How unusual is it for an FM rock station to have a news staff?
Extremely unusual. But when I came to KINK seven years ago, there were a lot of FM stations that had news. Certainly most of them had news in the morning, and a lot of them had news in the afternoons. Within our industry there’s lots of discussion about corporate ownership and the loss of the family-owned newspapers and broadcast outlets. You lived through that change, when the Bullit family sold King Broadcasting, including KGW and the other stations. Was there really a difference? Yeah, there was. The Bullit sisters were that rare breed of broadcaster who wanted to be community servants. It wasn’t just lip, it wasn’t just talk. If there were stations in the group that were losing money, which there always were, then they had other stations pick up the slack. So you very rarely changed formats. They believed in it. So what’s it like being owned by Infinity? For KINK it hasn’t been as noticeable, because the station’s doing well. But were the station to fall on hard times… Have you s
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