Radio, promoter each blames other for cut in Chicks tour

Houston Chronicle ^ | 8-15-06 | MICHAEL D. CLARK and TARA DOOLEY

[4yearlurker]

What good does it do a radio station to accept advertising money when the public will tune out?

[beansox]

Yet it was perfectly allright for them to try and blacklist Winter Soldier.

Dixie Chicks: ‘Boycott Sinclair’
Newsmax ^ | Oct. 19, 2004 | Newsmax


Posted on 10/19/2004 11:19:38 AM PDT by Novel


Dixie Chicks: ‘Boycott Sinclair’

In what they call a "Sinclair Media Alert,” the country group The Dixie Chicks have called for a boycott of Sinclair Broadcasting for using "their monopoly rights to the public airwaves ... to sway the election in favor of a candidate that staunchly allows media companies to get even bigger.”

The Chicks characterize radio giant Clear Channel as using "its power to promote a pro-Republican, pro-war agenda,” and then proceed to compare Sinclair with Clear Channel. "Now we have a giant television company that is making Clear Channel's antics look like a day at the beach,” the Chicks' Website declares.

The Chicks also provide some legal analysis for their fans, maintaining that Sinclair’s plans to air "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal” on its 62 stations constitutes a "clear violation of the spirit of the law.”

The Chicks punctuate their alert saying, "during the past week there has been a massive backlash, and Sinclair is on the defensive. They are on the ropes and we need you to help us keep them there.”
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[beckett]

They dissed the president on foreign soil, dissed their fellow artists, dissed their fans, and dissed the execs who make the music industry run.

Career suicide in spades, all because of Natalie Maines' Berkeley-born ego.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

For those who forget, in the end Sinclair caved to the left. The show only aired a couple of minutes from "Stolen Honor" among with other media coverage of Kerry. It was at the very least neutral and maybe even favorable to his side. I called what Sinclair finally aired "Stolen Hour" and immediately went out of my way to tape over it.

Now for the funny part. To this day on lib sites the name Sinclair Broadcasting is used like a curse. The left still blames them for airing a show they didn't which gives us another lesson on how giving into them gets one absolutely nothing.

[GOPJ]

I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it," Chicks fiddler Maguire said in the Time story, "who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do."

WOW! Maybe for their next album they can have a picture of all of them, on stage, giving the finger to their fans. It would be soooooo them...