[BC] True Confessions (Cowboy)

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In a message dated 07/09/2006 2:11:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
brew at theMode.com writes:

> In my experience the engineers of competing stations tend to work
>  together, not cheat each other unfairly.  They even lend parts back and
>  forth in emergencies, etc.  Sometimes even the PDs and salesmen work
>  together, especially if the stations aren't head to head competitors.
>  
>  And in the long run that's best for everybody.

This is my experience, as well. We have a very good working relationship with 
the Engineer of a station in the next town. His station is part of a big 
group, so he hasn't needed our help, but he's always been there when we needed 
him. Our formats are quite different, so there's no competition there.

Our sister station in Maine has a cooperative relationship with another 
nearby station, and they often work together to promote concerts, etc. Although 
both are a Christian format, our station is 95% talk, theirs is 95% music... so 
instead of being "competitors", they are compliments of one another. They work 
together to reach an even larger audience. That's always a good thing.

As for "never" cheating or bending the Rules... I don't think a single one of 
us can, truthfully, say this. There's always *something*, somewhere... we may 
kick the TX on for a few seconds to check a reading, then drop it without an 
ID for example...  or some other such innocuous Rule-breaking. Also, how many 
of us have *never* briefly had an "experimental" transmitter on the air that 
was just a tad above P15 limits? (Especially in our wild youth??) It almost 
seems to be a "rite of passage" into B'casting, (especially Engineering) no? ;)

Willie...