So long, Q100

[wooder]

The lead Q100 event each year is Bert's Big Adventure. A look at www.bertsbigadventure.org will show that BBA is owned and run by Bert Weiss and family as a 501C(3) oprganization, and is not affiliated with WWWQ Radio except via Bert. Bert leaves, Bert's Big Adventure goes with him. Bert ain't stupid.

...and you can count on that happening. Bert is likely to be thrown HUGE money by Star - an amount the Dickeys have never or will ever pay anybody in their company (whose last name isn't Dickey).

 

[jtudor]

They are utterly clueless. The FCC just popped them $7K for not having anyone in the main studio for a year and change in upstate New York.

To most conglomerates these days, Radio included, government fines are just a cost of doing business. The $7k fine is a whole lot less than they would have paid for an employee to work there, or even visit there on a regular basis. Just a cost of doing business. It's something they are willing to pay.

Is it right? No not at all, but it happens everywhere, even within government. I have seen county commissions vote to pay federal government fines for not processing paperwork fast enough, because the fine would be less than the cost of employees to meet the deadlines. It's just the way everyone does business these days, right or wrong.

John