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This is Round 47 in our Worst Company in America contest, Countrywide vs Clear Channel!http://s3.polldaddy.com/p/626097.js Which Company Is Worse?
( surveys)Here's what readers said in previous rounds about why they hate these two companies...
This is Round 47 in our Worst Company in America contest, Countrywide vs Clear Channel!Here’s what readers said in previous rounds about why they hate these two companies…
“Countrywide gets my tick for destroying a lot of lives and homes. As far as i’m concerned, they and Citi should burn in a special place in hell made just for them for taking advantage of the deregulation to go hog wild on the mortgage market like that.”
“Countrywide’s involvement in the mortgage meltdown cannot be overlooked though we have been with them for a while and never had an issue. Guess there is something to be said for not being a sub-prime borrower trying to live beyond their means though. 30-year fixed and not overextended…not that hard.”
“What a bunch of scammy scumbags.”
“My only complaints with Countrywide are their unavailability on weekend and their lack of detail on their web site. Sure would be nice to find out things about my HELOC — like due dates.”
“Countrywide is such a huge lender that it has obtained bad loans from second rate mortgage companies that had no business being in the business to begin with.”
“wrecked FM radio”
“Homogenizing radio sucks!”
“Clear Channel is so vile. Every radio station that I’ve enjoyed before it was bought up by them has gone to right to hell — in terms of crappy music and the ads ads ads ads ads. If it weren’t for WEQX, I’d suck it up and subscribe to satellite.”
“As for Clear Channel, gosh, there are so many ways you can hate them even aside from what they’ve done to FM radio. You can hate them for perpetuating the visual blight of billboards across the landscape. You can also hate them for their efforts to dominate the live music venue booking business. They’re not quite as unavoidable as Ticketmaster but they’re obnoxious enough.”
“CC not only wrecked what you hear on the radio, it wrecked it for those of us who work in it. They are the devil. Jocks for that company do a shift live in their home city and then voice track shows that run in smaller markets since CC is to cheap to hire talent. Bastards.”
“They win this hands down just for turning FM radio into a wasteland of screaming, obnoxious car dealer ads, annoying DJs, and homogenized music. They are pretty much single-handedly responsible for the fact that I no longer listen to any radio except NPR (they bought out and destroyed the decent local radio I listened to before).”
“Clear Channel ruined radio, making portable music players move to the forefront for personal music. They grew too fast and look at them now, barely scraping by in the face of declining ad bucks and booming satellite radio. They so rightly deserve to fry.”
“They’ve changed the formats of 3 radio stations I used to listen to down here in Atlanta in the 7 years I’ve been here.”
“Clear Channel has contributed majorly to the uglification of the landscape with their garish and innumerable billboards. Even worse, they’re the ones behind those #$@%ing video billboards. A pox on their thrice-damned house!
And that’s on top of the generic radio they pump out 24/7 across the country. Clear Channel must die! “
“I have XM in the Scion, so I never have to listen to Clear Channel’s crap any more.”
“clearchannel” is a result of media deregulation back in the mid 80’s. they own ALOT of stuff.
i love the list of ‘objectionable’ songs they told their stations to refrain from playing after 9/11
clearchannel killed broadcast radio.. RIP”
“Clear Channel just DESTROYED the Atlanta radio market by wiping out every single station that had been here for 30+ years and filling the air with generic crap.”
“Clear Channel is the worst thing that can happen to any media outlet. They have ruined so many radio and TV stations. Their lips mutter “in the interest of the community” but we all know that’s a big pile of BS.”
“Clear Channel destroyed the radio.”
“Clear Channel should make a ad channel that’s interrupted by actual shows at every 15 and 45 of the hour.”
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