In Sunday’s Cincinnati Enquirer, John Kiesewetter details the situation at local radio station WLW-AM, whose staffers have been informed that they can make no mention of any television station personalities - or stations at all - that compete with WLW owner Clear Channel’s WKRC-TV. Nor will ads for the “competition” make the airwaves.
Radio stations not discussing other radio stations - or TV stations doing the same isn’t too uncommon. But one format not being able to report, or discuss, another seems a little over the top - and the only people that lose out are the listeners. Now, WLW listeners will never know if WKRC is being discussed more often because it’s in the news, or because Clear Channel has affected what’s going on internally.
