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If Countrywide gets less than 75% of the vote, I'll be quite surprised. Clear Channel sucks but is mostly irrelevant, and Countrywide was a major player in destroying the economy.
If Countrywide gets less than 75% of the vote, I'll be quite surprised. Clear Channel sucks but is mostly irrelevant, and Countrywide was a major player in destroying the economy.
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I can't even begin to imagine what Clear Channel had to beat in order to make it this far.
C'mon, now, this should have been a semi-final matchup, if not final.
Clear Channel killed FM radio. Countrywide, along with several others, killed the American economy. As much as I hate Clear Channel, I have to give the nod to Countrywide.
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@B: I wouldnt say irrelevant considering so many people still listen to the radio on their way to work and such (and you can't avoid it when you walk into some stores). But DEF the lesser of two evils. It's it's not Countrywide by a landslide, I'll be shocked.
Clear Channel sounds like a shill of a company. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a hand in turning The Zone (94.7 FM) in Chicagoland into an oldies cesspool.
Countrywide still wins this contest easily, though. Playing financial games with people's lives is just wrong. I'll be pulling my money out of their coffers as soon as I find a better interest rate.
Countrywide. Period.
How many junk mailers & phone calls will they send to me, asking me to re-fi my 5.25%, fixed-rate?
Countrywide hands down for all the reasons above.
I wonder - does CC own XM or Sirius? It would make since as it truly appears they have been the major driving force in killing FM and driving people to actually be willing to pay money to listen to Stern.
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As much as I hate Clear Channel, Countrywide is the front runner this year.
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I agree with the other posters. Clear Channel absolutely has killed radio broadcasting in practically every market with their ever-increasing advertising and ever-decreasing variety in broadcasting and genre. They're pretty much the reason I do satellite only or my MP3's.
That said, Countrywide has crushed the dreams of practically every new homeowner for the next ten years by realizing the questionable \"dreams\" for those of the last four or five.
It sucks these two had to go head-to-head like this.
I used to work in radio and now I work in the financial sector, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.
Countrywide. Clear Channel is having enough issues on their own, so they are reaping what they sown. And as noted, if you don't like Clear Channel's product, you have options.
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I'd say Countrywide-they do more long-term damage to more people. Since I'm in my 20s and not in the market for a house, though, I get more irritated by CC on a daily basis. My iPod dock broke, and I really just need to buy a new dock or a new damn iPod. The radio was OK for a few weeks, but now it's the same shit over and over and over and over and over and over. I'm getting close to yelling at the radio again. And the \"breast enhancement\" commercial? Fuck off. When \"Love Song\" and \"Paralyzer\" can drive you to consider violence, it's time to turn the damn thing off.
Then the other day they had a \"request\" from someone who \"wanted to hear some Daughtry.\" I felt like calling them up and screaming \"Does this request person never ever listen to your fuckin station? All you play is Daughtry!\"
Reading what I wrote, I'm heading over to Apple's Web site now...
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While ClearChannel deserves every bit of derision it gets for single-handedly destroying a sizable chunk of American culture (FM radio), that pales in significance to what Countrywide has done. Fuck up my favorite radio station - shame on you, but I an MP3-compatible stereo. Fuck up the economy - you should be burned at the stake for that.
If there's a silver lining in all of this, it's that this whole idea of hands-off non-governance that got us in this mess has been discredited once and for all. Hopefully, the Obama administration will have a chance to start fixing both the broadcast media and the banking industry (and lots of other stuff) next year.
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Countrywide has ruined thousands of families. Clear Channel has only ruined 1 outlet for music - and that is replaceable by several other methods (iPod, Satellite, CD)
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@Disturbedearth: CC used to own about 10% of XM stock, but supposedly they've completely sold it off. They're now channeling their efforts into getting the Association of American Broadcasters to slip money to congress to prevent Sirius and XM from merging.
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Clear Channel is terrible.
Countrywide is actually a really good loan servicer, and originator, but have become (fair or not) the face of the subprime crisis.
Clear Channel should win, but won't. But I am fine with the vote, as it isn't the travesty the AAA vs Comcast vote was (with the late vote swing, and the glavin!).
As long as Best Buy or BofA wins it all, I will be happy.
I wanted you to win so bad Clear Channel, but alas, not even you can stand up to Countrywide. Maybe next year Clear Channel, as I know you will not stop driving radio even further into the abyss. Until next year...
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clear channel is ruining all media outlets. Now that takes talent.
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Doesn't BOA own countrywide? I'm voting Clear Channel in that case. My vote for BOA in the next round will represent countrywide too.
If they were their own entity still, i'd vote for them right in this poll.
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Wretched radio over screwing over home owners?
Country wide.
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I can (and did) stop listening to the radio.
It's really hard to stop needing a place to live.
Clear Channel is the a result of what politicians caused. Countrywide had a clear choice, and could still be doing better (pun intended).
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Countrywide is officially my pick to win this whole competition.