[BC] The Mom and Pop Store

[KKTY]

Dana, my point was that in the same free market system that will eventually
allow me to sell my stations for whatever the market will bear, these yahoos
are also allowed to buy and sell licenses for whatever the market will bear.

What angers me perhaps the most is that the guys I've watched in action seem
to make a whole lot more money buying, moving and selling licenses than I'll
EVER make running a radio station, doing what I love, and yes, Serving My
Community.

I seem to recall that you worked hard to go through the process and get an
allocation dropped in. I'd be angry, too, if I had to sit and watch "my"
allocation go through the stupid auction process. Kinda like watching your
kid get sold off to the highest bidder, eh?

If I haven't made myself clear, I HATE the auction system. It completely
discourages local ownership for small market stations, and simply makes a
commodity of broadcast licenses, and encourages a system that shuts out
hands-on broadcasters like you and I and many of us on this list.

Part of the reason that Wyoming had so many allocations in both auctions was
that several years ago, several players got into allocation wars... one
would propose an allocation, another would counter-propose first service in
another community to block the first, then there'd be another proposal to
satisfy the counter. The FCC, of course, said that if it fit from a tech
standpoint, they'd throw them all on the list. In the end, a bunch of
overpriced CP's were sold, and if they get built, they'll broadcast to a
whole lotta sagebrush and antelope. And they'll slice up my already very
rural market into even thinner slices. Because, you know what? The FCC
didn't send out any new listeners with all those new CP's.

Guess I'm in the wrong business...


Dennis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DANA PUOPOLO"
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] The Mom and Pop Store


Nothing wrong with that?
There's PLENTY wrong with that, Dennis!
See, the PUBLIC airwaves are supposed to be a PUBLIC resource!!
and a limited one at that! There are only so many!

I find PLENTY wrong with Congress and the FCC allowing (ne' ENCOURAGING) the
STRIP MINING of this limited public resource!

I suppose that next, it'll be okay for them to drill oil wells in the middle
of every National Park!

After all, it's a free country...

RIGHT???!!!

-D