They may as well call it “The All-Sports and News/Talk Format Assurance Act of 2013”
Start a local bluegrass/folk band. Environmentalist fronts have also been used for many years in many locales to stifle new attempts to compete.
The relationship between the record producers and the radio stations
has a history of shady dealings.
The record producers used to pay the radio stations to give their records air time.
Remember payola?
The business model has changed, and now they want it the other way round, I guess.
These are carbon copies of Nazi tactics in the 1930’s!
On reading the headline, I thought this was an article about taxing bikini waxing.