[BC] Radio stations that buy new equipment...

[Tom]

Hey, as long as it works, reliably and well (NOTE those KEY WORDS!), 
why spend money for bells and whistles you won't use?  Now, if the 
board has 3 good channels left out of ten... time to get a new(er) 
one.  But, otherwise - just to have the latest and greatest?  hard to 
justify.  A new TRANSMITTER, OTOH, CAN and WILL pay for itself fairly 
quickly - in reduced power bills, reduced maintenance overhead...

Tom S.

Thomas G. Osenkowsky wrote:
>Some years ago I performed a due diligence inspection
>on an AM station for a new client. The equipment was
>old, maintained as well as funds allowed. The PD had
>an old 386 computer with the DOS program log software
>which he saved on floppy and walked over to the
>automation system. If either drive failed, no program log.
>
>The telephones were old, desktops all 386's, Audicord
>cart machines, etc. Yes, it was all old by today's standards.
>BUT...the station was on the air and producing revenue.
>There are two sides to eevry story. Would I maintain a
>station I owned in that manner. No, I would not.