Coast to Coast AM

[FredLeonard]

WBZ is the #1 station in Boston.

Mr Know-It-All Strikes out.

WBZ is currently number six in AQH share; number 11 in cume. :

 

[jmtillery]

JMTilliery has just shared with us the bean counter, B-school gospel that has crippled radio and US business, in general.

Mr. Leonard, what I have just shared with you is the "gospel" of real word life in radio and any business. If you have never actually managed a station and have been responsible for meeting the station's daily expenses, including payroll, it's easy for you to sit in front of a computer screen and be an "arm-chair" program director and station manager, telling everyone else how it should be done. I have managed, consulted and owned multiple stations, having successfully turned around several failing stations, that were on the verge of insolvency, into positively cash flowing properties within a relatively reasonable time frame. Had I not taken the measures I had taken, the stations I turned around would have gone dark. Is taking a station off the air a better solution?!

The facts remain the same. Basic economics 101 mandates that an entity must have a cash flow greater than the cash outflow in order to remain solvent. Like it or not, radio is a business intended to generate a profit. That profit cannot be generated and a station cannot remain on the air it its expenses are greater than its billing.

 

[TheBigA]

WBZ is currently number six in AQH share; number 11 in cume. :

Which is a far cry from WPHT's #21. My point being that CBS is not going to waste any more money on this station. WBZ is a very different matter, regardless of the details.

 

[ronald54321]

I think AM means early morning. However, you can listen to it on many stations through the Internet.