[BC] Destroying history

[Gary Peterson]

"  I worked at a daytimer once that had all the old jingles from the 40's
and 50's on reel to reel tape and file cabinets full of old photos of their
air talent and the write ups about how wonderful they were for sales use.
The new owner came in and burned everything up.  That's more tragic than a
fire to the transmitter.  Some people have no nostalgia in their bones.
Nostalgic Bob "

I'm not certain what emotion prompts the destruction of historical material,
but I have seen new owners do everything possible to eradicate *any*
material relating to previous ownership, call letters, formats, etc.  I
suspect some are neat freaks and throw anything for which they don't see an
immediate use.  Maybe some don't feel they have storage space.  And...some
probably never want to be in the position of being compared to a much more
successful predecessor.  I guess I could understand it if the previous
licensee and the station had a really sordid past.

A friend worked as an EE for a large corporation (let's call it Oldcorp).
It was acquired by another large corporation (Newcorp) that was,
essentially, in the same business.  Newcorp immediately closed the company
store, where one could buy jackets, sweatshirts, hats, coffee cups, beer
steins, etc., with the Oldcorp logo.  Newcorp refused to allow anyone to
obtain any of this at *any* price.  It was all destroyed.  My friend told me
that anything with the Oldcorp logo was destroyed.  They replaced thousands
of perfectly good ringbinders in the technical archives because they sported
the Oldcorp logo.  Newcorp did purchase the rights to the Oldcorp logo, so
that wasn't an issue.  Seems like there are better ways to spend time and
money at the stockholder's expense.  But that's just little ol' me.

Gary, K?CX