[BC] Skywave dying

[Robert Meuser]

Scott

I think you will be good for quite a while. The way the band is packed 
around you it is stations similar to yours. I don't see them lighting up 
any time soon.

R


Bailey, Scott wrote:

>I'm going to hang in there as long as I can. Right now, the big boys
>like Lew Dickey, head of Cumulus, with his 1000.00 suit and 200.00
>hairdo, and loves pictures of himself in the trade magazines, can't make
>me do a damn thing. 
>I'm 20 miles from WLAC's and WPLN's site, so up here in town, the
>SHSHSHSHS is not so bad, but I'm afraid it's going to get worse, as the
>co-channel stations at night fire up.
>
>Scott 
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
>[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Douglas B.
>Pritchett
>Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 9:41 AM
>To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [BC] Skywave dying
>
>Really, I think it's over. We're done. The big guys can do what they 
>want, I'll be drowned in the prop wash. I'll be lucky to cover the 
>parking lot - and it ain't that big.  Looking at my 3 tower directional 
>on 6 acres of land. If I scrap the towers, and pull up the copper, sell 
>the xmtrs to a local ham, demo the building and donate the land to the 
>city for a dog park........the revenue and tax write off for the 
>donation.....means I'll have more money than the station is worth. Maybe
>
>I'll take up woodworking for a retirement hobby. AM was fun while it 
>lasted. Now it's been killed by empty suits who regulate an industry 
>they don't understand and could care less about. The big guys will 
>survive because they own the guys in the empty suits. More small 
>communities will be abandonded. We're done I fear. It's been fun while 
>it lasted.
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