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

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:44 am, nakayle at gmail.com wrote:
>  I remember when no-one could own more than seven radio stations.
>  And I thought that was too generous- no one needs SEVEN radio stations!
>  Now how many does Clear-Channel have?  :-(

 Almost, but not quite, as many as *I* want !!
 ( but will likely never have )

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:26 am, Larry Fuss wrote:
>> Those loyal locals must have used the service but not supported it with
>advertising.
>
>The last few times I've been back to Cleveland, Mississippi, people come up
>to me on the street and say "we sure wish you had the radio stations back,
>they are terrible now." 

> You don't know what you've got till it's gone!

 So, when "they charged all the people, a dollar and a half
 just to see 'em" do you think it will have gone far enough at that point ?

 On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:22 am, Robert Meuser wrote:
>It is easy to say that when your interest is affected.

 Funny, how that works !

>I bet your are both one  
>of those easily mislead lead people who put the Bush group into office twice. 
>They certainly do not have the "little man" as a supported interest group. Not 
>sure the other guys did either.

 Considering the choices were "horrible" and "worse" .....
 People tend to stay with the known evil when things get real bad, or are
 perceived that way.
 I suspect the same mentality also put Clinton in, twice.

>But We could do better if collectively we  
>started to think rather then respond to buzz words and coded phrases.

 Real hard to argue that point !

 I'd *like* to say that in both of the above cases the outcome could have
 been different, but then look at what the other choice was.....

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:09 am, Robert Meuser wrote:
>That sounds very socialist to me.

 You and I both, sorta.
 It actually sounds more like a tendency toward self interest at the
 expense of.....

>Broadcasting is a free market enterprise and  
>is at it's best when operating in such a fashion.

 That's certainly been MY experience.

>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.

 While I've been thinking that for some time, every time I read a whine
 about the death knells of the broadcast business we know, I haven't said so
 in public.
 In private I have said that even if this business we all know were to go completely
 away, I'd STILL be out there, tuning diplexers, running proofs, stacking steel, and
 somewhere, still building studios.

>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.

 Sadly, in far too many cases, that has been, and still is, far too true !

-- 
Cowboy

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