The announcement was delayed due to contract issues.
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99 X Is Back
- Thread starter davideduardo
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If Steve Craig is coming to 99X that is not surprising Because I believe his no compete clause is now up.
So either he will most likely jump on the morning show or host afternoons or possibly even middays.
If it is Steve, I am sure Steve had a lawyer read Cox's contract. Always have a lawyer read those things. GA. is a "right to work state". I understand there are some big differences between here and Ohio
Looks like they’re making the announcement Monday morning at 7:20.
All my money on Steve coming back. Makes too much sense. Put him back in his rightful midday slot and bring back his noon feature. I dont Know how many people still care but it is fun to watch from a distance.
That would be money well spent. Announcement made: Steve's back, both on middays and as PD.
Here's the story from All Access:
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I’m still lost as to why they parted ways with their initial PD a few months into the format changeHere's the story from All Access:
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He resigned. He has a new job lined up but is sitting out a noncompete.
I believe he left at the end of March, which would mean he left four or five months after the flip.
He has said he has another position but can't start until his noncompete runs out.
While I'm sure he wouldn't be talking about it publicly if he had been fired, I find his explanation credible because:
1) Cumulus had no performance reason for firing him; 99X was up over the previous format.
2) I would think we would've heard something by now if something scandalous had gone on at Cumulus.
1) Cumulus had no performance reason for firing him; 99X was up over the previous format.
2) I would think we would've heard something by now if something scandalous had gone on at Cumulus.
Five bucks says Brian Phillips had way more to do with the decision to flip to 99X than Axel.
Axel had multiple consecutive years of mediocre to outright terrible ratings under his belt as PD of the trainwreck known as Rock 100.5.
I suspect the company did not want to give him the chance to ruin 99X. Steve Craig is a superior programmer. The moment his departure from WSRV was announced, I predicted he'd be moving to 99X.
I didn't say the flip was Axel's decision. He was the person running the day-to-day operations. Given that flips are risky and require anticipating a loss of money for a couple years, corporate was almost certainly involved in the change from Rock 100.5 to 99X. At minimum, the increased amount of spending at the local level is going to require corporate to sign off.
No argument regarding Rock 100.5. If Cumulus wanted to fire him for performance, it could've (and should've) done so when it made the flip. Companies rarely fire people months later when the numbers are up.
I don't know enough about Steve and his programming abilities, but the last thing you do when you launch a new format is have someone you think is incompetent running the place when you pull the trigger. That's a surefire disaster! You want anyone who fits that profile out immediately. The company that let 900 people go in a single afternoon shouldn't have any problem making that happen. It could've let plenty of other people run the station on an interim basis while it tried to figure out who should be running it. Again, if Axel did get fired, he almost certainly wouldn't tell us, but I don't see much data to support that conclusion, at least not a few months after his departure.
It’s funny how Leslie this morning mentioned the fact that she was the boss and now Steve is the boss. I truly wish Axel had stayed. That would have made the 99X experience complete. I am very happy with the current lineup. To me it’s quite magical. Being able to relive the past is really awesome. I hope they can hold up in the ratings and shoot this station way up to the sky. I love the music mix right now and I find it very hard to change the station.
KROQ plays more than 400 different songs in a week, so they definitely play more than that in a month.
WNNX plays 750 unique songs in a week. But it's a different format than KROQ. WNNX is classic alternative.
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