Stable position...was Re: [BC] Rama Communications Buys ARadio Station

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

You always make me chuckle when I read your emails Terry!:)

PW


On 2/4/06, Keith Hammond <monsterfm at monsterfm.com> wrote:
>
> Mike McCarthy wrote:
>
> > >Granted, while engineers don't go through the revolving doors
> anywhere
> > >nearly as often as any one else on a staff, it does occur.  I can
> think
> > of
> > >only one other position within a station which can be just as stable
> as
> > >the engineers.  Anyone care to venture a guess?  I know people who
> make
> > >careers of this position at one station/cluster.
>
>
>
>  It's certainly not owners. At one of the last corporate groups that I
> worked for, we went through a foreclosure and two owners during the six
> months before the new owners decided to let the crew from "existing
> stations" handle everything.
>
>  The last true "independent" station I engineered is now a Wal-Mart
> Supercenter! Believe it or not, the property owner claims to have
> generated substantially more money by selling the TX site to Wal-Mart.
>
>  These two experiences are what pushed me into ownership. I figure
> that, if I have to fire myself, I must be getting pretty bad! On the
> other hand, I keep having trouble coming up with my retainer!
>
>
> Keith Hammond
> KBKH-FM
> Shamrock, Texas
>
>
>
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