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Krth 101 personality changes - weekends purged?

Dave Randall had been doing weekends and fill-in work on KRTH since 1994. Bruce Chandler joined KRTH in 1996 and commuted from Ventura. Aimerito had been at KRTH since 2003. Christian Wheel had been at KRTH since 2010. Chandler has been in radio since 1967 and Aimerito has had a 41-year career. Did KRTH simply want younger DJs? Maybe they should be reminded of what happened when KFWB fired Joe Yocam in 1965.
 
And KRTH has just hired another incidental. Joe Rosati is the midday DJ at San Diego's KEGY, Energy 103.7, and he'll commute to Los Angeles so he can do weekends on KRTH. Rosati was best known as "Joey Kidd" when he worked at WHTZ in New York. He also jocked at New York stations WHTR, WFLY, WKKF and at WKQI in Detroit and WQSX in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
 
eriedj said:
WMCE-FM is in my market. I believe the shifts are voicetracked, yet the talent is local. I've heard too many unfamiliar titles which is why I don't listen much.
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I believe most of the jocks broadcast directly from the WMCE studio maybe with the exception of the overnight jock. I grew up in the Midwest (Chicago) and listened to stations considered Rock/Top 40
like WLS-AM, WCFL-AM and WDHF-FM. Even though I stream it, WMCE A/F plays music close to the stations that I mentioned. Now if you're looking to hear heavy metal, jazz, punk or classical music, then there will be a lot of unfamiliar titles you will hear on WMCE.
 
955wdhf said:
I believe most of the jocks broadcast directly from the WMCE studio maybe with the exception of the overnight jock. I grew up in the Midwest (Chicago) and listened to stations considered Rock/Top 40
like WLS-AM, WCFL-AM and WDHF-FM. Even though I stream it, WMCE A/F plays music close to the stations that I mentioned. Now if you're looking to hear heavy metal, jazz, punk or classical music, then there will be a lot of unfamiliar titles you will hear on WMCE.
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Could you just Private Message your Erie friend and stop with the off topic comments in this compromised thread?
 
Highly doubtful that the KRTH DJ's let go on the weekend made minimum wage. How much of a savings $$$ will KRTH have? Are the recently hired weekend DJ's going to be live or voicetracked?
 
eriedj said:
Highly doubtful that the KRTH DJ's let go on the weekend made minimum wage. How much of a savings $$$ will KRTH have?
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ErieDJ: Union scale is not the same as minimum wage...far from it. I don't know what scale in L.A. is these days, but I expect it's a few hundred dollars per air shift. As Mad Man noted, replacing them changes the minimum call, and allows KRTH to fill an additional weekend airshift for the same money they were paying before. That might be how they're compensating Scott Shannon, or it could be going somewhere else.
 
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Forgive me for thinking from a small market perspective vs. union scale for what KRTH would pay weekenders. In my 23 years in the business, I became way too familiar with minimum wage. ;)
 
michael hagerty said:
ErieDJ: Union scale is not the same as minimum wage...far from it. I don't know what scale in L.A. is these days, but I expect it's a few hundred dollars per air shift. As Mad Man noted, replacing them changes the minimum call, and allows KRTH to fill an additional weekend airshift for the same money they were paying before. That might be how they're compensating Scott Shannon, or it could be going somewhere else.
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You are correct in the general range for a single shift. It can vary per the AFTRA arrangement with each station in such things as minimum number of hours that have to be paid to constitute a shift... for example, someone working a 4-hour shift might have to be paid for a minimum of 6 scale hours.
 
michael hagerty said:
Boomers were the first generation to sink, en masse, into nostalgia in their 30s.
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If what you say is true it was because the quality of the music was at its greatest in their youth. At no other time, exclusive of the War Years, has music been as good and revered by the audience at large.
 
landtuna said:
At no other time, exclusive of the War Years, has music been as good and revered by the audience at large...
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... within the older half of the boomer generation.
 
DavidEduardo said:


You are correct in the general range for a single shift. It can vary per the AFTRA arrangement with each station in such things as minimum number of hours that have to be paid to constitute a shift... for example, someone working a 4-hour shift might have to be paid for a minimum of 6 scale hours.
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Exactly David, the 4 out the door had a minimum call of 7 which is now 5 for the fresh replacements. Adds up to about 96 scale hours a month. Those bean counters continuously improving things.
 
And there will always be those of us who want to hear unfamiliar titles. We derive little pleasure from hearing the same few songs over and over and over, day after day after day. KRTH doesn't just play familiar songs, they play the same few several times a day, every day. I enjoy XM. I hate KRTH. I wasn't going to complain again but K.M. goaded me. :)

Michael, in 1965 Joe Yocam had been at KFWB for 23 years and. at 47, was the station's oldest DJ. He was fired in March and replaced by Don MacKinnon. In June, MacKinnon was driving on Pacific Coast Highway, headed to his home in Malibu. He drove off the road, went over a cliff and fell 75 feet to his death. If I'm not mistaken, Hal Pickens took over the noon-to-3 slot. Meanwhile, Yocam and AFTRA had filed an "age discrimination" grievance against KFWB. After a lot of legal wrangling, Yocam was re-hired and given his old time slot. He stayed until KFWB switched to a news format in March of 1968. By the way, in 1965 the president of AFTRA's Los Angeles local was.....Joe Yocam.
 
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Michael, in 1965 Joe Yocam had been at KFWB for 23 years and. at 47, was the station's oldest DJ. He was fired in March and replaced by Don MacKinnon. In June, MacKinnon was driving on Pacific Coast Highway, headed to his home in Malibu. He drove off the road, went over a cliff and fell 75 feet to his death. If I'm not mistaken, Hal Pickens took over the noon-to-3 slot. Meanwhile, Yocam and AFTRA had filed an "age discrimination" grievance against KFWB. After a lot of legal wrangling, Yocam was re-hired and given his old time slot. He stayed until KFWB switched to a news format in March of 1968. By the way, in 1965 the president of AFTRA's Los Angeles local was.....Joe Yocam.
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Oh, that. Well, the story ended up being a bit different....and totally unlike the current KRTH situation. You see, nobody told the truth at first. KFWB said they were okay letting Yocam go because he was a freelancer, Joe countered that they were engaging in age discrimination, but the payoff turned out to be a whole 'nother thing...and one KFWB had no choice but to fold on, not only bringing Joe back to his timeslot, but paying damages:


http://books.google.com/books?id=WikEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=joe+yocam+kfwb+aftra&source=bl&ots=5ZCZ4w2msa&sig=8GqPkSAWjtA-YT7_YmlGKbF4jqo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tZxBVPGJGeeIigKRwoCABQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=joe%20yocam%20kfwb%20aftra&f=false
 
Looks like there might be technical difficulties with the link, but it goes to Google Books' archive of Billboard, in which rests the November 13, 1965 issue. Turns out KFWB blew Joe out as retaliation for his participation in a 1961 strike (broadcast management can have long memories). They had to give him back his show and pay him $15,000 (a shade over $113,000 in today's money).
 
Do some of you folks have lives, that you listen to the radio 22 hours a day? KRTH is going to do what works, not start playing "Dominique" to please a handful of geeks. Spotify people.
 
Even if I was doing weekends at KRTH for a year, 5 years, 10 years or whatever and let go, I'm sure I'd land solidly on my feet somewhere. There was a time that having a station like KRTH on a resume would help make that resume solid.

Being an east coaster all of my life I'm not familiar with any of these former air talents. Are any of them also making money with voiceovers somewhere?
 
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