Every once in a while an opportunity comes around
where there are only a few people who know what's
up and they're not well enough connected to take
advantage of something right in front of their face.
perceive this to be the case right now in minority
radio.
If I were to get the opportunity to have a radio program,
it would be called The Vector and it would be very much
like Cobb in many respects. I would direct it to the
internal Third World and point the way to the Second.
To me, the best of the Second World would be well
represented by the man who owns a small, multimillion
dollar business. It's where I'm trying to go. In some
respects, I'm not perfectly qualified to host such a show,
but in other ways I'm the perfect man for the job. But
that's not the point of this post, rather it is to draw
attention to what's going on at Sirius & XM with regard
to what appears to be a minority set-aside for satellite
radio spectrum. A cat I met last month, Malik Shakur
is in the thick of following the FCC machinations and
has an application in process for some of this spectrum.
He's determined and his website is getting little traffic.
I notice these things and I hope that to the extent people
notice me,I can direct some attention his way. It's very
difficult to be a one man crusade, especially when there
are so many people who very desperately want to achieve
the same goal. We're just not all networked.
So as I said, I'm going to get folks I know, whom I have
confidence would be excellent in the radio business to
get aware of Malik's efforts. Something important can
happen here.
http://cobb.typepad.com/cobb/
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