As per request, as a follow-up to my earlier post on FM Radio Ownership, I have put together a small, but powerful pie chart to show just how skewed media ownership really is.

My methodology for this chart was to take all of the information contained in the FCC’s FM Query and plug it into a spreadsheet. As I mentioned, that query was a survey of all FM Radio Licenses (both commercial and non-commercial) within an 80km radius of Miami’s City center. After I plugged all of the data into a spreadsheet, I created this pie chart, which shows the breakdown of license holders by TOTAL Wattage. For example, Clear Channel owns multiple licenses to different radio stations. This pie chart reflects the total power across all of their licenses.

As you can see, two companies absolutely dominate in terms of power. There are a number of other, smaller competitors, but in terms of total power and reach, Cox and Clear Channel are the leaders. When two companies control 50% of the content you hear on the airwaves, imagine everything you are NOT hearing!