[BC] Small market attitudes

[Barry Mishkind]

At 07:29 PM 2/14/2006, Radiofldude at aol.com wrote
>I definately agree with you, they don't like outsiders. Not only can Larry
>agree from his own expieriences Im sure, but I've also shared some of my
>WQMA/WROX Stories with him. I could write a small book on the 
>oddities, careless
>and stupidity of people involved.

         This is common to small markets virtually
         anywhere.  You can be a "furriner" in
         New England, in Washington State, in
         Arizona, virtually anywhere.

         Part of the problem is the whole
         industry grabbed at "cost reduction"
         and many stations do sound stale and
         "programmed from Dallas."  However,
         there are stations that do "superserve"
         their community, even when it is not easy.

         Trouble is ... there is about as much support
         for those owners at the NAB as there is
         for engineers.