RE: More on WIDE sale

["sid.javanet@rcn.com" <sid.javanet@rcn.com>]

Other factors to be considered...downtown Biddeford, with lots of empty
storefronts, check cashing outfits, and cigarette shops. Not exactly the
kinds of retailers who support local radio. But is there an AM graveyarder
out there anywhere that's making enough money as a stand-alone?
I highly doubt it. Seems you could argue a combination of several factors
has done in lots of AM graveyarders, including WIDE. Even WPOR (1490) a
graveyarder in Portland, part of the Saga group, would have a hard time
surviving as a stand-alone these days. From what I'm told, Saga runs WPOR
profitably (more so with the demise of MOYL in favor of news/talk on the
former WLAM 870).

Sid Whitaker



Original Message:
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From: Dan Billings billings@suscom-maine.net
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:56:02 -0400
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
Subject: More on WIDE sale


The Portland Press Herald had a small story on the WIDE sale.  Former owner
Bart Bailey said that WIDE had struggled in the face of declining ad
revenues.  "People don't listen to local radio like they may have at one
time," Bailey said.

It is easy to blame the big corporations for the lose of local radio, but
here is a case of local owners trying to make it and selling out because the
community did not support the station.  So who is really to blame?

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine



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