Both Tom Tolbert and John Lund have been let go.
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So these are cost cutting cuts by Cumulus, and not a "going in a different direction" elimination?
I have a feeling we'll see more people being let go at Cumulus.
Cumulus Cuts Tom Tolbert & John Lund At KNBR
The cuts at Cumulus Media have arrived in the Bay Area as the company has cut ties with a pair
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So these are cost cutting cuts by Cumulus, and not a "going in a different direction" elimination?
I have a feeling we'll see more people being let go at Cumulus.
Street Novelist
Banned
Unbelievable! Cumulus really doesn't give a s h i t. Tom was the most popular personality they had left. I really see no reason to listen to KNBR anymore, except for Giants games. No Barbieri, Tolbert, Radnich, Paulie Mac...sad
There appears to be no end to the holiday season cost cutting festivities. Now Bonneville has joined in. Just sad, how so much of this is happening at this time of year.
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Antoine Davis Exits KBLX
After over 20 years across three stints, Antoine Davis has exited middays at Bonneville Adult R&B 102.9 KBLX San Francisco
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Bonneville used to have a really good reputation for treating their employees well, financially and respectfully. Has this changed because of a generational senior management change? More likely they're feeling the same financial pressures as the bigger consolidators and can't continue the way things have been.There appears to be no end to the holiday season cost cutting festivities. Now Bonneville has joined in. Just sad, how so much of this is happening at this time of year.
Antoine Davis Exits KBLX
After over 20 years across three stints, Antoine Davis has exited middays at Bonneville Adult R&B 102.9 KBLX San Francisco
Fourth quarter sales are way down for everybody. Even the Mormons. Not much retail money this year.
Townsquare is also laying people off. Expect to see more of this as the year ends.
The good part of working for big radio is they typically have good employee severance packages.
They are going to need it. For those being let go the chances of landing another job in radio seems to getting less hopeful everyday. And for many, it'll be time for a career change. Going back to school, learning new skills, and still trying to pay rent and bills while job hunting, takes time and money. The severance pay and unemployment benefits only last for so long. Not to mention the stress of an unknown future, especially if you're still raising a family. And, it's the holidays.. .
Tolbert is almost 60. I doubt he's going back to school or paying rent.
I get the impression you think my post was only in regards to Tom Tolbert....
It wasn't.
Neither was mine.
KGO was killed by the long-time station management failing to keep the station up with the times. The GM insisted in staying with the formula that worked in the 90’s even though the mood of San Francisco had changed. It was already in an irreversible decline before Cumulus took it over.
What you say is true, but irrelevant to my point. It way the way they did it. The way they did it. Unnecessary cruelty towards talent, in a number of departments, not just the talk hosts, though they managed to actually kill Gene Burns in the way they did it. They accomplished nothing but to destroy a reputation that was built over more than 4 decades, in a way that made it near impossible to ever right the ship again. (In contrast, compare the 2005 approach at WCBS-FM to the new management team's 2007 approach to restoring that station's goodwill.)
Cumulus is radio's version of Shiva, destroyer of worlds. (From Hindu mythology, IIRC.)
It also appealed to an increasingly aging audience and didn’t appeal to the types of people moving into the Bay Area riding the crest of the first tech wave. Attesting here from personal experience, after I moved to San Francisco toward the end of that decade, I tried listening to KGO. It came across to me as the ignorant bloviating to the ill-informed. I already could get that from Usenet or any of the early online forums.
Sometimes that's the only thing left. There are a lot of heritage radio stations in SF that went through the same experience.
The fact was they couldn't continue to pay staff based on 1990 ratings. Times change.
What happened at KNBR pales in comparison to what just went down at The Bone:
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Lamont & Tonelli Show Ends At 107.7 The Bone San Francisco
After 35 years in morning in the Bay Area, "The Lamont & Tonelli Show" is ending at Classic Rock "107.7
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Street Novelist
Banned
What a terrible week...
Then who else are you referring to? You only mentioned Tom Tolbert, why did you single him out as an example, and has he discussed his financial situation with you, and told you he doesn't have a mortgage or pay rent, or have a need for severance pay?
These are not people who make minimum wage or don't have other options. They're mostly all in AFTRA and are under contract.
They will receive severance packages as stipulated in their contracts, and the payments are usually based on years of service.
Does this apply to everyone let go by iHeart, Cumulus, Bonneville, and others?
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