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From: David Duvall 
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 04 22:20:59 +0200
Subject: RADIO STATIONS
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*** Quoting Howie Coombe from a message to David Duvall ***

HC> I would think of it as a dicussion on Spiritual Extreamism in music, 
HC> Censorship in music and political correctness in music and as such, 
HC> as long as you rememberthe words "in music", totally on topic, ish.

What do you consider extreme about the lyrical content?

 > Anyway, I haven't noticed any rise in these stations.
HC> None?, not even relitivly speaking?, i could be wrong or we could 
HC> have a different definition of "these stations", or maybe i am just 
HC> surprised and disapointed in the lack of numbers of Contempory 
HC> Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic or Judaic Music Stations, which i think 
HC> would be a good thing in Americaright now.

No, not even relatively speaking.
I think I've wondered that myself about why there are no other stations (that I
am aware of) for other religious beliefs.

HC> Aha, actually in my local experience it is the Contempory Christian 
HC> Music Stations that one should look out for, their DJ's look and 
HC> sound perfectly Contempory,untill they open their mouths, at which 
HC> point they tend to sound conservative at best

Well, not everyone is conservative or liberal.  Ones views may offend others,
whether it's DJ's or lyrics.  Some people may not care either way.

 > Overall, I would say it's traditional church-type music.


HC> At least with that kind of music you know what sort of dj's you are 
HC> getting.

Agreed.

HC> Ahh, but how big a share of your radio market are those stations 
HC> getting?.

I think this is about Christian station.  I believe there's two FM stations
that fit this category.  So, not many.

 > If it's bad to you, then don't listen to it. :)
HC> Good idea exept like all people with a social engineering aware brain 
HC> and nannyish tendency's i am not worryed for me, i am worried for 
HC> everybody else.

Well, if these people are offended by the DJ's/songs played on the radio, why
can't they also just turn to another station?  There's plenty of secular song
lyrics on the radio that I think could offend people, whether it's the content
or profanity.  I think the same goes for what DJ's might say too.  I'm not
saying you're going to here really bad words on the station all the time, but
they might let things slide here and there.  Maybe more later at night perhaps?