Honor Among Broadcasters
Here’s one:
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Your reaction to the above might well be, Of course nobody would run that! If so, ask yourself why. Because it’s one-sided, negative advertising? Just now, an election season, you’re hearing nothing but. Because it asks the public to swear off the opposition? So does almost every other commercial on the airwaves. Because it’s what the industry likes to call “issue oriented”? One issue a millennium won’t kill anybody. This much is clear: labor was attacking a fraternal advertiser. (A CWA official tells us that before approaching local radio, NABET was turned away by such print media as TV Guide and the New York Times TV section.)
What about this? we asked Mike Disney, general manager of the two stations. Professing vague knowledge of what his sales manager might have been up to, Disney said, “I believe we were not really that interested. Obviously WMAQ is a good sponsor of ours.”
Indeed she has. That’s where NABET finds itself today, at the back of the bus asking solidarity of fuming motorists stuck in rush-hour traffic.
Virtual Baseball: The Results
Individual results were nearly as close. For example, Winge and STATS agreed that Matt Williams would hit 62 home runs and that Jimmy Key would win 23 games, Ken Hill 21, and Greg Maddux 20. STATS found Frank Thomas batting .335, hitting 53 homers (one behind Ken Griffey Jr.), and driving in 140 runs. Winge gave Thomas a .346 average, a league-leading 55 homers (one ahead of Griffey), and 146 RBIs.
