What exactly does this mean?
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Buy yourself a radio station, March 2, in Fort Lauderdale
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What exactly does this mean?
From what I can tell, it means that you must sign paperwork saying you are not selling drugs. http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/anti-drug-abuse-act-certification
Of course, they would not be able to sell pharmaceutical products when they are off the air.
So, does this mean that if any of their sponsors were pharmaceutical companies, they would not be allowed to go off the air?
JCE cluster manager Steve Lapa now chief strategist for Miller Broadcast Palm Beach Gardens. Could this be a buyer for the stations?
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Miller Broadcast is a Chicago based company that represents air and management talents in radio and TV, they present talent to companies/stations, negotiate contracts, etc. They're not involved in radio station ownership or management of stations. They're on the web at http://www.millerbroadcast.com/
Hmm that begs the question are the people holding the note qualified to hold the licenses and run the stations according to the FCC?
I believe the you are talking about the form licencees fill out any drug convictions of the principle owners. Back in the day you were a convicted felon or not a US born citizen, is was very hard to own a station. I am not too sure now about being a US citizen now, because Rupert Murdoch's Fox owns TV stations.
Rupert Murdoch became a naturalized citizen of the US in 1985. He did this to satisfy the legal requirement that only US citizens were permitted to own US television stations.
Back on topic...
They are Karen Curtis and Rich Stevens.
If that were true Rich Stevens would have placed himself back at the 9-Noon timeslot.
They didn't get paychecks for about a month and a half. They have been getting paid since and got back pay, too. It happened back in January.
I miss typed, I meant U S born. I am not sure but in 1971 an exchange student from England who lived down the street was having difficulty getting his "third" due to citizenship. I am not sure how it turned out. I was off to the USAF and lost touch. Come to think of it some accommodation has to be made because you have places like Detroit where you are in another country in less than 5 minutes if traffic cooperates.
Everything has "loosened" up. Two of the four major US cell operations are not US owned. Sprint cellphone is controlled by Softbank (Japan) and T Mobile is German owned. Whether that is a good thing or not I don't know.
But I do know it you have a drug conviction, the FCC gets involved.
I think Miller is Barsky's agent or was. I went to the WFTL site today before I even wrote this and saw Barsky's picture off the home page but his airchecks are available. It looks like they have a couple new shows..one talk and one music... NO Barsky scheduled. (The plot thickens. )
Where's your sense of humor.... I said there were new shows added.. Why are Barsky's airchecks still up there.. Lisa Miller was his agent.. If her company Miller Broadcasting took over these stations then its interesting to me. Miller website doesn't say they own stations, but anyone can buy a station whenever they want.. AM is cheap. No one seems to know who bought the stations and how they can stay on air with no money coming in due to bankrupcy.
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The previous posters are correct, that is, TGunn and AM Rocks. The website for the station is grossly wayyyy out of date, and seem it hasn't been serviced for over a year, at least since the time of the bankruptcy.
TheBarsky airchecks are up there, most likely, due lack of a webmaster doing updates, and not any marketing plan to shop Basky, or bring him back. He has a very bad medical issue that caused him to leave the air. Same goes for the job postings. Those are not new openings, and there isn't a new owner who is hiring. Those jobs have been up for over a year, and outdated as well, since the bankruptcy when the station seem to have had a mass exodus of employees leaving due to not getting paychecks.
The music show, the doo wop shop isn't new either . . . that's been on the air for a couple years on 850 now, since JCR sold 1040 WLVJ, which is where that show previously aired. And as AM, or was it T, who said . . . and word from others is that there were/are no bidders on the stations. So, it seems the creditor who was trying to collect the debt is running it because, well, they're stuck with the stations.
Miller doesn't own, operate stations and there's nothing to indicate they made bids. Even if they did bid . . . they'd be subject to FCC approval to assure they're eligible to run the stations, which takes a long time to determine . . . and thus, at this time, the creditor who initiated the bankruptcy is running the stations at the moment. Just because you bid, don't mean you run it. It means you put a bid and various parties will review the paperwork.
My guess is Miller is the current court appointed 'receiver' operating the station until a new owner/licensee can be found. It happens all the time when stations go Chapter 7 after being considered insolvent. Essentially the receiver keeps the lights on and protects the operation at a predetermined state. Chances are the new owners won't be required to take on that many of the obligations (debts) incurred by the previous owner, but they can still be a haunting presence for the new folks.
I helped a friend purchase an insolvent station from auction years ago. The challenge was rebuilding good will with advertisers and business in the market, because more often than not, the previous owner ran up HUGE lopsided trade deals with advertisers, having never fulfilled most of the agreements. Advertisers don't care about a station emerging from bankruptcy protection, new owner or not.
I helped a friend purchase an insolvent station from auction years ago. The challenge was rebuilding good will with advertisers and business in the market, because more often than not, the previous owner ran up HUGE lopsided trade deals with advertisers, having never fulfilled most of the agreements. Advertisers don't care about a station emerging from bankruptcy protection, new owner or not.
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