Taking on Clear Channel


Issue #59 of Punk Planet has a short piece on old-school subversives Negativland and their light-hearted attack on a Clear Channel radio station in Seattle. As if Clear Channel's monopoly over the airwaves, concert venues, and outdoor advertising wasn't enough, apparently one of the stations they own in Seattle (KJR-FM) has been guilty of a little false advertising. In spite of billing itself as bringing you the SuperHits of the 60's and 70's, one of their DJs was slipping a little Men at Work and Cyndi Lauper into the playlist. You can now hear Dick Diekobiscz take over pirate radio stations around Seattle and rant and rave in parody over at Negativland's site. The best part? That all the attention actually forced Clear Channel's KJR-FM to stick to 60's and 70's music. One small step at a time...