Re: [IRCA] IBOC battle begins

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

kevin redding wrote:

>> What did the people of Taunton, Massachusetts get last week when their
>> local WPEP 1570 handed back its license, after its owner was bought  
>> out
>> to enable a power increase up the road at WNSH 1570 Beverly?
> 
> This has nothing to do with WBZ diminishing the worth of WYSL or its  
> ability to earn money. I hate to see WPEP go away since ABDX member  
> Jay Rogers works there, but businesses buy out businesses every day.  
> The FCC does have a say in this though but they haven't had much to  
> say about this kind of thing lately other than to rubber stamp it.

Actually, it's very closely related, at least if you follow my line of 
speculation. I want to make it very clear that I'm not speaking for Bob 
here, nor disclosing anything he hasn't already said in public 
forums...but he's made it quite clear that he intends, at some point in 
the fairly near future, to cash out on his investment in WYSL by selling 
it. Here's the speculation: what if it's cheaper for CBS to just buy Bob 
out completely than to fight him in court?

There's the comparison I'm trying to make to the WPEP situation: both 
would then be cases of a community's sole local broadcast service being 
silenced in order to eliminate interference to another signal.

And yes, it's "just business" these days, as Kevin points out...

s
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