is time for a commercial, all the C.C. stations have commercials at the same time. I've heard the same commercial, within five minutes on four different stations. It didn't use to be like that when stations were independent. IT'S THE F***ING RADIO, PLAY MUSIC.
All I got to say is thank god for my CD player.
Death to Clear Channel