[BC] Radio engineering not a profession - 50 kW Vs. 2 Watts

[Jerry Mathis]

On 5/2/08, nakayle at gmail.com <nakayle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com> wrote:
>
>
> The sad thing is that there are probably hundreds of small town managers
> like this now with little knowledge or regard for FCC R&R.  At least in
> the
> old days when you had someone with hard-earned blue-paper hanging on the
> wall, you had someone who's first priority was seeing to it  that the
> station operated in a legal and technicality competent manor. And back
> then
> managers had respect for engineers and didn't consider them just appliance
> repairmen you call in when your radio station is broke.
>
> - Nat Kayle
>


What this all REALLY goes back to is the change in mindset that broadcasting
is ONLY a BUSINESS to make money, and no longer a public trust/public
service in the public interest.

-- 
Jerry Mathis