From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10036 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, November 1 2022 Volume 14 : Number 10036 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Shopper, You can qualify to get a $90 Johnson & Johnson gift card! ["John] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 07:12:50 -0400 From: "Johnson & Johnson Shopper Gift Opportunity" Subject: Shopper, You can qualify to get a $90 Johnson & Johnson gift card! Shopper, You can qualify to get a $90 Johnson & Johnson gift card! http://synogutz.guru/YBCNamt120OmVhhENLN8aZR7c8JoMC9CTUo21tJU9aZ2p2TaYw http://synogutz.guru/hUjsVVy5OWdtbINe2b_cuvILCZxjmwjY8HcBn-WzNbLk6mJgvA eview's transitional service for former Star customers and promotional messages for Preview occupied WQTV's evening hours until September 5, 1983, when channel 68 launched a new ad-supported evening lineup. The station's existing daytime programming from the Financial News Network (FNN) was joined by syndicated fare including Kojak, Barnaby Jones and Tic-Tac-Dough. The new programming proved popular enough that the FNN daytime programming was discontinued on April 2, 1984. WQTV became an aggressive buyer of programs and an aggressive promoter of its programming. The station relocated its studios to a site on Soldiers Field Road in Brighton. It managed to see ratings increases, and sales nearly doubled in 1985 to $4.2 million ($8.75 million in 2021 dollars). However, the early 1980s had brought a boom in independent stations and rapid increases in the prices for syndicated programming that formed the backbone of these stations. WQTV succumbed in December 1985 and laid off all except "the essential operating staff"bdismissing more than half of its 40 workersbin a desperate bid to cut costs; it also put itself on the market. Many popular programs were axed by the station because they had become too expensive, while WQTV's national sales representative resigned from the position and began considering "further action" to obtain back payments. Clifford Curley, the general manager, managed to get the station to turn an operating profit in the first months of 1986 by subsisting on pre-1948 films, any and every network show turned down by the local affiliates, and other titles it owned in perpetuity, along with aggressively ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10036 ***********************************************