Re: RUSH INKS $285M DEAL

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

That idea is based on a couple of assumptions:

1.  That the show does not already produce enough income to justify the
contract.
2.  That stations will drop the show if programs costs increase.  It may be
that the show is so valuable to local affiliates that they will pay the
added cost.

Even if you are correct, in most markets, the show will just end up on
another station in the market, as has been the case almost universally when
stations have dropped Rush in the past.  When you consider that Clear
Channel has stations in most markets, that is even more likely to happen
now.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: "Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>
Cc: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; "Joseph Pappalardo"
<joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: RUSH INKS $285M DEAL


> Because Rush's syndicator will presumably be increasing the cost of
> the program in reflection of the host's new contract.
>
> -GAWollman