{"id":37,"date":"2010-07-07T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T15:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2010-07-07T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T15:14:35","slug":"time-for-local-music-quotas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Time for local music quotas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/general\/2010\/07\/07\/make-local-music-radio-must\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\" target=\"_blank\">Trinidad &amp; Tobago Guardian<\/a><\/em>, in which PanTrinbago makes a call for radio stations to have quotas for local music. Lots and lots of people have made this request before. Maybe this time, new government and all, we&#8217;ll get what we want?<\/p>\n<p>And while they&#8217;re at it, make some local TV quotas too! It&#8217;s insane for a TV producer to spend thousands of dollars on a programme only to have to BUY airtime from TV stations to air that show. TV stations should pay to air local shows. I feel stupid even having to say that. This back-to-front system helps nobody. Why do they air rubbish like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cougar_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">The Cougar<\/a> <\/em>when perfectly good local TV languishes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this report in the Trinidad &amp; Tobago Guardian, in which PanTrinbago makes a call for radio stations to have quotas for local music. Lots and lots of people have made this request before. Maybe this time, new government and all, we&#8217;ll get what we want? And while they&#8217;re at it, make some local TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25,24,23],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-music","tag-trinidad-tobago","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}