Not at all, beause tbolt is a wiz and knows everything there is to know about media, and clearly has decades of experience to back that up.... right....
Ignorance is bliss, and for tbolt, arrogance too.
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Ignorance is bliss, and for tbolt, arrogance too.
No documentation. It’s common knowledge in the local broadcast scene that employees of Cumulus have not been asked, but told they were getting big pay-cuts. Not just once, either.
They also lost a number of great employees who were told they MUST get a Covid shot. Many did not, and some great ones left.
No one mentions THAT chaos.
What do these remarks add to the conversation? The moderator even likes it. That speaks volumes about David. Buddy's contributions largely consisted of rants against Nielsen and how they were cheating WECK.
Compelling stuff. Ad agencies have been buying TV and Radio combos for decades. Not exactly a new idea...
So be it indeed...😑
Then it's BS
As was the case with most people who work in confined areas. Nothing wrong with being safe. Several Cumulus hosts died from covid because they thought they were smart. Now they're dead.
Conservative talk show host Phil Valentine dies after battle with Covid-19, his employer says | CNN Business
Phil Valentine, a Nashville-based conservative radio talk show host who had questioned whether it was necessary for all people to get Covid-19 vaccines, died on Saturday, his employer, WWTN Radio, announced on Twitter. Valentine was 61 years old.
Factually speaking, only a handful of people were fired, and only two I know of sued the company.
Bitter, disgruntled people like you are not exactly a new idea either. Stay in Canada and keep dreaming about your vision for the most incredible station in the world, The Lake
Do you have any documentation if these fired people???? No? Then it’s BS…. right?Then it's BS
As was the case with most people who work in confined areas. Nothing wrong with being safe. Several Cumulus hosts died from covid because they thought they were smart. Now they're dead.
Conservative talk show host Phil Valentine dies after battle with Covid-19, his employer says | CNN Business
Phil Valentine, a Nashville-based conservative radio talk show host who had questioned whether it was necessary for all people to get Covid-19 vaccines, died on Saturday, his employer, WWTN Radio, announced on Twitter. Valentine was 61 years old.www.cnn.com
Factually speaking, only a handful of people were fired, and only two I know of sued the company.
I do. It was publicly reported when the people were fired, and when they sued.
Cumulus Hosts Hitting The Exits After Refusing Vaccine - Radio Ink
They can't say they weren't warned. As we reported back in August, Cumulus gave all employees until October 11th to get their COVID-19 vaccine or face termination. WYCD Detroit co-host Roxanne Steele was one of several employees told not to return to work after refusing to get vaccinated.
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I also have documentation on the morons who died because they thought they were smarter than doctors:
Anti-Vax Radio Hosts Keep Dying From COVID
Will the passing of on-air opponents of pandemic mitigation efforts have any effect on their audiences?
Please show me the documentation from the Buffalo cluster. As you said, if you don’t have the documentation, it’s BS.I do. It was publicly reported when the people were fired, and when they sued.
Cumulus Hosts Hitting The Exits After Refusing Vaccine - Radio Ink
They can't say they weren't warned. As we reported back in August, Cumulus gave all employees until October 11th to get their COVID-19 vaccine or face termination. WYCD Detroit co-host Roxanne Steele was one of several employees told not to return to work after refusing to get vaccinated.
I also have documentation on the morons who died because they thought they were smarter than doctors:
Anti-Vax Radio Hosts Keep Dying From COVID
Will the passing of on-air opponents of pandemic mitigation efforts have any effect on their audiences?www.vanityfair.com
also, please don’t share your incorrect political opinion on the vaccine. Go to Canada if you want to be told what to do by the government
I'm not aware of anyone fired in Buffalo. If there was, it would have been reported. If you have names, post them.
Keep in mind the vaccine was only required when the company mandated employees to return to the workplace. Prior to that, they didn't care. The company was liable for a safe workplace, and the best way to do that was by requiring employees who working in company offices to get vaccinated. This was only done to ensure everyone of a safe workplace. No other reason.
My understanding is that some employees in Buffalo chose to continue to work from home, in which case, they weren't required to be vaccinated.
The federal government didn't mandate the vaccine. Private companies did. In this country, private companies have the right to require certain things from employees.
There were Buffalo employees let go. They happen to be employed at WECK. Do your homework. Learn something
JP claims he wasn't fired. He says he left because they didn't allow him to work from home.
Are you saying he lied?
John “JP” Piccillo
After nearly three decades in middays at Cumulus Media classic rock “97 Rock” WGRF, John “JP” Piccillo crosses the street to Radio One Buffalo oldies “The Big WECK” WECK (1230),
And smaller stations always have issues with ratings as the samples are to small to make the results stable from book to book. Of course, every station that gets a bad book blames the rating company. They have been doing that for around 90 years.
In almost every agency, TV and radio buys are not made together. Where there are several/many people in the media department, radio and TV will usually have separate buyers and the coordination is done by the media director and the media planners, not the buyers.
Yes, in a very small agency or a one-person-shop, that can happen.
I spent two decades in a company with major TV and major radio in big markets, and there was no joint buying. Perhaps there was some coordination for client based promotions, but the buys were done by different people and at the station level, different sellers.
Not sure if Bolt can comprehend what I am saying. Maybe he uses French dialect being from Canada.
agencies buying tv and radio is not new. Agencies OWNING and running media companies don’t happen too often. That’s what Buddy does. He owns a radio station, 12 metro high traffic billboard locations, and is running a department for a local TV station….and his agency actually BUYS media for clients along with all creative. He also buys advertising on his media competitors, along with his media companies.
so bolt, as usual, your wrong. This IS a new idea. Now go learn something. It will do you good.
I'm still waiting for you to show me facts about any of the charges you made. You don't answer, but just change the subject.
Hmmm. Sounds familiar. Who else said that?
The other thing Buddy does is confuse "your" and "you're." Same with HitThePost.
you certainly are not getting documentation about WECK employees. Do the research yourself.
am I Buddy. ? Really? Still trying to figure that out? Maybe I am, but probably I’m not. Does it really matter. This should not be about Buddy. Like everyone says, “ Buddy gets way to much publicity on this forum.“ We all know the perhaps millions of people on here.
we are just talkin tv here, with some other broadcasting stuff mixed in.
Hire a stenographer and find out who I am. Let’s do this, you tell me your name, and I’ll tell you mine.
try to learn something. Perhaps hire Sherlock Holmes
You still haven't provided documentation on ANYTHING.
Please cease this line of argument. Whether you are or are not "Buddy" we need to stick to "broadcasting".
Any more posts on this topic of WECK turnover will just be deleted; a station owner's staff decisions... unless they violate wage, labor and EEO laws and regulations, are the station's own internal decisions.
This forum is not a court of law.
Agreed, BigA. We'll delete further posts on this "topic".
It's interesting that HitThePost's original writings did not match the "Buddy Style" (which does NOT inspire a song of the same title) the later argumentative ones definitely do... and it's interesting that they match the same "weekend moment" posting time we came to expect from Buddy.
The give-away was the comment on "a successful Key West radio station". There is no such thing.
David, I enjoy your assessments on radio stations but I have to respectfully disagree. ‘There is no such thing as a successful radio station in Key West’? How can you possibly know that without evaluation a P and L statement? Go to Zillow and search homes for Key West. Try to find one under a million. You cannot make this assumption as you do not know rev and expenses of the station.
from what I hear of a particular station in KW, owned by a particular person in Buffalo, I can tell you, that you are not correct.
I saw another post you wrote in a different market. It’s clear you do not think broadcast radio is a good business, in any market. In one comment you said you would not take a station in Wyoming even as a gift.
for the record, there are some radio stations whose owner shall not be named that are cash cows with net profits over 50%.
i think you are singling out certain bad owners, while not acknowledging the good owners.
any business can be bad if it’s not run correctly. However, if it is, that is another story. Radio is a total cash flow business
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