Off the Dial: Minority and Female Station Ownership in the U.S.

Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 2007-09-04 22:52.

The results of this study reveal a dismally low level of minority and female ownership of radio stations in America that has left two-thirds of the U.S. population with few stations representing their communities or serving their needs.

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The results of this study reveal a dismally low level of minority and female ownership of radio stations in America that has left two-thirds of the U.S. population with few stations representing their communities or serving their needs. Racial or ethnic minorities own just 7.7 percent of all full-power commercial broadcast radio stations, though they account for 33 percent of the U.S. population.

Minority Radio Ownership
  • Latinos own just 2.9 percent of all U.S. full-power commercial broadcast radio stations.

  • African-Americans own only 3.4 percent of this country's full-power commercial broadcast radio stations.

  • People of Asian descent own less than 1 percent of full-power commercial broadcast radio stations.

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