[BC] Harris Corp. Seeks Cuts in Transmitter Business

[Douglas B. Pritchett]

They never learn. The man I used to write jingles for had a similar 
situation with a local Mercedez dealer. Totally ignored. It wasn't his 
clothes - he wore a suit. It was the fact that he drove onto the lot in 
a Ford Maverick. Then he drove to Indianapolis, found a car he liked, 
paid $78,000 (Amex card) and as he was leaving, the manager asked why he 
had come all the way to Indy when Mercedez had a dealership in Fort 
Wayne.  Jingle guy told him why. Not sure if there's a connection, but 
the dealership had another person's name on it about 12 months later........

-- 
Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN (really, don't laugh)
wbzq1300 at verizon.net


Thomas G. Osenkowsky wrote:

>I do not intend to intervene in this discussion, but rather to comment
>solely on the above. At an NAB one year long ago (Las Vegas) I
>was talking to my Harris DSM. There was a UNLV student who just
>asked him for a quotation for an FM transmitter/antenna as part of a
>class project. He was barefoot, hippie garb, etc. The DSM scoffed
>at that but had a boiler-plate prepared quote for such requests. I told
>the DSM that one day that hippie might be a customer.
>
>Some years later, I called the DSM as I was planning a $250K AM
>upgrade package. He told me he needed to apologize to me. I asked
>what for? That hippie was now Director of Communications for a major
>University based in NJ. He was buying an FM upgrade for the University
>FM station. Transmitter, antenna, transmission line, etc.
>
>Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE
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