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

[Robert Meuser]

They sold because???

R

DANA PUOPOLO wrote:
> Actually, these stations are flush with ca$h! They bill a ton of $$.
> 
> -D
> 
> 
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:14:15 AM PST
> From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Subject: Re: [BC] Mom & Pop Stations Going the Way of the Dodo (was Re:
> TheEmployment Issue)
> 
> 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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>>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 1:50 PM
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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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