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alittlelark

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5. I worked in radio in the 80's

Reply to Left Coast2020 (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 02:35 AM

May 2012

Good $ for a student. Our station was bought and changed to CW. The market was already saturated w/ CW. Two or three years later it became RW Talk Radio.

Many really amazing small stations died during the Reagan '80's.

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