[BC] WBIX ... and the market

[SteveOrdinetz]

  DANA PUOPOLO wrote:

>The owner of WBIX just installed a new BE transmitter (Grady Moates has posted
>about it here).  He will likely installl IBOC just to 'fight back' at WBZ and
>WILD. In other words, he plans to give them a taste of their own medicine. I
>wonder how WBZ and WILD will feel when hash covers them up in an area where
>half a million people live. I already KNOW how WBIX feels about it!


Well talk about shooting himself in both feet, and one kneecap.  Both 
WBZ and WILD are well-established heritage stations in Boston. WBIX 
(or any other incarnations of 1060) has never had any programming 
worth listening to and it shows...to the best of my knowlege they 
have never even showed up in the ratings..certainly not in recent 
memory.  What's gonna happen when he turns on IBOC and 2 stations 
with audiences get splattered?  Everyone's gonna be cussing some 
^%$&^% Natick station that's interfering with "our" station.  He'd be 
better off turning in the license and taking it dark...that facility 
should never have been built.  It was originally an ego project for 
John Garabedian if I'm not mistaken.