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Radio's Howard Stern has created a broadcast empire out of ethnic slurs and arrested adolescence. The Federal Communications Commission is not amused, and fined KLSX-FM in Los Angeles -- one of the nation's 10 Stern-carrying stations -- a record $105,000 for airing Stern's dirty laundry...
While techno has yet to produce a Top 10 pop hit, its audience is steadily growing. In Los Angeles at least three radio stations are devoting significant airtime to the format (one, MARS-FM, restored its all-techno format after cutbacks provoked a storm of listener protest). Major labels like Sony and RCA are signing up groups and putting their marketing muscle behind techno music. Techno compilation CDs recently released by Profile Records and Zoo Entertainment are selling briskly...
...determine how music is marketed. Executives who program for traditional rock stations fret that the white teens who make up their audiences won't identify with black rockers. Black programmers argue that their listeners are turned off by the heavy-metal sound. Says Mike Stradford, programming director at KKBT-FM, a rhythm-and- blues station in Los Angeles: "We make money by playing the music that our listeners want to hear...
...Winning is an attitude," the billboard proclaims. "Temple basketball on 91.1 WCWR-FM...
...seats for M.C. Hammer's concert at the Tokyo Dome were spoken for. Millions of dollars' worth of CDs -- from New Age to rap to jazz to blues -- are bought at stores like Tower Records. Don't want to buy? Listen to American music on J-Wave (81.3 FM), presented by English-speaking deejays with names like Jon and Carole...