"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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In any case, what killed the station more than anything else was the
expansion of the metro to areas the signal did not cover.

As I said previously, it didn't cover most of the metro from the get-go.
It's nighttime pattern gave it a great signal right up along the Columbia,
but by the time you were 30-40 blocks south of the river, the signal was
poor,

And the market was not even the whole county in Pulse or Hooper.

One of the primary reasons for loss of license was violations (lots of
them) of the Fairness Doctrine. They were in the tank for several
politicians on various levels, and pushed those politicians' agendas on
the air and behind closed doors.

That's not true. The biggest infraction was bribing a congressman and ex
parte dealing with several others.

In addition, the news on the Burden stations was slanted to favor candidates
and politicians who Burden favored via clever writing. This was not
"Fairness" at all but slanting the news; Fairness requires equal time...
slanting the news falsely was considered then a character qualification.
Today, it's irrelevant.

But the big issue was the bribing and ex parte stuff, the same things that
did in Channel 7 in Miaami and one of the Orlando TV's at the same time.