Sources tell me that Brian bell is out at wror after 27 years
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Beasley swinging the ax
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@bostonradio re Beasley cuts:
"Told locally, good guy Brian “Lungboy” Bell, longtime morning show producer at ROR 105.7 exits. At the Sports Hub 98-5, nighttime cohost Christian Arcand also leaves the Adam Jones Show."
"Told locally, good guy Brian “Lungboy” Bell, longtime morning show producer at ROR 105.7 exits. At the Sports Hub 98-5, nighttime cohost Christian Arcand also leaves the Adam Jones Show."
@bostonradio "More impact even on management side: ROR 105.7/Rock 92.9 PD Ken West gets the hammer."
Facebook post noted dead air on ROR for awhile today but came back on
Facebook post noted dead air on ROR for awhile today but came back on
Mike Lockhart co-producer of T&R is also out. Which is just wild given T&R's success.
@radioinsight: "Just heard one of the Beasley stations affected by layoffs run a TOH music bed with nobody talking for 30 seconds due to the jock being let go."
Johnathan Weir out as AM Drive co-host on WKLB, Will Ayla Brown have a job to come back from after maternity leave?
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A lot of my good friends lost their jobs today. I'm sick. But I fear not for them, because they're smart, kind, and have a lot to offer.
When you say "recession", do you mean advertisers are abandoning Radio for other options? Advertisers certainly weigh cost vs ROI.
People who work in Radio need a sense of Gallows Humour. Getting fired has never been a matter of "If" but "When". I knew a guy who was told by the GM "It's time to walk the plank" on his final day. It's a Pirate industry indeed without sentimentality...
No, I'm saying advertising budgets slashed across the board.
As Mark Thompson formerly at KGO said yesterday, this is affecting all ad-supported media.
What I'm seeing here is Beasley is mostly eliminating duplication, as in co-hosts and co-producers.
Radio is an adjunct to the entertainment business. Movies flop, and talent becomes tainted. TV shows don't get ratings and are cancelled.
So, in larger competitive markets turnover is fierce even at the most successful stations. In a faster moving society, things just happen faster than ever before.
And radio has one of the best ROI figures of all, and it is easily traceable. But if you look at Facebook's parent, Meta, recent quarterly report and Q3 projections, we see similar declines in new media.
Network and broadcast TV is off, Cable channels are off, and all forms of Internet advertising are off as companies realize that inflation is causing discretionary dollars to disappear.
At the same time, subscription prices are going up. Sirius just raised its prices. Royalties have just increased by 15%. People are getting squeezed.
radioinsight: "Julie Devereaux departs middays at WROR after 22 years. Devereaux has bounced between middays and afternoons during her tenure, which followed eight years at then AAA 92.9 WBOS and Rock 93.7 WCGY
So will middays be going the autopilot jukebox route?
The WROR website lists On-Air as only "Bob and LBF in the morning" (used to be Bob, Brian and LBF) and Jaybeau Jones. Julie Devereaux is not listed at all. Seems Julie has been laid off yet again. She was laid off several years ago at WROR (previous ownership) and they left that midday shift unoccupied for a very long time.
Edit: the above 2 comments (from raccoonradio and CT) were posted while I was posting.
Edit: the above 2 comments (from raccoonradio and CT) were posted while I was posting.
And the Saudis and their buddies have slashed production, so gasoline is probably going to returning to $4 and up within a few weeks. The president has voiced strong disapproval and pleaded with OPEC+ to reconsider and with Big Oil to keep its price increases to a minimum, as the timing could not be worse with midterms a month away and many Americans likely to vote on pocketbook issues rather than reproductive rights. Neither of the villains in this scenario will listen, Or they will listen, but laugh and ignore.
Unfortunately the economic polices and decisions of this administration has brought us to where we are now. Millions and millions of Americans are struggling to make ends meet. The Fed will raise interest rates another 75 points which will cause more pressure. If people don’t have money to spend and business profits are eroding, costs must be cut. Hopefully the midterm elections may help turn the economy around slowly before we go into a full blown recession. Many of the talented people being let go have contracts so they will be paid out.
Inflation can only be caused by the governement. The expansion of the money supply. The Rising intrest rates will just make matters worse IMO. Not even a full tank of oil for my house costed like $400. Things has to be getting bad for WROR to be laying people off
While most everyone in this business knows it can be a transient one and job security can be nearly nonexistent, what's struck me about these layoffs in particular is the length of time some of these folks have been in their present positions. I mean, one would expect that someone who'd been around as long as they have would've made contacts and can move on, but in the other respect, if you've been in a gig for 20 years or longer, you also have to ask your self where you go from there..
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Ken West - Been at WROR since 2002 - 20 years
Julie D. - 22 years and she was at hear previous gig for 8
Brian Bell - 27 years
Mason Dixon - Worked in that market, and at his present station, on/off since 1978
More Names From The Beasley Media Layoffs As Additional Markets Affected
The cuts at Beasley Media Group have continued into this week with Detroit and Las Vegas among the markets where
radioinsight.com
Julie D. - 22 years and she was at hear previous gig for 8
Brian Bell - 27 years
Mason Dixon - Worked in that market, and at his present station, on/off since 1978
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