-from one of the producers at KFI
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Bertolucci Out at KFI
- Thread starter HerbNero
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-from one of the producers at KFI
Wow, wonder what she’ll do now.
Whoever is to replace her will have some very big shoes to fill. With KFI's phenomenal success, it is incumbent that the next PD try to even outperform her, if that is possible.
Day to day programming decisions are now going to be made at the regional/national level at iHeart. In other words no more PD's at the cluster. It's part of a major restructuring in progress.
I hope it fails it's a crappy decision to save money 💰 💰 going the cheap way always doesn't work. I hope they learn a lesson from this
And in music formats, that makes sense. But at a talk station that isn't primarily syndicated stuff? Where pep-talks, what-the-hells and everything in between are SO critical?
Like I said it's a crappy decision. It's a possibility that the music formats Will be like jukeboxes with no dj
Pittman:
radioink.com
Pittman on iHeart Layoffs: 'There's Not a Slot For Everybody' - Radio Ink
During the company's Q3 earnings call, iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman addressed recent layoffs affecting managers and air talent.
radioink.com
The local talk at KFI is really a function of the host, not the PD. The PD does scheduling. You can attribute the Sunday afternoon show with college kids to the local PD. But that decision doesn't have to be made in LA,
Set up lunch with Robin Bertolucci and tell her that. She'll love it.
I'm sure she would. Won't change her situation.
Somebody made the comment on RadioInk that Lowry Mays is rolling in his grave. Lowry and his family caused this situation.
The point is your ignorance of what Robin Bertolucci did every day at KFI. You have way undersold one of the best talk radio PDs in America.
Reminder: I'm not her boss.
We knew.
Her boss knew what she did every day, and made this decision. As far as we know, they're also keeping the local talk show hosts.
Nobody is saying this happened because she was bad at her job.
We know what Pittman said about it.
No, but YOU said:
(screen goes all wavy, harp music plays---forgive me, Flip, but somehow I think you'll approve this time):
So she tells them what to say? They're just scripted automatons who just say what they're told?
It's not that no one will be running programming at KFI. Just not her.
You know, BigA, for years here I’ve thought you worked in the industry. But if that or “scheduling” is what you think a major market talk PD—-especially Robin Bertolucci—-does, then I need to reassess that assumption.
Has Bob Pittman ever suffered any compensation consequences for Iheart's debt being so big?
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