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Prometheus/Cheap Channel Storm the NAB!

author: Cheap Channel Radio
Sep 13, 2002 17:18

Cheap Channel Radio presents its product at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention, Friday, September 13th!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: HANNAH 267.970.4007 CONTACT: PETRI 215.605.9297 At 9:45 on Friday, September 13th, at the Exhibition Floor of this year's National Association of Broadcasters Convention, activists succesfully formed a marriage between the media democracy movement and the daily activities of corporate broadcasters. The marriage was attended by journalists and attendees of the NAB convention, although the media-democracy brides were escorted out, minutes later, by angry policemen. Hannah Sassaman, the program coordinator of the Prometheus Radio Project, and Jeff Perlstein, the executive director of the Media Alliance, posed as cheerleaders for Cheap Channel Radio (http://www.cheapchannelradio.com. They walked into the exhibition floor, gathered the attention of the merchants and corporate representatives, and delivered a scathing parody of Clear Channel's business model to corporate executives and salesmen all too familiar with the way the company works. It was this same familiarity that Sassaman and Perlstein used to their advantage. They unfurled a banner emblazoned with Clear Channel's marketing message, slightly tweaked -- "How many times has Cheap Channel breached you today?" it read. To the sudden amazement and intermittent delight of the staffers of the Arbitron booth, nearby the presentation, and the Prophet Systems booth, the only wholly-owned Clear Channel subsidiary to exhibit this year, Sassaman and Perlstein touted the 'superior synergistic technology' of their organization. "Why retain any staff members from companies you take over? Cheap Channel keeps only minimal humans and programs its' stations with DJBOTs -- reaching market shares never available before -- like in the Marinas Trench, and on the Moon," they noted. Later, at a panel on Clear Channel at the Reclaim the Media conference at Town Hall, Perlstein and Sassaman recounted their success and brainstormed with Brad Johnson and Davey D, both prominent anti-Clear Channel activists, on how to use the Cheap Channel launch to best advantage. "With enough media coverage of interesting and cheerful attacks on this McDonald's of the media industry, legislative opportunities meant to limit further deregulation of broadcast media such as the Feingold Competition in Radio and Concert Industries act (see http://feingold.senate.gov/releases/02/06/062702medcon.html) can get the support they need. To learn more about Cheap Channel Radio, the Media Alliance, or the Prometheus Radio Project, refer to the links below, or contact Hannah or Pete! http://www.cheapchannelradio.com http://www.media-alliance.org http://www.prometheusradio.org

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