i support pnoy's radio airplay quota
this article's been popping up on my facebook feed repeatedly the past few days, to pretty much unanimous discontent. at the heart of the matter is executive order 255, which states: "all radio stations shall broadcast a minimum of four original [F]ilipino musical compositions in every clockhour of a program with a musical format." or to put it another way, stations have to allot about a quarter of every hour of airplay to local music. which, if you think about it, is pretty reasonable. TV ads get more airtime than that. so why all the negative comments? 1.) anything pnoy does is wrong. i'm not qualified to talk about that. 2.) i'll listen to what i want! no one's forcing anyone to listen to anything. they're forcing the station to play OPM one quarter of the time, thereby giving local artists more exposure (and/or royalties?), which hopefully leads to more income. is that so bad? the rest of us remain free to change the station, or pop ...