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- , so we
went on up to a little higher tower, and we overlapped the A pattern of
his station in Austin.
But he had all the business he could handle and
he was running those prize stories, you know, they were paying those
huge sums for advertising
- to
layout an ad and--nothing fancy because I wasn't a
professional advertising mann--but at least we got the
message when Johnson's helicopter was coming to town.
PB:
Most of these small towns that you went into, they dirn't
have a daily newspaper.
Would
- all the paying ones.
G:
What was Prof Greene's political philosophy?
W:
Horace Richards put in a little radio station that was an outlaw
station--it had no license--in the Ford Motor Company.
day and night if he could get any advertisers.
with his
- Zandt County that joins you, y'all
haven't done doodley." When Johnson got his helicopter, I had to
pay all the bills up there and get it advertised and get cards sent
out to everybody.
And they'd hit people up in Tyler and nobody'd
helped them.
When
- than any
other one man had.
The man who ran second was the man in the east
end, the district attorney in this German section, which we didn't
talk about.
M:
We didn't want to advertise him.
He got second place.
If the man was strong, you just
- with the elected county officials, walk around the square,
shake hands, make a noon speech to one of the civic clubs, this type
of campaign.
No glamour, no great advertising or publicity campaigns.
There were some mailings, of course, not like today
- on that frequency
and would protect them with a directional antenna in their coverage.
They were a little upset about this.
You know, most of these big
stations actually try to sell an audience that they don't even have,
but they lead their advertisers to believe
