[BC] On Air Operations - MJ Tributes

[Barry Mishkind]

Just curious.

I've been reading a lot of comments that say, essentially, that aside 
from a very few stations, most of the "oldies" stations and rockers 
basically ignored the Michael Jackson story because there was no one 
in the studio all weekend.

Others have indicated it was a corporate edict: spend no money on 
Michael Jackson.

You programmers out there, was your sense that the industry let its 
listeners down?

Now ... I'm NOT talking about "news" and "speculation" on the death 
of MJ.  (IMHO, the so-called "news" coverage was way over the top, 
and again proved that little or no real journalism is being practiced 
by broadcasters. I do not wish to hear for the 405th time what *could 
be* the cause of death. We'll find out in due course. The endless 
speculation of what happened and who was responsible is ... 
irresponsible. But I digress.)

I'm talking about the typical way radio used to react to the death of 
a major artist.