Re: good Phoenix article

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tony schinella" <radiotony@attbi.com>
To: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>;
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; "Aaron Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: good Phoenix article


> I don't think the point is whether a station has "near-zero listeners," as
> much as whether or not people have the opportunity to broadcast. Or, more
to
> the point, the opportunity to broadcast without extreme regulation over
what
> a broadcaster would like to do on the air. Is doing a bi-weekly show on
> freeform music show on near-zero listener WMFO a waste of my time? Maybe.
> No, if it means I wouldn't get to broadcast at all. Yes, if there were
other
> opportunities where people could broadcast on larger stations without
> worrying about demographics, playing the same five songs over and over
> again, etc.

The use of the airwaves is supposed to serve the public interest.  I don't
see how anyone can be serving the public interest if no one is listening.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine