At least two employees at Alpha Grays Harbor stations have been let go, effective today, according to their Facebook posts. Kyle Pauley, long-time News Director, and Phil Luce, morning talent on Alpha's Country station, both posted that today was their last day. Both had over 20 years at the Alpha-owned properties in Aberdeen.
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Washington Alpha Layoffs in Aberdeen
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What would that be like a 40% staffing cut?
Phones killing the news radio star. Or maybe the aging population. Or the saturation of Seattle morning newscasts on TV (KONG/KCPQ). Or all three!
I expect KXXK's format will go satellite any week now. Bill, is your Timber Country station local, or LRN, or Real Country? (We have a Real Country format on KDZY 98.3 in McCall, Superstar Country).
I expect KXXK's format will go satellite any week now. Bill, is your Timber Country station local, or LRN, or Real Country? (We have a Real Country format on KDZY 98.3 in McCall, Superstar Country).
And... it appears that KXXK is now with Westwood One satellite... so far, they've been off air a lot since the switch. Two long periods today alone. Several hours one day last week. My Timber Country is LRN Classic Country with a local talk show in the morning. Of course I have silence sense on all my stations. They apparently don't.
To be fair, I still use WWO for my Hot Country 104.1/93.1/106.1. My flagship... KSWW - Sunny 102.1 has the area's only live and local morning show, with AJ.
To be fair, I still use WWO for my Hot Country 104.1/93.1/106.1. My flagship... KSWW - Sunny 102.1 has the area's only live and local morning show, with AJ.
Just look across the country at the announcement at the loss of legacy news radio WCBS in market 1.
You can add to your limited list: social media and YouTube,
Not sure how local TV newscasts that are also suffering from the loss of younger viewers effect radio in Seattle/Tacoma. It's the loss of listeners/viewers, and changes in advertising. Both national and local-direct.
No, they're airing WWO Mainstream Country, we have WWO Hot Country. But... we air Big D & Bubba in the morning, and "Carsen" for five hours after that. While there aren't two satellite options, WWO has several Country options.
The best option IMHO is not satellite, but LRN, which provides the songs for our local hard drive, Music Master logs, voice tracks, and the option to be live or local voice tracks as well. No satellite, no sunfades. Plus we've found LRN to be very sensitive and responsive to issues that may come up.
LRN is getting more popular with the small markets. Westwood One owns a monopoly on the satellite market nowadays. It was just about 10 years ago when there were two satellite choices - Cumulus/Citadel and Dial Global. I remember the Citadel/ABC adult contemporary format had a wider playlist compared to WW1. And Jones had the sole satellite option for smooth jazz too. That's what KZAL in Manson used to air.
WW1 runs a whole bunch of formats in a box. I think they have 6 or 7 different country formats. So while the number of companies has shrunk, the total number of different formats is still significant.
Keeping that many formats helps them because it allows two competitors in a market like Aberdeen to both use WW1 formats without actually running the same programming, where 20 years ago one competitor would have run ABC and one group WW1 and one group Jones.
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