Airchexx.com in need of a buyer/new operator

[qid937]

All:

It is with regret I inform all that Airchexx.com is in need of a new buyer or our home for vintage radio may disappear. Per a special announcement on it's website, Achexx webmaster Steve West states that he is looking for a buyer due to serious financial difficulties. Mr. West is also making an urgent plea for donations to help him and his family squeak by in these hard times.

While I do not feel it is appropriate to sepculate or criticize his situation, anyone willing to help Mr. West through a donation or anyone with the time and proper backing to buy the Airchexx site should immideatly head over to Airchexx.com and click the line for the announcement at the very top above the logo for the most recently posted aircheck. Here Mr. West explains the situation in greater detail and provides a link for pay pal donations.

Link: http://airchexx.com/webmasters-corner

Thank you for your time, consideration and generosity to Mr. West.

-BC

 

[mleach]

This is sad news !! Didn't the same thing more/less happen to reelradio.com awhile back?

Reading Steve's message about his troubles, the 150 mile commute to his I assume full-time radio gig, family flat broke...

wouldn't it have been simplier for him to find a regular non-radio job in his area and work in radio part-time? even if it means traveling the 150 or so miles?

But then again it is radio. I used to work beside a woman who did radio news. One day over some silly reason, she was fired. We never heard from her again, that is until a year later when someone told us that had seen her at a store using food stamps. Later we found out she had been evicted from her home and really was down to her last dime. We all wanted to help her. One of clients was a temporary employment agency. Our station put in a good word for her and told them she would be a great peorson for a customer service job, perhaps a secretary someplace. The agency contacts her for a job ( one that even paid more than radio ) but she refused !! She told them she could NOT do a job that wasn't radio. That was the last we ever heard from her.

Dedication to the business is a good thing, but if I had to make a choice of putting food on the table or waiting for my next gig and watching the bills pile up, I would put radio on the back burner.

I AM NOT saying its the case with Steve. Perhaps he does live in a depressed area where there are no jobs around at all for anything and one does have to travel a lot of miles to work. Just that over the years I have met some who feel that their whole world is radio and radio only.