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D&C Story on Rochester Radio

VOR - thanks for posting this link. Your comment below the article was very good. I added my own two cents as well - on a favorite topic of mine: the NAB's successful gutting of LPFM/Community Radio. I also added a link to this web board - let's see if any "civilians" join us here for discussions -- they might be shocked to come here and find more disturbing truth about the dark underworld of local radio :D
 
Why D&C Story on Rochester Radio?

The article didn't exactly extol the virtues of radio and/or radio advertising, did it? If anything, it denigrated the effectiveness of radio advertising in light of all the "challenges". That's not exactly bad for the D&C's advertising department.
 
Still for the D&C to write anything about radio is truly amazing. If you look at their so-called radio section in their TV guide you will find it is so outdated that it lists WVOR as a Rochester station. How long ago were those call letters replaced? Also the paper still lists a number of people and programs that haven't been on the local airwaves in years.
If the Democrat & Chronicle wanted to report a story on local radio it would have included the huge salaries and perks top managers get.
All this fuss about Brother Wease making a six figure salary totaling over 400 grand a year yet nothing is written about the big bucks pulled down by several executives at the local ( not-for-profit) public broadcasting operation (over 800 thousand a year).
The reason the paper doesn't touch public broadcasting is because they work together on joint projects and, I believe, one of Gannett's executives also serves on WXXI's Board of Directors. Does the words conflict-of-interest ring a bell?
 
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