April 24, 1998

FCC
Room 222
1919 M 8t~~t~ NW
Wau-L D.C. 20544

Dear Honorable Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission:

This letter is a reply comment in response to FCC file nos. RM-92O8 and RM-9242. As a General Manager of a 24 hour FM Country station that strives to serve the public, I must ask, WHY? Why are you allowing citizens who have no direction for their stations other than "to broadcast" to have the opportunity to broadcast their agendas? This is outrageous!! We provide local news, weather, local sports, communitity calendars, every single day. We provide cancellations and postponement of local events, every single day! We volunteer our services to community groups and donate air time to promote their events, many times on location! Why would you ever discount that kind of activity and downplay it by providing signals to "stations" that will never willingly honor such committnents! If you want to raise the standard and the bar of our industry, you need to sceen your competitors a little bit better!

Sincerely,
 

Christopher W. Grindrod
General Managcr
WLZZ FM
Montpelier, OH