Corporate FM Trailer

Published on Mar 30, 2012

http://fmfilm.com The internet didn’t kill radio, commercial radio is killing itself. Ever wonder why über-corporations like Clear Channel can take over local radio stations, fire your favorite deejay and ignore the local music movements? How can they make money when fewer and fewer people listen? Private Equity firms such as Bain Capital have changed radio and made handsome profits along the way.
The medium of radio becomes threatened when there are only 2 stations worth listening to. When live local voices are replaced with prerecorded and satellite programs, it ends an age-old symbiotic relationship between radio and the community. By investigating how the financial system gutted commercial radio instead of growing it, documentary film-makers Kevin McKinney & Jill McKeever reveal a new way that could revitalize the medium and rejuvenate the communities that radio is there to serve.