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IHM RIFs hit YTown & Canton

ProgrammingVet

ProgrammingVet

Radioinsight posted they can't keep up with the RIFs... just gotta keep checking.

Allegedly all local on air talent in Youngstown and Canton clusters - gone.

WKDD/WRQK's Tony McGinty posted on FB he's gone. He also VTd overnights on WMMS.

No word on any CLE exits.

radioinsight.com

Comprehensive List Of Those Affected By iHeartMedia’s Cuts This Week

iHeartMedia initiated a programming realignment today as it intends to scale its "new tech capabilities over the last several years".
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IHeart is just continuing the process it proclaimed over 30 years ago, to turn their radio chain into a national franchise like McDonalds where no matter what town you were in the menu at their stations will look, sound and taste the same because it will be the same shows with local commercials ladelled in, sold and produced and scheduled from big hubs miles away.
And the audience won't really care. Do they mind that Jimmy Kimmel isn't broadcasting from their hometown? Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern proved listeners would choose what interests them, local or not. Truly they're returning to radio's roots when stations carried mostly network programmming and today's tech can make them unmanned robo stations. And they are convinced this is the way to success, however they define it.
 
... He is going solo on 98.1.

Mix 98.9 picks up Murphy Sam & Jodi (not a shocker) for mornings.

Rock 106.9 dumps Stansbury for Rover.

I dont think any other Canton/Youngstown station had anyone local left other than these morning shows. Did they?
 
Les Talk said:
Mix 98.9 picks up Murphy Sam & Jodi (not a shocker) for mornings.

I am hard beat to find a more boring morning show than that one. I thought a morning show was supposed to be fun, entertaining, and get you ready to get up and go. They make me want to go back to sleep. It's the show that a vanilla ice cream would complain about it being TOO vanilla.
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Iheart releases press release: "We've run out of people to fire so we're branching out. All manatees on the west coast of Florida.....gone as of today. Dolphins will be thinned out and relocated to the Black Sea. Monkeys in all zoos will be reduced to one per cage and the ones flinging feces are to be terminated immediately......feces flinging is management's job!"
 
I don't understand the rush in these markets to replace these longtime legacy hosts with shows like Murphy, Sam & Jodi the very next day. Just run music in the morning until Monday.
 
Gary Rivers gone from Mix 98.9, replaced by Murphy, Sam & Jodi.
Stansbury out at Rock 107/RQK, replaced by Rover.
 
Les Talk said:
... He is going solo on 98.1.

Mix 98.9 picks up Murphy Sam & Jodi (not a shocker) for mornings.

Rock 106.9 dumps Stansbury for Rover.

I dont think any other Canton/Youngstown station had anyone local left other than these morning shows. Did they?
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I suppose that the next step is to eliminate the studios from these local stations, sell most of the equipment and originate the morning show (presuming that they have a local morning show) at a recording studio, restaurant or even somebody's house.
 
radiofollower said:
I suppose that the next step is to eliminate the studios from these local stations, sell most of the equipment and originate the morning show (presuming that they have a local morning show) at a recording studio, restaurant or even somebody's house.
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I believe that is implied in the buzzword filled almost unintelligible Iheart news release about the cuts and changes coming.
They must be looking at the chains of robo stations and thinking how that might work for them. And also the potential for AI replacing people in all aspects of the operations.
Perhaps this was inevitable. The industry will be radically changed. Again.
 
vw86 said:
These midsize markets all were completely gutted of any local talent. Akron/Canton, Youngstown, Erie, PA, Allentown, etc.

Except Keith Kennedy.
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There really should just be one voice for all of IHeartradio. Every format. Every market. And we all know who that should be!
 
snowdog88 said:
IHM = iHeart Media

RIF = ?
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RIF = Reduction In Force

A reduction in force (RIF) is an employer’s permanent elimination of positions, typically driven by budget cuts, restructuring, or a strategic shift that makes certain roles unnecessary. The defining feature that separates a RIF from other workforce changes is finality: the job itself disappears from the organization, not just the person filling it.
 
Santa fe said:
I believe that is implied in the buzzword filled almost unintelligible Iheart news release about the cuts and changes coming.
They must be looking at the chains of robo stations and thinking how that might work for them. And also the potential for AI replacing people in all aspects of the operations.
Perhaps this was inevitable. The industry will be radically changed. Again.
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But "guaranteed human" right?? They are a complete joke.
 
radiofollower said:
I suppose that the next step is to eliminate the studios from these local stations, sell most of the equipment and originate the morning show (presuming that they have a local morning show) at a recording studio, restaurant or even somebody's house.
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They already have a fairly developed well oiled "cloud" system called 'iheartzettacloud" in place to really make it happen fairly easily. In fact that's how most iHeart talent track their 'localized' shifts now for other stations it would not be too difficult to virtualize (if its not already) the physical playout and just put a end point at the transmitter site to feed into the audio processing as the Zetta product supports it.
 


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