Fwd: Re: goodbye to 2002

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

DATE: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:40:18
From: "Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>
To: <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>, <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>,Donna Halper  <dlh@donnahalper.com>

>If only 78% of the members of the NAB believe radio is doing a good job, 
>then radio is in BIG TROUBLE.

Hmmm...what percentage of NAB member stations are Clear 
Channel-owned?  Might it be 12%?  :-)
____________________________________________
Aaron "Bishop" Read     aread@speakeasy.net
FriedBagels Technical Consulting / Boston, MA
www.friedbagels.com   AOL-IM: ReadAar

Never mind what percentage of the total amount of stations CCU owns...
it's the percentage of the population that lives within the coverage
areas of their stations that matters...much more than 12 per cent.
Lowry Mays (what you call corn) or his son(?) was a guest on the PBS
"Wall $treet Week with Fortune" this past weekend, and he uttered the
bromide that they only own about a tenth of the nation's radio stations.
He didn't reveal that in a mid-size market, or even larger ones, they 
own one or two of the 50,000-watt AM blowtorches; 5 or 6 full-power FM's
and maybe a 6kw rim-shotter or two.  That leaves a few other full-power
signals for Viacom, Entercom, etc...then the little guys are left with
let's say a 5000 watts days/1000 watts night DA-2 operation, usually
bird-fed MOYL, Talk-America.  And of course CCU's Premiere syndicates
Rush and the faux-Doctor.

Laurence Glavin



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