[BC] High School Football

[Jerry Mathis]

On 2/24/06, Douglas B. Pritchett <dpritchett1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I can name quite a few. In fact, Phil Alexander and I have experience
> with one station that did quite well doing HS sports. The first few
> stations I worked at full time made  50-75% of their revenue from HS and
> college sports. It just depends on the market, the management, and
> whether or not your local teams had fans and boosters who understood
> what "support" meant. No matter what market level, the art of selling
> can not be ignored.
>
> --
> Douglas B. Pritchett
> Fort Wayne, IN
> dpritchett1 at comcast.net
>
>
> Admittedly, I was in some SMALL towns. In Tennessee, Savannah, Waynesboro,
Linden, Somerville, Dyersburg, Milan, Mount Pleasant. I worked in all those
towns, back mainly in the 70's and 80's and helped in some degree with
remote Engineering. Those were the good (?) old days, when stations had
"courtesy lines" installed at the local gyms and fields, so the stations
from the visiting team's home town didn't have to have a phone line
installed for each game. I became quite adept at "borrowing" phone service
when no lines were provided, or the provided line didn't work. The station
in Linden was really something. The county seat of the smallest county in
the state (population-wise), they had a fiercely loyal following for the
local high school sports, and I helped set up all their away games. I had to
cobble a "sports kit" together, using a standard POTS phone, mixer, and
multiple headphone outputs. It worked surprisingly well, except we got
disconnected a lot on long-distance circuits, whenever the cheering got
loud. I had no filter for the tone frequency phone companies used to use to
signal to disconnect (3.9 kHz?)

Gosh, this brings back memories!


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JM