[BC] All Sports Stations

[WBRadiolists at aol.com]

In a message dated 05/05/2008 2:14:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
richwood at pobox.com writes:

> I want what you're smoking. That wouldn't work in my market because 
>  of the unreliability if IBUZ secondaries. It also means you have to 
>  hire humans. The audience is simply too small. The Public Radio 
>  approach of giving IBUZ receivers to major donors is the best idea, 
>  yet. Combine it with a Geek Squad division that'll install those 
>  Woodpecker antennas and find advertisers who are willing to accept 
>  tiny audiences for goodwill purposes.

You know I don't smoke. ;) At least, I THINK you do! Well... you do NOW, 
anyway! ;)

The "hire humans" part was what I was talking about with getting the "kids" 
involved. Every high school has it's collection of geeks of various levels. 
>From that pool, it shouldn't be too difficult to get a "crew" together to run the 
games.

Giving radios to major donors would be a good idea... but if *all* of the 
radios truly are as bad as the reports you've gotten, and units you've seen... I 
guess it's a moot point. I think that there has to be at least one reasonably 
useful radio out there... some here have even posted about it. :)

Seriously, though, I am aware of a 5k regional AM that is making IBUZ work... 
for them. They are in the minority, for sure, and I don't know HOW well it's 
working, just that it seems to be "holding its own". (I haven't heard much 
about their HD operations in some time, now.) They did a decent job of educating 
their listeners and making radios available. How long they will be able to 
sustain the whole thing will be an interesting thing to watch.

Willie...




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