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WBZ-AM Employees must be worried

Seems more like an effort to show iHR that when they do take over, listeners expect the same kind of station CBS was running (instead of cutting staffers and on air talent) rather than trying to halt the sale. They appeal to advertisers, etc.:"We urge you to make it clear to iHeartMedia that you will not tolerate the destruction of an important New England institution."

And they'll turn elsewhere if WBZ is gutted. There's RKO but that too is going to iHeart, and then there's public radio.
 
raccoonradio said:
Seems more like an effort to show iHR that when they do take over, listeners expect the same kind of station CBS was running (instead of cutting staffers and on air talent) rather than trying to halt the sale.
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But they're jumping to conclusions based on incorrect assumptions.
 
Oh well

TheBigA said:
Of course, that assumes they own an FM radio, and are willing to listen to those liberals at NPR.
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Tried to be positive in my previous posts about the iHeart thing but they have set off a firestorm so I'm just gearing up to listen to something else if they blow up the station. NPR is not my thing at all so I will find something else to do - maybe use the XM radio more.

I think if they cut all ties with channel 4 and the sharing between the two sides that will be a fairly large blow. I doubt they are planning to staff up more reporters to replace content from the TV side.

I guess if anything it may go out with a bang caused by iHeart executives egos rather than a long, slow whimper (if you believe AM radio is terminal). The whole thing about shifting the station to their "platform" is pretty petty and says it all. They should just take over, let it be, learn the operation and then adjust.

New England may be a bit fussier about their radio and it being local than other iHeart markets so coming in with a heavy hand is not going to get them far.

I still hold out some hope this is more of a PR and/or union negotiating misstep by iHeart and they really are not planning to gut out the station.

http://savewbz1030.com

#SaveWBZ1030
 
There would be nothing stopping iHeart from making an arrangement with WBZ-TV (though I have a hunch the union wouldn't like it).
 
RadioPatrol said:
http://savewbz1030.com/

Apparently there's a website that's attempting to keep Iheart from taking over WBZ radio. I say nothing is going to happen but WBZ having an affiliation change plus the KFBK scheduling model coming to Boston.

Also some of WBZ's former fans will just move to WBUR, WGBH, podcasts plus the live feed of CBS Radio News on tune in app.
I don't see this petition going anywhere.
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I'm standing with WBZ Newsradio 1030! Please join me in saving the station!
 
blackgold said:
I'm standing with WBZ Newsradio 1030! Please join me in saving the station!
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Where has the idea that the station needs "saving" coming from. This seems all based on the announcement that employees who wish to work for the new owner must reapply. That is the generally normal procedure when a station is sold via an asset sale. It does not mean that anything is changing, just that a new owner is doing what is legally required.
 
Not to tell tales out of school, but being on the 'acquired' side of a merger or sale is often unpleasant. And that applies to any business. If the folks sweating their jobs at 'BZ want to 'blame' someone for their predicament, CBS would seem to be a pretty logical candidate.
 
WBZ's SAG-AFTRA union members met the other day with iHeart officials at the latter's HQ.The union's twitter account has a pic of many of their members there, looked like Dan Rea and Bradley Jay among them.

https://twitter.com/sagaftra/status/928031406571249664

In some places like Richmond VA, iHeart stations are getting Entercom as new owners via swap (WRVA with Jeff Katz among them).In Pittsburgh Ent. is taking control of CBS' KDKA news and sports stations on AM and FM. Here it was iHeart getting stations via trade (saves on tax money) rather than the rumored Hubbard or Cox.
 
john garrett said:
Isn't Kuhner on Coast to Coast from 12 to 3p. After all, his ratings are through the roof. It is impossible to get through to his blazing phone lines. Everyone at the State House and the Trump administration, hangs on his every word. I remember two years ago when he announced his was going national and took congratulatory calls for the next two weeks.
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lol. this.

K0000nah always has his prestigious position as President of the Edmund Burke Institute for American Renewal (http://www.edmundburkeinstitute.org/) to fall back on if things get lean.
 
June of 2015: WMEX 1510 boasts of new additions Joe Ligotti and Michele McPhee.Days later, Joe fills in for Michele who'd had a DUI incident.Joe is gone by July 10.Late June, iHR converts 1430 into new home for Rush and Sean as Kuhner takes his place on RKO at noon and yes, says he plans to go national.
Kuhner could well do something like weekends on RKO--in the Bill Kelly Sat morning brokered slot.
 
TSBench said:
Not to tell tales out of school, but being on the 'acquired' side of a merger or sale is often unpleasant. And that applies to any business. If the folks sweating their jobs at 'BZ want to 'blame' someone for their predicament, CBS would seem to be a pretty logical candidate.
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Exactly. A lot of people blamed Citadel for the problems at KGO in San Francisco. The real problem at that station was the previous owners, Disney, didn't do any future planning for the day when their on air staff was over 65. Just consider if the Red Sox still tried to win games with the same team they had 30 years ago. You get the picture. At some point, you have to allow people to retire, and start phasing in new players.
 
raccoonradio said:
In Pittsburgh Ent. is taking control of CBS' KDKA news and sports stations on AM and FM.
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Ugh.
So does that mean WBZ-AM will go back to 24h IBOC (CBS has been shutting it off at night to protect adjacent KDKAʼs signal)?!? :( ... :mad:
 
TheBigA said:
Exactly. A lot of people blamed Citadel for the problems at KGO in San Francisco. The real problem at that station was the previous owners, Disney, didn't do any future planning for the day when their on air staff was over 65. Just consider if the Red Sox still tried to win games with the same team they had 30 years ago. You get the picture. At some point, you have to allow people to retire, and start phasing in new players.
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I remember that around that time Disney was putting fill in hosts for two of KGO Talent, Pete Wilson and Bernie Ward. One Pete Wilson was deceased and Bernie Ward was detained on having pictures of Child rape at the time. Citadel had to put in new talent but it was too little too late because KQED-FM took over as the number 1 talk station in San Francisco for the past decade and KCBS under CBS ownership put a simulcast of am 740 on 106.9fm and was viable ever since.
 
Uncle Kaimbridge said:
Ugh.
So does that mean WBZ-AM will go back to 24h IBOC (CBS has been shutting it off at night to protect adjacent KDKAʼs signal)?!? :( ... :mad:
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As best I can tell, Entercom has no AM HD stations. More likely the shut them all off, but that is just my personal speculation.
 
To put the WBZ situation in context, for the past two years, CBS News Radio in New York has seen the "retirement" of a number of senior announcers, reporters, writers, and producers. All of this was in advance of the sale to Entercom. If any staffing changes take place as a result of this sale, it's likely that they would have happened anyway if the station had still been owned by CBS.
 
DavidEduardo said:


As best I can tell, Entercom has no AM HD stations. More likely the shut them all off, but that is just my personal speculation.
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Right, except that KDKA will be Entercom, while WBZ-AM will be iHeart! :rolleyes:
 
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