Radio And Tower Industry Consolidator Steve Dodge Dead At 73. | Story | insideradio.com

[Kevin Vahey]

25 years  -  Congrats

Steve Dodge lied thru his teeth to get the exclusive Cambridge cable deal
in the mid 80's as he never let on his plan was simply to continue the
Arlington system into Cambridge. He did follow thru on a solid Cambridge LO
channel and the studio and remote truck were used heavily by C-Span.
Continental Cable continued it after Dodge sold to Amos but when it was
sold to AT&T Broadband the plug was pulled.

He killed WHDH-AM and their legacy vanished.


On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:32 PM Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:

> Also the lead story today in NERW's 25th anniversary (!!) issue...
>
> www.fybush.com/nerw-20190121/
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 5:27 PM Don <astelle.donald@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Given that he was based in Boston, I thought I would pass this along...
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.insideradio.com/free/radio-and-tower-industry-consolidator-steve-dodge-dead-at/article_cc105740-1b58-11e9-ac40-e7c1c730c1ca.html
> >
> > In the late 1980s, Dodge formed Atlantic Radio, which merged with Tom
> > Stoner's
> > Stoner Broadcasting and David Pearlman's Multi Market Communications in
> > 1993
> > to form American Radio Systems. Beginning with 16 stations in seven
> > markets,
> > Dodge seized on the opportunity afforded by passage of the Telecom Act of
> > 1996 to grow ARS into radio's fourth-largest company. ARS became a major
> > radio consolidator, rolling up 96 stations centered in markets 10-50,
> > including Boston; Charlotte; Portland, OR; St. Louis; Pittsburgh;
> Seattle;
> > Sacramento; Buffalo; Rochester, NY; and Hartford. In 1998, ARS was sold
> to
> > CBS Corp. for $2.6 billion, a then-record price in the radio industry,
> > giving CBS a total of 175 radio stations, making it, at the time, the
> > industry's largest station owner.
> >
> >
>