Osborn also operates Muzak franchises, entertainment properties and small cable-television systems.
The company now owns 10 FM and eight AM radio stations, a TV station and three Muzak franchises.
His free, airy, impressionist style that turned on hard-core jazzers as well as rock fans is both personal and political, a departure from elevator jazz or what he calls hip Muzak.
Ilona Sekacz's Muzak score amounts to folksong soundbites ('Over the Hills', 'Lillibullero') with more bass and wire brushes than suits the music.