{"id":4697,"date":"2012-04-26T13:16:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2012-04-26T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:16:43","slug":"diverse-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"Diverse this!"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City is getting a major major change.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a news story I bet you won’t hear Al Sharpton leading riots over.<\/p>\n

One of the largest “black radio” station owners (Inner City Broadcasting)\u00a0 is in bankruptcy. \u00a0 It was pushed over the edge by Ron Burkle, a close associate of Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Prior posts on this: http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=2618<\/a><\/p>\n

So with the bankruptcy moving forward, Burkle has\u00a0 taken control of the “urban” radio stations.\u00a0 Mr Burkle is rich and white.<\/p>\n

Today’s news is that one of the New York City urban stations is being switched to become ESPN FM in New York – a move probably suggesting station was worth 10x as much by not being a “blacks only” station.\u00a0\u00a0 The existing WPEN-AM will simulcast for now, but eventually become ESPN Deportes, the Spanish language version of ESPN.<\/p>\n

If the Koch Brothers took over a “black radio” station in New York City, you know it would not be well received in Harlem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York City is getting a major major change.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a news story I bet you won’t hear Al Sharpton leading riots over. One of the largest “black radio” station owners (Inner City Broadcasting)\u00a0 is in bankruptcy. \u00a0 It … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4701,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions\/4701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}