Late Night - Early AM on WBZ-AM is now Mr. Computer

[Ron]

>>Eyeheart -- I refuse to use their ridiculous spelling -- is a publicly
held company driven, as usual, by short-term financial goals that have
nothing to do with serving Boston or any of the other communities they are
licensed to serve.<<<

Wasn't Gannett, Westinghouse, Hearst, CBS, NBC, ABC, Metromedia and the rest
"publicly held companies driven, as usual, by short-term financial goals"?
I'm sure stock price, dividends and such drove all those companies as well,
yet somehow they were able to service their communities, right?

Smaller, privately owned stations aren't doing much better.  

I think this has to do with the realities of the financial world, where once
valuable properties (assets) are now worth a pittance of what they were
purchased for.  Blaming "publicly held companies" driven by their fiduciary
responsibilities is an easy excuse. 

I think when the FCC allowed and Congress removed the ownership caps
(through the "Omnibus Telecommunications Act") set the stage.  (Always watch
out for anything with the adjective "Omnibus" attached.)





-----Original Message-----
From: Boston-Radio-Interest
<boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org> On Behalf Of Rob
Landry
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:24 PM
To: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com>
Cc: bri <BRI@bostonradio.org>
Subject: Re: Late Night - Early AM on WBZ-AM is now Mr. Computer



On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, Kevin Vahey wrote:

> Let's be honest - radio as we knew it is dying and this once vibrant 
> mailing list is as well because we have lost many long-time posters 
> over the years.

Not dying, I think, but changing. Change is, if not constant, inevitable. 
Palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould came up with the concept of "punctuated
equilibrium"-- imperceptibly slow change punctuated by episodes of rapid,
revolutionary change -- to describe the evolution of living things in
nature. This description fits the history and progress of our own species as
well.

Eyeheart -- I refuse to use their ridiculous spelling -- is a publicly held
company driven, as usual, by short-term financial goals that have nothing to
do with serving Boston or any of the other communities they are licensed to
serve. Announcers and journalists are just so many assets to be used and
discarded as corporate management sees fit.

Meanwhile, in the upper Connecticut valley, my brother and I are trying to
do right by the communities we serve, using the scant resources we have. 
It's not easy.


Rob