Posts tagged Radio

Time and time again, the real decision makers get away with murder while rap artists are projected as the embodiment of everything that is wrong with Hip Hop and young Black males.

Music industry veteran Paul Porter has released the book “Blackout,” an explosive look at the corruption running rampant in the music industry.

“After working for NBC Radio, Radio One, Clear Channel, iHeart, Cox, I wanted to do it my way,” Porter says.

Blackout: My Forty Years In The Music Business, is a chronicle of my successes and failures, my dreams and disappointments in the music business.

Blackout also examines “legal payola” and how corporations are now the major beneficiaries of under-the-table payments and pay-to-play.

My on air discussion with Bob Romanik, of KQQZ St Louis. Romanik has recently hurled the N-Word on air, on the regular.

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Dr Wilmer Leon the host of Inside The Issues on SiriusXM’s Urban View, interviews Paul Porter and Paul Billings about The Wire 98.5.

At first glance, iHeartMedia looks like the model 21st century media conglomerate, truly a colossus with interests across media: owner of 858 radio stations;

America does a great job of projecting a great image of a free press.