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

[Robert Meuser]

Those loyal locals must have used the service but not supported it with advertising.

R

DANA PUOPOLO wrote:
> In Boston, a guy just bought two suburban 1 kW AM's from their longtime owner
> (His dad founded one of the stations and bought the other many decades ago).
> They got $4.5 million for the two. Both have been community stations for over
> 50 years. The new owner plans to move their studios out of their cities of
> license and turn them into a spanish evangelical simulcast.
> 
> Their cities of license and other towns and cities around them are up in arms
> over losing their only local voices. These stations both have been known for
> their fine community service.
> 
> Will someone please explain to me how THIS is in the public interest,
> convienence and necessity?
> 
> -D
> 
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:02:10 AM PST
> From: "Bailey, Scott" <SBailey at nespower.com>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Subject: RE: [BC] Mom & Pop Stations Going the Way of the Dodo (was Re:
> TheEmployment Issue)
> 
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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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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