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changes at SummitMedia corporate

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gvilletower

Just saw in the trades that SummitMedia CEO David Dubose has "left" his position... after only a year in office that hardly sounds like it was a voluntary choice. Wonder if it was ratings or financial based?

Although there's been some strange programming decisions on WHZT & WJMZ lately, it seems like their recent books have been relatively strong- wonder what the rest of their markets are doing.

Guess at the end of the day though, no dollars coming in... means someone is going out right?
 
An Urban Oustage!

Well,...first off, as we can see, the Summit folk run things a little different, than the two's last owners, Cox. So, what is the crime one must commit, that readys the gallows. If any of us bet a bag of Bananas, and/or a bucket of Peanuts, it would lean on the smart side of either a money loss or not much of a money gain. New owners place heavy hitters in first, to make Big profit jumps, as soon as Humanly possible!

If you wear the suits, sway the swagger, and star daily in your own Pimptown Rap video,....then your rendered results fell short.

However, the guy might've went head-on with all he had, but it just wasn't fixable, and the slate of non-paid,....Mom & Pop collections doubled.

Up next! Well,....let see how the new dude....duz?
 
Scooter Lesley said:
Well,...first off, as we can see, the Summit folk run things a little different, than the two's last owners, Cox. So, what is the crime one must commit, that readys the gallows.
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David duBose was not just the CEO... he was the person who put the buy-out from Cox together and one of three founding shareholders.
 
carolinaradio said:
The Greenville market stations, at least Hot and X, have both been programming disasters since the sale by Cox.
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I don't know if I'd say X has been a programming disaster. When Cox had it, it was way too conservative with new music and was more active leaning.

Thankfully, that changed. But they have flopped around a lot. The biggest problem is and continues to be outside of currents. Kill recurrents to death and there old backlog lacks diversity with a lot of grunge and very little other 90s alternative hits. I don't understand the mentality. I've heard from inside that they're restricted in that area. But it kills them with repetitiveness.

Still, it's not a complete disaster. Lately they've changed things up a bit to skew newer all together. It sounds better but still repetitive.

I have to say, though, that they have put a lot more effort into X than Chuck, which I don't think has changed much at all since it debuted.

Despite poor ratings (which I still largely attribute to a bad signal), they keep plugging away at X. And even managed to bring the Black Keys back to town under a X98.5 "presents" that should give them some good exposure. I just wish they'd loosen the reigns and play a better mix of older alternative.
 
Disaster. lol. I'm curious to know which winning radio stations YOU program that would give you the credibility to call anything a "disaster".
 
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