Re: [IRCA] Status of WOOW-1340-NC

["Russ Johnson" <radiok3pi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Scott.  I didn't even think of the out-of-town ownership issue.  That
could explain a good part of it.  There also seems to be a lot of employee
turnover in the business also - I could see that accounting for part of it
as well.

-Russ
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Russ Johnson wrote:
> > Hi Scott,
> >
> > Maybe I am naive (not in the business).
> >
> > But how in the world can a station fail / not remember to renew their
> > license.??  I am guessing the license has a term and you know years in
> > advance when it will expire...
> >
> > Seems incomprehensible to me.  Seems like I have read about several of
> these
> > in recent years.
>
> This is what happens when you have people who aren't "radio people"
> running a radio station. Yes, licenses have fixed terms, and yes, the
> managers SHOULD know when the expiration dates are coming up, but it's
> easy to "let the lawyers worry about that," and the next thing you know
> you're in a pickle like WOOW's.
>
> This happens particularly often in cases where you have absentee owners
> - the license paperwork goes to the owners or their lawyers in some
> distant city, and the people actually running the radio station day to
> day don't ever see it, so they may not know anything's gone wrong until
> it's too late.
>
> Another factor here is the elimination of the old FCC rules that
> required would-be station owners to demonstrate financial viability. It
> used to be that you had to show that there was enough money in the bank
> to run the station for three full years (including paying the lawyers
> and all the other detail work). Those rules went by the wayside some
> years ago, and now there are almost no qualifications to hold a license
> beyond having US citizenship and a criminal record free of felony
> convictions.
>
> s
>
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