[BC] Now I know why they overbid so much in the FCC auctions!

[Chuck Lakaytis]

For several years I worked for Ingstad Broadcasting and Kanza Society 
Public Broadcasting in Garden City, KS.  I was and am still amazed that 
anyone thinks they can make money off propeties like this!  Those M&P 
(mom and pop) operations were money sinks back then! 

Kanz-FM did have a translator licensed to Tractor, KS.  In fact it was 
used as a relay to another translator.  Tractor at one time was a 
company town for the tractor testing station of International Harvester.

Dana Puopolo wrote:
> I was thinking the same thing...it's an interesting question, isn't it?
>
> Let me tell you about one of the CP's they bought at auction: Ness City, KS.
> For over TWELVE YEARS, the Ness City allotment was a 'first come, first serve'
> allotment. This means that the first application filed for it got it. The
> reason was because a filing window had opened and closed with no one wanting
> it. So during this 12 plus years, no one wanted this station, because Ness
> City is literally in the middle of nowhere.
>   

-- 
Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
135 Cordova Street
Anchorage, Ak 99501