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

[Bob, W4WSZ]

Every day that goes by I realize I made to right decision to sell my KW 
Daytime operation
in the 70's and stay with the engineering side of the industry........."it 
aint what it used to be"

de Bob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Ring" <w3nu at roadrunner.com>
To: "Bill Guyger" <bguyger at yahoo.com>
Cc: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Non Commercial, non Ham AM Radio station?


> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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........
>>
>> Bill AD5OL
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>
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