[BC] Mom & Pop Stations Going the Way of the Dodo (was Re: TheEmployment Issue)

[Robert Meuser]

That sounds very socialist to me. Broadcasting is a free market enterprise and 
is at it's best when operating in such a fashion. Creative entrepreneurs will 
always find ways to fill a need.  Just as we transitioned from horse drawn power 
to the reciprocating engine, making blacksmiths obsolete in the process, the 
customer will be served with or without an actual transmitter.

Many mom and pop stations have represented the worst in this business. They were 
under financed, unprofessional and technical disasters. Larger companies have 
brought them up to decent standards. There are fewer death trap transmitter sites.

R

Bailey, Scott wrote:
> There needs to be something done about this, and LPAM is NOT THE ANSWER!
> The mega groups buy these AM stations as tax write off investments and
> just set on their tails and do nothing for the community. 
> My comment here will upset some of you here, but mega to smaller groups
> should be forced to sell AM's (1 KW and under) to mom and pop operators!
> I thought about complying a list of these type stations and get other
> small (single owner) broadcaster to file a rule making on this type of
> activity. 
> It would probably get no where, and I would just get laugh at!
> 
> Scott
> 
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> Subject: [BC] Mom & Pop Stations Going the Way of the Dodo (was Re:
> TheEmployment Issue)
> 
>  
> In a message dated 2/6/2006 8:29:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:
>  
> Jeff Johnson, replying to Daniel L. Steele, said...
>  
> 
> So  Rogers City, MI, lost its local station that broadcast local sports
> and  
> supported the community with local news and other programming. The city
> 
> supported the station in like kind. So, unless the corner office types
> want 
> to do enthusiastic local radio, forget it.  Sadness.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------
>  
> This does seem to be an unfortunate trend.  The broadcast industry is  
> essentially being "Wal-Marted."  It seems the days of local mom & pop
> stations are 
> nearing their last days, either being bought up by media  conglomerates
> and 
> mega-networks or being shut down entirely with all assets sold  and
> music 
> collections liquidated or boxed up and collecting dust in someone's
> basement.  As I 
> stated in the subject line, they are going the way of the  dodo.  
>  
> In my travels, I once enjoyed tuning in to local talk radio and
> listening  to 
> the regional farm reports and local music groups.  It's all going  away.
> We 
> are rapidly reaching the point where one can go to any city in  the USA
> and 
> hear the exact same songs played day in and day out so ASCAP and BMI
> can 
> continue making their billions.
>  
> And where will mom and pop be?  Living at the old broadcasters'  home,
> of 
> course!
>  
> Paul Gray, N0JAA
> Satellite Beach, FL
>  
>  
>  
> 
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