RE: WCLV-FM Cleveland Makes Frequency Switch and Courageously Accepts Criticism

["Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@mindspring.com>]

For what it's worth, if you go to the WCLV on-line discussion forum, and
read the Thread 'Classical Music on The Radio in Cleveland', one of the
owners of WCLV (Robert Conrad) gives a detailed justification for making the
station swtich.

I kind of agree with you, however, that the partners saw an opportunity to
cash out big time, so they did.

I keep wondering if the current economic slowdown continues, how it will
affect all these radio station buyouts and what not. Sooner or later the
slowing economy will hit home in the radio industry, if it hasn't already.
As you well know the print media has already been hit very hard by the
slowdown, witness the major downsizing at the Boston Globe, for example.

73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)

P.S. When I spell checked the above post, the Microsoft Spell check (I'm
using Outlook) suggested that 'WCLV' be changed to WELD!!
Wasn't he the former governor of Massachusetts? :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Dan
Billings
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 1:16 AM
To: A. Joseph Ross
Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: WCLV-FM Cleveland Makes Frequency Switch and Courageously
Accepts Criticism


If other posters are correct, the station is not corporately owned.  So this
is another example of one of those vaunted local owners that so many of you
love cashing in.  Such sales are not forced, the owners voluntarily take the
money and run.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine