Re: Local radio works...

[Dib9@aol.com]

My former employer, WMGX, is corporate owned and does a great deal for local 
charities.  They hold a huge food drive every year, have done numerous 
radiothons for local causes, and give thousands in free promotion for local 
charitable events every year.  On the TV side, both WCSH and WGME, now 
corporately owned, have continued the stations' traditions of strong support 
for local causes.  

Let's get by this oversimplification of corporate=bad, local=good.  I have 
worked for local, small time station owners that were cheap sobs interested 
in nothing more than putting as much in their pocket as possible and there 
are corporate owners who realize that giving back to the community is good 
business and the right thing to do.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

In a message dated 12/18/99 3:00:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Chuckigo@aol.com writes:

<< it's unusual for any station to give up any amount of airtime for a worthy 
cause, let alone 9 hours.  and if i may echo  the sentiments of Sean, you do 
us all proud by not only doing what you do, but caring about it at the same 
time.  the local radio stations are, by and large, falling by the wayside to 
corporate ownership, as we all know, far too well. >>