NOT....Re: [BC] Clear Channel Wants More?

[Mike Gideon]

Gee Rich. Pretty poisonous stuff. After that, I'm gonna have to find out why 
you got so many bugs up your ass over CC.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: NOT....Re: [BC] Clear Channel Wants More?


> ------ At 11:56 AM 10/5/2005, Mike Gideon wrote: -------
>
>>It's always a big conspiracy.
>
> How is a truly level playing field a conspiracy? If new services have to 
> pay for spectrum why shouldn't we? We still have the vast majority of 
> listeners and viewers, yet we're not confident enough that we can out 
> program the new kids on the block without big daddy slapping them down and 
> holding us by the hand..
>
> I was astounded to hear the largest radio company in the industry attempt 
> to grab for more because of a cyclical downturn in revenue which may not 
> even be related to broadcasting. I don't recall Infinity begging for more. 
> ABC was silent. Not a peep from Entercom. Gargantua International needs 
> more. Why? To better serve the community? You mentioned  being "real" 
> broadcasters during the hurricanes. How many fully staffed news 
> departments do you have on the Gulf Coast, or, did you take WWL's feed and 
> offer them a studio under the condition you get credit under "United 
> Stations of New Orleans?"
>
> Frankly, WWL is the area's crisis station. It's my understanding WWL 
> didn't go off the air, just reduced power to save fuel. Yours did. You 
> could have stayed off the air and the result would have been the same. A 
> voicetracked music station with a minute or two of FOX news at the top of 
> the hour isn't my idea of a community asset. It's cheap, which leads me to 
> wonder why the company is in financial trouble. 9/11 was similar. WINS, 
> WCBS and WOR all did local wall-to-wall. Music stations took TV network 
> audio. Are your Gulf Coast stations back up and running with their music 
> formats or are you providing continuing coverage with real journalists? 
> Lots of people still need lots of help. I'm sure a gaggle of voicetracked 
> disk jockeys hundreds of miles away are truly qualified to do that, 
> especially the shock jocks. Perhaps they're all running Rush Limbaugh 
> blaming Bill Clinton.
>
> If Gargantua International can't make it, how are all the small groups 
> surviving? Why don't I hear Ed Christian at Saga begging for more? Also, 
> no one has answered my question about what constitutes a market of 60 
> stations. Is it 60 receivable signals from anywhere or is it 60 stations 
> licensed to the metro? What if the MSA and TSA are the same?
>
> It's going to take a lot more than a cell phone with video to make me 
> believe the nation needs hundreds more Clear Channel stations. The folks 
> in Minot might feel the same.
>
> Rich
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