Re: Re:Re:Wired.com on Reversing Consolidation

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:20:05 -0500 "Dan Billings"
<billings@suscom-maine.net> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Faneuf" <tklaundry@juno.com>
> To: <steveord@bit-net.com>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Re:Re:Wired.com on Reversing Consolidation
> 
> > Secondly, if you think local government, or even county government 
> is 3rd
> > district race for dogcatcher then maybe it's been way too long 
> since you
> > heard good local coverage
> 
> Garrett's point is that it doesn't make sense for a station like 
> KISS 108,
> which has a signal that covers a large geographic area, to focus on 
> local
> coverage of the community that it happens to be licensed to.
> 
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

I understand Garrett's point, but the point I have been making is that
allowing the few remaining independents to be absorbed by a same town
newspaper is not a good idea for all the reasons I have stated ad nauseam
df