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G: No. We have promoted the local businesses so hard and heavy anyway. We really have.

P: Maybe you can tell me how you've changed over the years with new technology. How
 has that enabled you to operate more efficiently?

G: When something new was on that drawing board, we wanted to be the first to get it. We
 [were not] always the first to get it, but we've always tried our best to stay, I guess they
 use the word, cutting-edge. In 1982, I got to hearing about this LP TV, and I didn't even
 know what it stood for (low power television). They had to retrain me to operate one of
 these remote controls. So I'm not technically knowledgeable. But the first thing I did was
 applied for the TV license, for a television station. Somebody asked me why, I said,
 about like the mountain climber. You know, why'd you climb the mountain? Because the
 mountain was there. So, in 1983, we put our television, we owned a local television
 station, and we put it on the air. That works hand-in-hand with our newspaper because
 we were already in the news-gathering business. I realized back then they [were] talking
 about computers and Internets and stuff that I just wasn't familiar with. One day at the
 Florida Press convention, one of these farsighted individuals was talking about one day
 we'll be reading our news off the pages of a TV set-type deal, I guess maybe not
 knowing the terminology because it probably wasn't invented at the time. He was talking
 about Internet type stuff. And I read in the business pages about this low power
 television, community television. So we became the second in the nation and the first in
 the state of Florida to have a TV station here, and we still operate it.

P: What do you mainly have on the station, and how many hours do you operate it?

G: We operate twenty-four-seven, 168 hours a week, around the clock, twenty-four hours a
 day. We've got several things right not that's never been tried anywhere else in the
 country that we think will work, and we're getting ready to [implement] that. My son
 William resigned after thirteen years with the law enforcement. He's now come on board
 with me full-time. My oldest son Harvey, [who is] in charge of the emergency medicine
 for the hospital, works with us on our computers. All three of my children live on our
 farm, so it's all-in-the-family-type deal. Right now, we're running video classified. Any
 time of the day or night, you can turn on and we've got these ads up there where you can
 buy and sell and trade and swap.

P: So it's twenty-four hour ads?

G: Yes, sir.

P: You don't have any programming?

G: Yes, sir. We've got it set up so that on our Intemet-our Internet comes in on those same
 deals right there-when they're working on the computer, we--not the Internet, it would