• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    iHeartMedia plays artists that they own, either record contract or catalogue.

    When I lived in the UK my local gym always had the same shitty radio station on and I was like “Why do they keep playing these artists? I almost never hear them on BBC” and it turned out to be because the owners of the radio station also owned those artists. Vertical integration baby!

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      1 month ago

      and iHeart owns like 60-70% of all radio stations across the US, which is why every station plays the same stuff