Few points about the article. 1. Currently the Radio FM channels are running to the government for help in cost reduction. This is fine. But the same government when it starts imposing restrictions on content, these same channels will cry foul about loss of independence. So they need to decide if they need the government or NOT. You cant have it both ways. 2. Content has a cost. If FM channels find content from Yash Raj films or T Series too high, they are full liberty to avoid buying from them. After all this is a free market we are operating in, especially with the entertainment industry. We are not talking about atta, dal type of issues, to be subsidizing some one. 3. One of the FM channel owners from some remote village in North said that he can not be expected to pay the same rate as the channel in Mumbai. This is a valid arguement but taking this forward, does it mean that he will pay a different rate for a Anand-Miling ((&&^%) music and a AR Rahman music. If content providers start differentiating based on the every parameter, then how will they survive. 4. "Radio is the voice of the poor": I am surprised. We are not talking about AIR. We are talking about FM channels who dont do any public service broadcasting but are purely for entertainment purpose.
