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WMCA's 'Dr. Al' charged with unlicensed practice of medicine, surgery

Amazing! I wonder how carefully WOR and WABC vet the people who buy their weekend slots. Do you suppose they turned down Dr. Al? Or maybe he just couldn't afford their rates!
 
He probably couldn't afford the rates. You know how the radio business works. If there's money on the table you take it, run the spot and look the other way no matter how obvious the scam is.
 
You all must remember those ledgendary Denison's commercials..."Money talks and nobody walks" That's how they vet clients!
 
I'm sure even Dr. Gil Lederman would show up with a brokered show on the radio if the price is right. But if he chooses to use a Beatles song as his theme, folks will lose whatever little respect they may have had for the bad doctor.
 
Ironically, Mexico is taking the lead in cracking down on fake medical advertising claims.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i51uyunh6cgqpTlo21NQXFVYXOkA?docId=24732b9fbd8c466caf32fe81cf286e4e

What happens to radio in the US if that happens here? Many stations would be left with very few spots! I'll bet lots of AMs would go dark as a result.

570-WMCA was at the forefront of fraudulent financial advertising when the late snake Sonny Bloch was finally nailed for fraud and fled the country. It seems that phony financial claims have been largely replaced by phony medical claims, maybe due to greater scrutiny of the former.

Probably it's time to put the snake oil purveyors out of business, but that would be tough medicine for radio.
 
What happens to radio in the US if that happens here? Many stations would be left with very few spots! I'll bet lots of AMs would go dark as a result.
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This is one time that the US should follow Mexico's lead, but nobody wants to see radio stations go out of business.

On the other hand, if the only way that some radio stations can survive is by helping criminals separate the sick and the stupid from their money through fraud, then it's time those radio stations went dark.

In economics they call it "creative destruction" and its ultimately a good thing. In this case, the more fraud-supported stations that go dark the better the band will sound for the legitimate stations that survive.

AM stations, particularly at the top end of the dial, are not only threatened by all the additional electrical noise in the air, but by,often overwhelming, co and adjacent channel interference. There is 5-kw high end AM that I have to tune extremely carefully to find even on a top quality radio when only a mile or two from the transmitter because of all the competing signals on the band at night. A good cleaning out of the band might actually lead to the surviving stations having a better reason to exist than to make it possible for bad guys to rip off wishful thinkers and gullible believers.
 
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