Category: For What It’s Worth…

The Buyer’s Dilemma–Why Wanting the Perfect Deal Doesn’t Necessarily Make It Realistic Buyers want a fair deal. That’s reasonable.  But there’s a widening gap between what many Buyers want and what the market can actually deliver. And when a Buyer insists on the perfect station at the perfect price with the perfect terms, the Seller’s…

The Premium Dilemma — Why Sellers with Money‑Losing Stations Should Not be Asking Top Dollar If your station for sale loses money every month, a prospective Buyer is not being asked to pay for performance, they are being asked to pay for your problems. And Buyers know it. So, when a Seller insists on top…

Incomplete OPIF Political File uploads are now one of the FCC’s easiest enforcement targets — and how stations can protect themselves. Recently, we’ve been asked to assist clients with their Political File uploads to OPIF, unfortunately, we’ve had to red-flag documentation shortcomings.  Just as with your quarterly issues and programs reports, there should be no…

I walked into my first radio station in 1965. Still in High School — wide‑eyed, curious, and convinced that radio was the closest thing to magic a human being could touch. More than sixty years later, I’ve seen the industry rise, fall, reinvent itself, and lose pieces of its soul along the way. I’ve seen…

AM Radio’s Slow‑Moving Train Wreck: Tower Losses, Temporary Facilities, and the Coming Ownership Squeeze For what it’s worth: The AM band is entering one of the most precarious chapters in its century‑long history — and not because of noise floors, electric vehicles, or digital transitions. This looming crisis is far more basic: land and the…

No, Virginia — the FCC did not walk back the FRN/CORES update rule (in my opinion).There’s been a lot of debate recently suggesting the FCC reversed or softened its new requirement that all FRN holders must update their CORES information within 10 business days. After reviewing the February 6 Public Notice, the original Public Notice,…