Big Businesses Control of Radio

In class we learned that all of the radio stations are now owned by only two different companies. I think that this is a good example how media, and in turn big business can affect culture. Radio influences culture by providing us music to listen to. We then purchase music based on what we have heard and whether or not we like it. Obviously their is a profit to be made in this industry. Record companies have learned that they can make more money off of a few extremely
succesful aritsits, than they could off of alot of moderatley succesful artists. Using this strategy they limit the variety of music you can hear on the radio. The lack of varitey on the radio indirectly affects culture. Music is obviously a big part of culture, limiting the amount of music that is available can affect how rich certain culutres could be.