Re: Upton Bell Firing Article

["Terrence M. Wood" <terry_wood@prodigy.net>]

Is this what radio is going to come to, you want to be on the radio, you
sell the time and pay the ownership a rental fee for the time your on the
air?  If so, all we will have is infomercials such as is on channel 60.
This is a sorry state to come to, and the only way to correct it is to
review the communications act again and go back to a certain amount of
ownership in a market, like no more then 2 AMs, 2FMs and 1 TV per market.
This will put local back into the relm of radio once again.  Will it be
profitable to those corporations that have bought everything is sight?
Maybe, maybe not, that is the gamble they took, but it will return radio to
a local outlook, rather than a corporate outlook and the locals be damned
attitude by the BIG corporations in this arena of broadcasting.


- -----Original Message-----
From: Shel <shel@lotsofun.com>
To: Roger Kirk <rkirk@videoserver.com>; Michael D. Malone
<wdoa@ma.ultranet.com>; boston-radio-interest
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Friday, August 21, 1998 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Upton Bell Firing Article


>
>>Extraordinarily well written.  Struck a nerve.
>>Now, excuse me while I wipe away the tears.
>>
>>Roger Kirk
>
>
>Do I hear violins?  I am sympathetic to Upton, but having read the
newspaper
>article, it is obvious that he has become jaded over the years.  If indeed
>his talent and experience is marketable, and if he has the gift of
>entrepreneurship, he should be able to sell the show and make more money
>than he had been paid before.
>
>A lot of today's radio "stars" who think they're greater than God will have
>to re-think that opinion as consolidation continues.  You play....you pay.
>
>my humble opinion....shel
>
>"The views expressed here ARE those of the writer, for which I accept full
>responsibility."
>

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