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CC In Minot In 2011 - What If...

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Remember back in 2002 when the town of Minot, ND was hit with a toxic accident, and Clear Channel's cluster of radio stations underserved the area with necessary information?

Well, wouldn't you know it, Minot finds itself in the news once again, due to flooding. Of course, CC no longer serves the area. But it makes you wonder, had they not sold their Minot stations four years ago, if they gathered what they learned from the 2002 incident, and provided adequate information for listeners regarding the disaster that is upon the area in 2011.
 
I have to think we know the answer to the question and that CC did the right thing by leaving Minot.
 
Except, they didn't leave Minot. CC still runs several stations in Minot.
 
Facts are in short supply here, aren't they?

Yes, CC is still in Minot...and they spent a lot of money moving one of their AMs (KRRZ 1390) to a temporary location to keep it on the air during the flooding. (That temporary location is the new home of another one of their AMs, KCJB 910, which is also getting a lot of money spent on it to build out a brand-new AM directional array.)
 
It's not for lack of trying. They desperately tried to sell the whole cluster a while ago, and just couldn't close the deal.

For all the talk about local owners...there isn't anyone local who has stepped up to the plate. They had a local guy a few years ago, but he couldn't get the financing. And now, it's even harder to get money for radio stations without a lot of collateral.

Back to 2002, the real issue wasn't about radio at all. That was a smoke screen. The real question was why did the Army transport toxic chemicals in a populated area. They tried to sneak it through late at night when everyone was asleep. That is the real documentary that all the big time authors ignored. Much to the relief of the Army and the government.
 
DToTheJ said:
Remember back in 2002 when the town of Minot, ND was hit with a toxic accident, and Clear Channel's cluster of radio stations underserved the area with necessary information?
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Clear Channel did everything required of it. EAS broadcasts are not initiated by stations, but by government authorities. In Minot, the authorities did not know how to initiate an alert; had they known the CC stations would have broadcast them as the stations were fully equipped.

And, at around 2 AM, listening in a community like Minot would have been perhaps a few hundred people. 99% of the community would not have heard the alert via radio anyway.

The Urban Legend of CC being somehow responsible for the local authorities not knowing how to behave in an emergency continues to live on, despite the total lack of truth in the allegations and accusations.

Under any other owner, the stations probably would not have even been on the air at the time... making the whole argument even more absurd.
 
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