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[Roger Kirk <rkirk@VideoServer.com>]

Brian Vita wrote:
>>The management of the NYT has a fiduciary responsibility 
>>to its shareholders to achieve the best return on their investment.

Dan Billings concurred:
>Brilliant post.  I couldn't agree more.  Radio is, and always has been, a
>business, not art.

The original concept was supposed to be:
Radio is a Public Service.  In order to provide public service,
it must be a profitable business.  That is, the profit helps 
provide public service.  Somewhere along the way, something's
been lost.

If you view radio strictly as a business and nothing else - then I
submit that the Government should tax the licenses and allow 
station owners to pay for the "limited' resources they are using 
to make money.  After all, shouldn't the Government give me,
the taxpayer, the best possible financial return on my share of
the public's collectively-owned resources?

RogerKirk@usa.net

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