 Although newspaper-owned stations of this era commonly did not pay their performers, they could compensate them with free publicity, which as Rex White at the "Detroit News" station WWJ later noted, was always favorable, and sometimes lavish, "or we would have no show the next night".Representative "Paducah Evening Sun" headlines from January 1923 include "Concerts Continue to Bring Praises for Sun Station", "Impressive are Music Programs by Sun's Radio", and "Artists Keep Up Splendid Quality of WIAR Concerts".In the mid-January, the station went off the air for a day in order to make improvements.