"dxAce" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:

How else would the general manager of a radio station do a business card?
Many general managers are also owners of the licensee corporation, but
they
don't put that on their card.

Edweenie, with an ego as big as yours, if you were the owner you'd
certainly
have put that on your business card and you'd certainly have signed the
QSL's
that way as well.

Sorry, that is not the way it was done. Look at anyone's veries or QSL's (MW
or SW) from the 60's from Ecuador and you will find that people like Gonzalo
Maldonado (Atahualpa), Gerardo Brborich (RNE), Gustavo Herdoiza (Tarqui),
Armando Rormero (Cristal), Voltaire Paladines (Atalaya), Eduardo Granja
(Ecuatoirana), etc., etc. who were all also owners never signed as
"propietario" but as general manager. In that society and culture, putting
"owner" on a business card was the height of tackiness... something only
Numa Pompilio Castro of Radio Cosmopolita would do....

In any case, you might drop a line to my partner at the only station I owned
with a partner (Radio Carrousel 660 Guayaquil), Jaime Nebot Velasco and ask
him who I am. He can currently be reached by addressing your letter, in
Spanish, of course, to the Mayor of Guayaquil which is the position he
occupies currently.

Same thing with the 'Eduardo' shtik, if it were true, that's
the way you would have signed things, especially being in Latin America.

As mentioned before, I hav enot used that name except on such legal
documents as require _all_ names and on newsgroups, ever. when I woened
stations in Ecuador or managed stations and groups in Puerto Rico, I did not
need to use extra names... having an Irish name in Latin America is not all
that uncommon, as Bernard O'Higgins will testify (were he still alive).

You think that having a name that ends in a vowel somehow makes a person
seem to be something different? Non-Spanish names are profuse in Latin
America, ranging from Fujimori to Fox to Menem to Stroessner, to name a few
former presidents of several different countries.

However, as you and I both know, you were not an owner, nor are you
'Eduardo'.

Hey, even closer to home... talk to Larry Cervone, former head of Gates and
then BE in Quincy... he sold me the original equipment for my first
station... paid with travelers cheques in Quincy in June of1964... he loves
the story of the 17 year old who was building a radio station. Or, look for
my letter to the editor in Broadcasting in September, 1964 about
establishing contacts with stations in other countries. Or any member of the
International Broadcaster's Idea Bank in the 60's.... from Art Keller of EZ
communications to Cary Simpson of the Intermountain Network in Pennsylvania,
all of whom knew me "then" and knew what I did. Or Herb Levin of the 1020
Kendall, FL, station who was GM at WQA in Miami who helped me get my GM
position in Puerto Rico in 1970 when things went bad in Ecuador.

Nice try... I can name hundreds and hundreds of people who knew the
stations, knew me and would know you are without basis in your claim.

Go ahead... write to any of them... or to any broadcaster in Quito who was
active in that period. Go for it.