Rather than a national or state outlet, it was the music industry that controlled the content. Yank capitalism and all that. Radio stations got their material from the promoters, instructions on how much to play each record, all re-enforced by payola at its naked best. Various labels owned various outlets, or the networks were paid by the labels.
They even owned the jukebox franchises and those little miniature versions at the tables of every diner in the country (Remember those, Mike?)
There were indeed what we called the Alternative Stations, many of which were university funded or owned, that told the likes of Decca to piss off, how we got prog rock and local talent instead of Beatles bubblegum pablum-pop the labels served up in one great flavourless boring bowl after another.
Instead of a national censored outlet, we had commercial censored outlets. "Buy, buy, buy!"
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