Larry Glick

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 9 Mar 2008 at 10:09, Maureen Carney wrote:

> I thought ABC got a waiver from the FCC to keep Breakfast Club on the
> air for affiliates that still wanted to carry, even though it was on
> borrowed time at that point. That's what I remember reading in
> Sterling Quinlan's "Inside ABC" at least.

The way I understood the waiver, ABC split its radio network into 
four networks.  They got around the old 1940s prohibition against 
operating more than one network by having the different networks' 
programs at different parts of the hour, so that no two shows were on 
simultaneously.  This worked except for Breakfast Club, which had to 
run for the whole hour.  That was what the waiver was for, as I 
recall.

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