By far our largest expense in our early years was distribution costs: what we paid AT&T for our leased lines. In 1975 we paid AT&T $80,500 which was 25% of our expenses! And, in 1976 it grew to $105,000 or 28%. AT&T was a monopoly. It...
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In those early years, when we were much smaller, each morning the executive team would come to my office for a 10-minute stand-up meeting. Thats right, no sitting. We all stood around the room and everyone reported: engineering, accounting, sales, affiliate relations, sports, news, ag,...
Many ask me: "So, how'd you get from farm broadcasting to sports?" The answer is simple: we had full-time leased lines and the University of Missouri network wanted to use them on Saturday afternoons. They were paying about $12,000 a year, I told them I'd...
We were a thorn in the side of the Missouri Farm Bureau for two reasons. First the MFB had its own market reporting service that provided any radio stations with market reports via telephone--free. The simple credit "reporting from the Missouri Farm Bureau" was the...