Re: Salem shows total disregard for almost every area...
You know the station that is really serving their community is tiny little 1220. They only have 250 watts from a cell tower in the Mennonite community at Beneva and Bahia Vista, but they have an eclectic mix of programming, much of it paid by the hour, but still serving the community. That storefront studio on Main St. is probably expensive real estate, but sure gives them great exposure. The WLSS and WGUL Salem issues show what happens when ideology trumps good business sense and community service. But we have only ourselves to blame. The communications act of 1996 screwed up the ownership rules and really creamed local ownership. Even Clear Channel is doing a better not great, but better job of local service than WLSS is.
> > And their biggest fraud in this area is their hidden local
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> > studio in St. Pete for WLSS
> >
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> ...Not to mention the file I have of at least 50 opinions
> AGAINST the switch and BEGGING for the old shows back
> (versus 2, yes, only two--despite what Salem claims, FOR
> it).
> Opinion COUNTS? I got opinion counts....
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> dz
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> > > > They have three cookie-cutter formats... Christian
> talk,
> >
> > > > secular talk, and the Fish for FM... and 90 percent of
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> > > their
> > > > stations are one of the three.
> > > >
> > > > "Where your opinion counts?" It couldn't count for
> LESS
> > at
> > >
> > > > Salem.
> > >
> > > Actually, the Christian talk is as much cookie-cutter as
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> > > whoever sends a check. Note the airing of many quack
> > health
> > > and money shows on a "religious" station. Salem is run
> by
> > > frauds.
> > >
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