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Jade Donovan on Apple Radio

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Apple Music has rebranded Beats as Apple Music Radio. It's a more traditional radio service, with DJs. One of the DJs is former WPLJ host Jayde Donovan:

http://www.insideradio.com/free/app...cle_bfb19c42-e16e-11ea-b1d6-6be167e10cb0.html

A number of familiar radio industry personalities have been tapped to host shows on the new channels, including Jayde Donovan, formerly part of the morning team at defunct hot AC WPLJ New York; NASH morning personality Ty Bentli; and Bree Wagner, who has been on-air with iHeartMedia in Austin and San Antonio.
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I sure hope Jayde doesn't do any "wacky" contests like she did back in Sacramento. That one didn't "End" all that well, did it?
 
It's called "failing up". Seems to happen a lot in radio, the industry always takes the high road.

You'd think with so many talented people having been downsized from their broadcasting jobs, no employer should need to hire someone who cost her former employer millions and forfeiture of their broadcast license, but what do I know?

Next up, probably Craig Carton just out of prison. I'm sure no one else is available.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
Next up, probably Craig Carton just out of prison. I'm sure no one else is available.
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It's already being discussed elsewhere.

https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/craig-carton-released-early-from-prison-with-a-wfan-return-realistic/

The thing is that it's easier selling a known talent that someone who is unknown.

In Jayde's case, she was downsized from WPLJ. It wasn't her fault that she's out of work, and she was never charged with a crime in the KDND case. Bad judgement is all that was claimed. That could apply to lots of radio people.
 
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TheBigA said:
In Jayde's case, she was downsized from WPLJ. It wasn't her fault that she's out of work, and she was never charged with a crime in the KDND case. Bad judgement is all that was claimed. That could apply to lots of radio people.
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I never thought she deserved her gig in NYC in the first place, that's what I mean by "failing up". I heard her on PLJ, she sounded competent but there are plenty of jocks in the business who could have done just just as well, who probably would have loved to have that NYC gig. And she wasn't a known talent. She even changed her name.

No she wasn't charged but of course the family won a multimillion dollar lawsuit against Entercom, that's the point. Lawyers know where the money is, they don't go after the individual. No one can deny what happened though, the facts are what they are and Entercom had to give up its license, the ultimate penalty for a broadcaster. It's amazing to me she moved on and up from that so effortlessly. As far as I know she never really paid any price for her role in that incident and seems to have only been rewarded in her subsequent career.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
the facts are what they are and Entercom had to give up its license, the ultimate penalty for a broadcaster.
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The FACT is they didn't HAVE to give up the license. It was a matter of choice during their purchase of CBS Radio. It wasn't required by the FCC or the judge in the case.

On February 2, 2017, Entercom announced its intent to acquire CBS Radio. The next day, Entercom announced that KDND would cease operations effective February 8, and that its license would be terminated and returned to the FCC. Entercom stated that "it is in the company's best interests to voluntarily turn in the KDND license to facilitate the timely FCC approvals for the planned combination with CBS Radio." The then-chief of enforcement for the FCC stated to the Sacramento Bee that the motive was financial, and that Entercom would have likely have fought had a merger not been planned.
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You're parroting the P.R. No the FCC didn't revoke the KDND license but Entercom was forced to give it up in the face of legal pressure after the Wii stunt if they wanted to see their CBS merger move forward. Bottom line is the Wii stunt cost them that license no matter how they spun it.
 
No i didn't. Why do you always have to argue about everything and have the last word, Mister 35,000 posts? My original statement was Entercom "had to give up its license, the ultimate penalty for a broadcaster." If it weren't for the Wii contest they would have just had to spin it off like every other merger, not surrender it.
 
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No i didn't. Why do you always have to argue about everything and have the last word
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You said something was a fact, and it wasn't. The minute you're confronted with documented facts, you attack me.

They didn't have to give up the license. They chose to. They didn't have to buy CBS either.

The court case was over and settled a long time before they turned in the license.

None of this has anything to do with Jayde's new job with Apple.
 
If Entercom had not "voluntarily" surrendered the license, the FCC had already ordered a hearing into whether the KDND license should be renewed, and media watchdog groups were challenging not just KDND but all six of Entercom's Sacramento licenses. There's a very good chance that Entercom would have not only lost the KDND license but the entire cluster over the incident. They just never let it get to that point.
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-16-153A1_Rcd.pdf

Again, no consequences for the talent other than losing their jobs, a short term inconvenience for them as it turns out. Or at least for Trish/Jayde -- I never heard where the others ended up.
 
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Entercom had already surrendered the license by then, and Stoltz was just one of petitioners.
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The point is the FCC rejected Stoltz's claims. He and others have continued to challenge Entercom's other licenses even after surrendering the KDND license, and all of the challenges have been rejected. Here's a story from a few months ago:

http://www.insideradio.com/free/ed-...cle_353b8d5a-24d6-11e7-ae1a-77cc068cea84.html

Most recently Stoltz himself had his own stations taken away from him due to unpaid music royalties:

https://www.rbr.com/ascap-ed-stolz/
 
Theater of My Mind said:
No i didn't. Why do you always have to argue about everything and have the last word, Mister 35,000 posts? My original statement was Entercom "had to give up its license, the ultimate penalty for a broadcaster." If it weren't for the Wii contest they would have just had to spin it off like every other merger, not surrender it.
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I concur with BigA here. Entercom did not have to "give up the license".

They chose to do so, to both close a case that cast doubts on their responsibility as a licensee and to allow the partly closed door to the CBS transaction to be fully opened.

They chose to surrender the license voluntarily to facilitate a bigger transaction with the FCC. It's that simple.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
No one can deny what happened though, the facts are what they are and Entercom had to give up its license, the ultimate penalty for a broadcaster. It's amazing to me she moved on and up from that so effortlessly. As far as I know she never really paid any price for her role in that incident and seems to have only been rewarded in her subsequent career.
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The fact is that Entercom did not have to give up its license; it did so voluntarily to facilitate the CBS deal.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
You're parroting the P.R. No the FCC didn't revoke the KDND license but Entercom was forced to give it up in the face of legal pressure after the Wii stunt if they wanted to see their CBS merger move forward. Bottom line is the Wii stunt cost them that license no matter how they spun it.
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They could have pursued the KDND case further, but it would have taken time and could have obstructed the CBS deal. So Entercom weighed the costs and selected the most advantageous alternative.
 
TheBigA said:
The point is the FCC rejected Stoltz's claims. He and others have continued to challenge Entercom's other licenses even after surrendering the KDND license, and all of the challenges have been rejected. Here's a story from a few months ago:

Most recently Stoltz himself had his own stations taken away from him due to unpaid music royalties:
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Stolz has a long history of litigation and policy disagreements on various fronts. He seems to actually enjoy jousting with windmills.
 
So this is the New York board and my original point was about Jayde because she has a history in the New York market. I don't think it's worth re-litigating KDND here since it's not a New York station and there's a thread on the Sacramento board about it. I made my point, and TheBigA got the last word as usual (though DavidEduardo got a bunch of replies in while I was writing this).

Just for the record I don't know Jayde and I have no personal ax to grind with her or Apple. In my opinion she's lucky, that's pretty much it.
 
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