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necturusI've been absent from here recently, dealing with work and helping a couple of sick friends. With each passing year, more people I know get sick or die. This year the chairman of the board of the nonprofit that runs my old college radio station was diagnosed with ALS, and another colleague of mine died of melanoma.
As much as people like to pretend otherwise, 50 is not the new 30 and 60 is not the new 40. Nor will the healthiest lifestyle necessarily postpone illness; my colleague who died was a regular runner who had run several Boston Marathons.
The broadcasting company my brother and I own is treading water at best; it's on track to lose a little bit of money this year because two the radio stations we bought were essentially basket cases, and we've had to put a lot of money into building them up. We were helped a little bit by political ads, mostly from Republicans, most of whom lost. Except for the governor, NH is now a blue state.
One of our accomplishments has been to get all six stations streaming on the Internet:
WCFR Springfield, Vermont (80's/90's)
WCNL Newport, New Hampshire (Country)
WCVR Randolph, Vermont (Country)
WNTK New London, New Hampshire (Talk)
WSCS New London, New Hampshire (Classical)
WUVR Lebanon, New Hampshire (Talk)
The talk stations are running programming that was chosen by the previous owner, which we have to keep running for the time being, alas.
Because I can't yet afford to pay myself, I am still working for all of my outside clients. This week has been a zoo; I've had to shuffle my schedule around to deal with two technical crises at one client's stations.
But I still love radio, and plan to do it until the day I drop dead.
As much as people like to pretend otherwise, 50 is not the new 30 and 60 is not the new 40. Nor will the healthiest lifestyle necessarily postpone illness; my colleague who died was a regular runner who had run several Boston Marathons.
The broadcasting company my brother and I own is treading water at best; it's on track to lose a little bit of money this year because two the radio stations we bought were essentially basket cases, and we've had to put a lot of money into building them up. We were helped a little bit by political ads, mostly from Republicans, most of whom lost. Except for the governor, NH is now a blue state.
One of our accomplishments has been to get all six stations streaming on the Internet:
WCFR Springfield, Vermont (80's/90's)
WCNL Newport, New Hampshire (Country)
WCVR Randolph, Vermont (Country)
WNTK New London, New Hampshire (Talk)
WSCS New London, New Hampshire (Classical)
WUVR Lebanon, New Hampshire (Talk)
The talk stations are running programming that was chosen by the previous owner, which we have to keep running for the time being, alas.
Because I can't yet afford to pay myself, I am still working for all of my outside clients. This week has been a zoo; I've had to shuffle my schedule around to deal with two technical crises at one client's stations.
But I still love radio, and plan to do it until the day I drop dead.
