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Article #192Re: Update on KCSM-TV
From: John Higdon
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:07
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:07
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In article <aj96g8Fiq8vU1@mid.individual.net>, Mark Roberts <markrobt+usenet@gmail.com> wrote: > I wonder what standing Media Alliance even has. It seems to be a bunch of > busybodies. The Commission has been pretty clear about wanting to turn > spectrum over to mobile uses; the college is willing; it seems all the > Media Alliance will do is enrich some lawyers. The college clearly > doesn't want to keep subsidizing the TV station and, nice as MHz is (and > it is), that seems a pretty slim thread for keeping the station going. This reminds me of the heyday of FCC complaints and license challenging back in the seventies. It was not uncommon for prospective purchasers and new licensees to consider the consequences of trying to extricate themselves from any given station. It is no secret that Lorenzo, Jeremy and their group (of which I was a part) bought KSND (Gilroy) with the intent of changing it from a class A station that could be heard nowhere to a class B that could be heard in much of the Bay Area. The major consideration in the group's meetings, and what gave rise to the legendary ersatz format (originally called "progressive country") was ensuring that NO ONE would care if the station changed hands after the value increased from the facilities change and the three-year waiting period had elapsed. As history reminds us, the exercise turned out to be "The Producers", radio edition when listeners came out of the woodwork to protest the sale of this "unique" radio station that had so many followers. Salvation came to the owners when the buyer, Harvey Levin, swore that he would make no changes in the station's format or programming after the sale. (Harvey was true to his word, but passed away shortly after the sale and his estate unloaded it to a corporate owner who installed archtypical programming immediately thereafter.) -- John Higdon +1 775 253 3838
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From: John Higdon <higgy@kome.com>
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Subject: Re: Update on KCSM-TV
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:07:37 EST
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