[BC] Station Rules compliance (via AOL Webmail)

[Robert Meuser]

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 02/26/2007 08:09:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, Robertm at broadcast.net writes:
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>>know of a daytime station operating 24/7 over power all the time on a 
>> clear channel in the same state as the assigned class A station. 
>> Everyone thinks they a licensed that way and apparently no one including 
>> the class A really cares.  I could easily document this and turn them 
>> in. It would immensely help a friend who owns a competing station but 
>> even he thinks that is small minded and counterproductive in the long 
>> run. Don't get your shorts in a knot over something that goes over most 
>> people's head.
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>They most certainly deserve to be turned in. If the Class A doesn't care, then that's that, I suppose... but the infraction should not be allowed to continue. It's like saying that I can run any stopsign or light I encounter, as long as I don't see any Cops... or reach into an open car and help myself to whatever is on the seat... Foolishness.
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Well maybe you live in a special world. Most people I know do run stop 
signs and red lights if there are no cops, especially NYC cabbies who I 
thank immensely because it saves me money. I also assume if I leave my 
car open anything inside is fair game. I further assume if I leave my 
car locked and something desirable is visible, I will find my windows 
broken and that item gone. Past life experience has taught me that so I 
don't offer the opportunity. Same goes for women who astoundingly leave 
their purses unattended in a restaurant or bar.

>I cannot imagine why this friend thinks it "small minded" to stop someone from flagrantly, blatantly violating the Rules- IE:Breaking the Law.
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Because he is a practical business man not the morals police.

> If he was a shop-owner who had a certain customer who regular "lifted" things, I would imagine he'd want that person stopped and prosecuted. That station is doing something similar by operating illegally.
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Trust me, he has other ways to handle such things should he choose. 
Prosecution is too protracted and too timid. There are better more 
direct ways to deal with such problems. Who knows, maybe one day that 
offending station might find it's towers (after they were documented as 
unsafe) might all end up collapsed on the TX building or ATU huts after 
a convenient snow storm :-)

R

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