Hell hath no fury like pissed off radio programmers, that's all I can say.
Mind, I'm not precisely certain that this is what's happening -- their format can best be described as "country/classic-rock/modern-rock eclectic" ... on a good day. But I'm pretty sure that KPIG Freedom/Santa Cruz/Watsonville CA is making something of a dedicated effort to work their way through some noticeable portion of the Clear Channel Communications banned music list. They haven't said that's what they're doing in the short time I've been listening today, and there's other stuff mixed in so that I can't be absolutely certain ... but there's been a few ... (Clear Channel banned a Barenaked Ladies song? they banned "On Broadway"? They banned "Johnny Angel" and "Mack the Knife"? Lenny Kravitz "Fly Away"? What on earth ... Shelly Fabares is subersive? Barnaked Ladies is a group of rampageously dangerous Canadians? What? That list is so far beyond making sense that it's laughable. To say nothing of pointing out that their stations have some seriously antique playlists.)
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