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Station Editorial: It's The End of One Era, And the Start of Another

STATION EDITORIAL

Posted June 28, 2025

 

This is a station editorial, I’m Randal J. Miller, station president.

Well, it’s the end of one era, and the beginning of another.  

The Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC, on June 27th approved the transfer of our radio station licenses, to Hart Media Group, LLC, of Rochester.  Matt is a Taylorville native and worked for me as a part-time announcer on WTIM Taylorville while he was in high school in the 1990’s.

We announced the pending sale of our stations in Taylorville and Clinton, on March First, then applied to the F-C-C for license transfer approval shortly thereafter. We expect to close on the sale in late July, with Hart taking possession on August First.  Matt has asked me to stay on to serve as a consultant for a year after we close the sale.

Included in the sale are our 6 Taylorville-based radio stations and our on-line daily newspaper taylorvilledailynews.com; and our 2 Clinton-based radio stations plus our on-line daily newspaper dewittdailynews.com.

The sale will culminate my almost 52 years in the radio business, with 43 of them in ownership.  That ownership number includes almost 33 in Taylorville and nearly 18 in Clinton.

We thank God for the opportunity of serving you, our listeners, readers, and advertisers, in the many communities we serve, over these many decades.  It’s always been a joy to come to work because of the relationships I’ve had with my staff, our advertisers, listeners, and readers.   All of YOU have made this journey fun.

My wife Cathy, who has done special event marketing for our company since 2008, will also be retiring.    I’ll be spending more time working in my faith-based ministry called Win the Day Ministries which you can find on-line at wintheday-dot-life.   Cathy will be more involved in volunteering for several non-profits she’s been involved in.

Please welcome Matt and his family as they continue the legacy of local media in our communities, the same way you welcomed Cathy and I to your communities these many years ago.  

Station Editorial: Washington and Springfield Just Keep Spending

STATION EDITORIAL

Posted June 4, 2025

 

This is a station editorial, I’m Randal J. Miller, station president.

Well, both Washington and Springfield are again on the spending binge with less revenue to back it up.

In Washington, the House-passed “Big Beautiful Bill” that the U-S Senate is considering, while being sold as benefiting you and me, has been scored by the Congressional Budget Office to add another 2-point-4 TRILLION, that’s TRILLION with a “T”, to the already massive 36-point-2 TRILLION the U-S Government is in debt.   While being sold as cutting taxes, ANYTHING that INCREASES the national debt, even in the name of reducing taxes, is a BAD thing.

And in Springfield, in the late hours of May 31st, the Illinois General Assembly passed a 55-point-2 billion dollar budget that increases taxes by some one billion dollars to help plug a 3-billion dollar shortfall.   There are new taxes on businesses, nicotine, and sports betting.  

In both cases, the bottom line is that government—both federal and state—still haven’t figured out how to live within their means.  Every lobbying group that is at the trough for money, will again get what they want, in order for the politicians to get contributions from those same groups to get re-elected.   It’s all about getting re-elected for our legislators, NOT about governing or doing the right thing.

There IS a day of reckoning for both the United States and the State of Illinois.   You and I have never been allowed to spend more than we take in, without either filing bankruptcy or going to jail.   

We’re paying for their decisions with higher inflation and taxes.   Our kids and grandkids will pay for their decisions also with higher inflation, and in the case of the Federal Government, at some point, default, and that won’t be pretty.

Both our country and our state are going down a road that goes to nowhere, unless and until legislators on both sides of the aisle take fiscal responsibility seriously.  And, the chances of that right now are low.

That’s our opinion, we welcome yours.   Our e-mail address is editorial@randyradio.com.

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