spring update.

[tgolebie]

I'm back in michigan for the summer. The weather has been weird. When I pulled in about a week ago there was about 8 inches of snow on the ground. Today it was 73 degrees. Tomorrow it will be 80 degrees. We're busy getting the campground ready for the season. Many sticks and branches to pick up from the winter. The river really did some

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[rjwhite]

Wait- you'll be based in Mich, then?

Also- heard this year is the last for Auction.

[scottecook]

Yes.... it was the last Auction year. BK told me... still talk via e-mail now-and-then. Do you know why?

[cleo_middlesex]

do you know why, or are you asking? i'd love to know. i'd also love to chat with bk via email;)

[rjwhite]

I am guessing that the return on the investment is probably lower. It takes a lot to run a 5-hour-a-night television show for a week, probably fewer people calling, huge segmentation of the audience due to cable, compared to 30 years ago, etc. Probably a lot of reasons, the chief being that it just doesn't pull in as much dough.

They moved to a lot of canned pledge drives, too with automated phone systems.

Yeah, I just emailed Mr. Kinney today. He informed me that Dick is also retiring in the next week or so.

I realized on the way home that I started volunteering for WKAR in 1987 or 88... 2004 was my last time as an Auction host. I spent a heck of a lot of time working on stuff there- high school volunteer, contestant on "Quizbusters," student production employee, pledge/auction on-air host. Very weird.

MI

[tgolebie]

Yup, I'm based out of michigan mainly now. I still plan to head west this winter and see how it goes. I might just RV it or get an apartment or something.

Dick Best was telling me about Auction's demise. That is too bad. It was one of the cooler things that the station has done.

Dickster is retiring too real soon. It'll be a whole new place!