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'Not a viable business anymore': Bell Media selling 45 radio stations amid layoffs (www.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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BCE Inc. is selling off 45 of its 103 regional radio stations as it cuts nine per cent of its workforce, including journalists and other workers at its Bell Media subsidiary.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (16 children)

The radio company playbook:

  1. Realize that radio is not profitable because nobody is listening to it
  2. Run more ads in order to get more revenue
  3. More people stop listening to radio since there are too many ads
  4. Return to step 1. repeat until the business is viable.

Invisible airwaves crackle with life, bright antenna bristle with the energy. Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength. Bearing a gift beyond price almost free.

  • Rush, The Spirit of Radio

How did we take such an amazing thing as having music beamed into the air around us for free and enshittify it to the point that nobody believes it has value?

Thank God there's still the CBC. For now at least

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When I go to France, I'm amazed at how many clear TV channels you can get over the air for free. Same with radio stations. And every region has their local little thing going on alongside the big players like Virgin or whatever. I never met anyone there that had a cable subscription.

To me, this is one sign of a healthy democracy because information and entertainment isn't blocked behind paid subscriptions and not all sources are manipulated by mega media corporations to provide biased information and opinions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure the tv channels are free? I'm only familiar with Germany: you can get a ton of channels as well but you have to essentially pay a tax for having a tv.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Well it's "free" in the same sense that healthcare is "free". Everybody contributes a little bit.

Yes in France they have the same kind of tax.

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