Greetings to Clear Channel
If any of you have been tracking the evolution of social networking, you might have heard that Clear Channel has just joined the fray. Oh goodey!
What’s most interesting about this is that Clear Channel has in the past - proven to be one of the most negative influences and factors in the entertainment industry. Their strangleghold over the live music scene, the regurgative, robotic programming approach, their insipid CD-burning patent attempts, their mafia like approach to controlling all stages of the food chain - is well let’s just say - are legendary.
So now they’re gonna create a bunch of social networks. One for each radio market. Well at least they understand the notion of distributed, decentralized networks. Now lets see if they support our open standards!
I have to assume that they think they’ll own their end-users profiles and content.
This will be one big opportunity for Clear Channel to change their rep - or reinforce it.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:31 am
this is such a no-brainer though. talk radio audiences are very ripe territory for social networking. music audiences are too, but theres a huge overlap there with myspace, and most music djs already have myspace pages. i could be wrong but my impression of clearchannel is that it owns moer music stations.