Interesting story about RadioDisney

[SueM in MN]

A court agreed that RadioDisney was "all ears" in some dealings with a former partner, Radio AAHS. Disney listened a little too well and was found to have stolen secrets of children's radio from Radio AAHS.
Story in Minneapolis newspaper.

 

[Janet2k]

Thanks for the link. The only children's radio that my kids listen to is Radio Disney. I was unaware of the lawsuit.

 

[SueM in MN]

It's probably not big news outside of the Twin Cities area. The Radio AAHS flagship station was here when we moved here in 1991. I think they had between 4 and 6 affiliates throughout the country. My kids listened to Radio AAHS all the time and were pretty exited when a partnership with Disney was announced. Then all of a sudden, instead of being more involved, Disney started their own kid's radio network.

 

[SueM in MN]

After I thought about it, I remembered more than 4 or 5 affiliates of Radio AAHS, so I looked up on google.com and found the Radio AAHS company actually owned 13 radio stations and they operated 17 others as Radio AAHS affiliates, for a total of 30 stations.
Here's link to a story in Business Week from after the original trial.