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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoiHeartMedia plays artists that they own, either record contract or catalogue.
When I lived in the UK my local gym always had the same shitty radio station on and I was like “Why do they keep playing these artists? I almost never heard them on BBC” and it turned out to be because the owners of the radio station also owned those artists. Vertical integration baby!
IronBird@lemmy.world 1 week ago
and iHeart owns like 60-70% of all radio stations across the US, which is why every station plays the same stuff