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NEW YORK With several country music stars committed to testify before the Federal Communications Commission during next week’s field hearing in Nashville on media ownership, the agency might feel as if it’s on the Grand Ole Opry instead of the campus of Belmont University.
Porter Wagoner, George Jones, Dobie Gray, Naomi Judd and Craig Wiseman are among the music impresarios that have tentatively agreed to testify Monday, according to entertainment industry officials.
Musicians, songwriters, actors and others who owe much of their livelihood to radio and television fear that allowing the ownership universe to contract will undercut their ability to get airplay, said Rick Carnes, president of the Songwriters Guild of America.
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