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WBYW...104.3 Lynn Haven/Panama City....The Bay.....is dark

I tried to git your back, Poledo. Your comments make sense in theory, but let's face it. Seabreeze and yeah, Mark Carter, created a great dependable niche format in a nice piece of upscale real estate. There are not huge amounts actual rooftops with lots of people, so the tourist biz is crucial. It's tough, but a decade plus has built up a great basis for Mark. Plus, he's honest and pretty straight forward vs. the quarterly bs suits that come down to the beach with so much knowledge and experience and wash out in months because they are basically stupid morons with ego and no common sense. The coverage from the more powerful PC and FWB stations cover the Walton area well. That doesn't mean they sell much down that way. It just makes the ability to compete tough.

Probably you just are tired of Elton John vs. Beach.

And FTR, I had a little idea of what the Bay format was. If were going to have "that discussion" on formats, yeah....AAA or whatever Bay was is a virtual Titanic. So what formats would that leave?
Is that She FM thingy still playing in PCB? My suggestion --- watch this fans ---- A country/AC blend aimed right at that know-it-all engineer. Call it WDIH. Deer 104. As Deer in Headlights. Hehe.
 
Tibbs2 said:
poledo said:
The biggest question I have about Horizon is are they an old fashion, southern, cash only business? If they are operating on credit then why the hell did they bother finishing out the build of 104.3? That was just throwing money away. They should have just let their creditors sell off the CP for whatever Tibbs was willing to offer.
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Might as well throw my name in the hat. Someone knows how to contact me. I have $5.00.
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I'll add a 1999 F-150 (it runs, no A/C) and a half a fifth of Wild Turkey to your offer if your interested in being partners on 104.3. Hopefully you'll have enough clout to get any engineering work done on credit... maybe the good ole engineer won't shut us down when he doesn't get paid for labor. :)
 
Tibbs2 said:
I tried to git your back, Poledo.
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I didn't need any support on that one Tibbs. My comments were simply misinterpreted. I actually find Beach to be one of the more interesting stations in that area. The only issue I've ever had was that it has always appeared that 95.1 is needlessly spending money that could never be recovered. Fancy waterfront studios, etc... PCB is just the wrong market for stuff like that assuming you have to turn a profit or at minimum break even. I have no bad thoughts concerning the format or folks working there. I'm not sure I even know what set TDO off... it's all good. It's often hard to "get a read" on what people mean when you can't hear their voice or see their face when they speak.

If I ever get into radio it'll be a cash business and a tax write off. If I decide to play that game it'll be pure stupid (mad genius?) luck if I ever get noticed or make a profit off a single station. If I got into radio with 2 or more stations one of them would be "just what the market ordered" while one of the others would be the insane voices and jukebox that I hear in my head telling me what to do... along with Coast to Coast overnight for Rob and uncensored music late nights on weekends.
 
Well Poledo, that Wild Turkey offer is pretty exciting. Being in Nashvegass, we get lots of cool whiskey and bourbon made live and local. Even gin and world class rum. But, the allure of radio (even in 2013) along the panhandle is not forgotten. Sometimes the most rewarding challenges in life are missed by not taking the chance. Jumping off a cliff. Well, that's better to avoid. Radio is rit in the middle of the two options. Some folks on here know I have made those jumps in the past and missed some more recently.

If you can pay cash and do it debt-free, it really makes it so much easier. As you know, there is smart radio, radio for show and downright unfathomable radio. chances of the latter two working along the water are zero or less in today's changing advertising world. And that is all radio is. Mark Carter is an example of the right way. Continual improvement, tedious hard work and then you become an overnight success after many year. Jimmy at WAAZ is the other. I don't know much about the Beach ownership, but I do know I like the stations energy and the fact that some of the old PC tried and true are either live or VTed on there is proof of caring and commitment. Others. I can't figure out.
 
Beach, Seabreeze, WAAZ. All local.....nuff said :)

maybe if the 10 billion dollar payment isn't made, we will see more local owners.
 
Justice Served if it happens in many cases. Heard the layoff wheel went wild. It's that time of the year...
 
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