[AMRadio] Non Commercial, non Ham AM Radio station?

[Bill Guyger]

The Clear Channel's and the Cumulus's are the rule, even though they are BOTH effectively owned by Bain Capital and a couple of other money lenders.

But......one of the guys who worked with me bought an AM and FM over in Greenville TX. (With the help of a couple of investors). He's barely making it, but it is possible.

Bill AD5OL

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On Aug 4, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Charles Ring <w3nu at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Time was that you had to be well off to own a broadcast station. Now it's almost entirely limited to a few monster corporations. Many school stations have been bought up by national "religious" outfits that feed the same canned eternal begathons to all their stations. Public interest, though still in the rules, has been lawyered into a very bad joke.
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> On 8/4/2013 1851, Bill Guyger wrote:
>> Yeah, what he said about hours of operation. The FCC doesn't care if you make a profit or not, they just take the view that stations are there to serve the public interest and if they grant you a license you better be able
>> to demonstrate that you are by having a public affairs / issues section in the public file that you are required to maintain. You also have to provide proof of compliance with EEOC laws and ownership forms etc. etc. etc. and have to have I believe, at least two employees with real salaries.
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>> There's just a whole lot of details that make owning and operating a station a pain in the nether regions. For example, you can be busted big time for not making the afore mentioned Public File available on short notice to anyone who walks in the door and asks to see it........
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