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BamaTX said:
I apologize if this has been discussed already, but why would Radio One retain some of the staff from Majic and then plug them into the KRNB lineup? It kind of defeats the purpose of buying up a successful station if you're just going to replace it with the staff of your second fiddle operation.
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To the victor goes the spoils. Radio One is in charge and wants their people in place. People that know what their expectations are. People they've hired and trained.
 
BamaTX said:
I apologize if this has been discussed already, but why would Radio One retain some of the staff from Majic and then plug them into the KRNB lineup? It kind of defeats the purpose of buying up a successful station if you're just going to replace it with the staff of your second fiddle operation.

I know there has to be some downsizing, but I'd thought the staff from Majic would've been the ones let go and KRNB the ones retained. I guess it comes down to salaries?
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Almost nobody keeps the staff they're acquiring when they buy the competition, even when the competition did better.

Salaries might have a little to do with it, but you usually keep the people you know. I remember when I worked for a company that acquired some stations in a new market, and most of the new employees did nothing but grumble and complain about how we did things differently and weren't as good as the previous owner. Needless to say, those people didn't last long, and we had intended to keep most of them. As one of my co-workers who went over there to help for a few weeks put it, "I've always looked down on companies like Clear Channel, who go in and fire an entire staff when they take over, but I now know why they do that!"
 
When I was doing some research on the history of Service Broadcasting, I found a blog post that made reference to how well their staff were paid. Granted, that blog post was from quite a while ago, but I have a feeling that salaries were very much a contributing factor in the changes.
 
tb_ said:
When I was doing some research on the history of Service Broadcasting, I found a blog post that made reference to how well their staff were paid. Granted, that blog post was from quite a while ago, but I have a feeling that salaries were very much a contributing factor in the changes.
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Could you share the post or where to view it?
 
lanceventa said:
To the victor goes the spoils.
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The real winner may actually be Hymen Childs. It's not the 9 figure payout he could've secured a couple of decades ago. But he no longer has the stress of managing radio stations in a slowly dying industry.
lanceventa said:
People that know what their expectations are.
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I guess their expectations arent very high. They better hope someone like iHeart doesn't get the itch to launch Urban AC on 97.1.
 
Honestly, I'm scratching my head on the way RO is handling this. Two Hip Hop stations, and a R&B station formerly known as "Smooth R&B", but you're still trying to keep that name.

Instead of putting MAJIC on a strong signal, you put it on a SLIGHTLY better signal than 94.5.

SMH...
 
BamaTX said:
I guess their expectations arent very high. They better hope someone like iHeart doesn't get the itch to launch Urban AC on 97.1.
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The only reason iHeart would flip something to Adult R&B would be if they had a financial gain to clear their Steve Harvey Morning Show, which IS STILL ON 105.7 so that will not be happening.

neosolbrudda said:
Honestly, I'm scratching my head on the way RO is handling this. Two Hip Hop stations, and a R&B station formerly known as "Smooth R&B", but you're still trying to keep that name.

Instead of putting MAJIC on a strong signal, you put it on a SLIGHTLY better signal than 94.5.

SMH...
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Similarly, by keeping both Beat and K104 Hip-Hop FOR NOW is to try to prevent iHeart from flipping something to Hip Hop where they definitely would love a Top 5 market clearance for The Breakfast Club should a hole exist. Both Beat and K104 have co-existed for nearly 30 years, what's another couple of weeks or months?
 
lanceventa said:
Similarly, by keeping both Beat and K104 Hip-Hop FOR NOW is to try to prevent iHeart from flipping something to Hip Hop where they definitely would love a Top 5 market clearance for The Breakfast Club should a hole exist. Both Beat and K104 have co-existed for nearly 30 years, what's another couple of weeks or months?
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If both stations are profitable, you could make a solid case for leaving them both alone, permanently. It locks up the demo.
 
neosolbrudda said:
So let me get this straight... Are you saying Hip Hop is a more successful format? I thought Urban AC was on the rise, and Hip Hop was on the decline.
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The Breakfast Club is one of, if not THE most valuable program in iHeart's portfolio at this moment. It's not about music here, its about building a brand.
 
lanceventa said:
The Breakfast Club is one of, if not THE most valuable program in iHeart's portfolio at this moment. It's not about music here, its about building a brand.
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So if iHeart wanted to go head to head with Urban One, flip one DFW stations and put the Breakfast Club on in the mornings and hire some of the personalities that got let go from Service/Radio One.
 
neosolbrudda said:
Honestly, I'm scratching my head on the way RO is handling this. Two Hip Hop stations, and a R&B station formerly known as "Smooth R&B", but you're still trying to keep that name.

Instead of putting MAJIC on a strong signal, you put it on a SLIGHTLY better signal than 94.5.

SMH...
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They bought out a superior product only to slap their inferior ingredients on it. Radio One needs to understand that this isn't the 2000s anymore. Just because you're the only Urban AC operation in town doesn't mean listeners will stick around. The adaptation of digital media by older adults has boomed in recent years and the modern listener has options now beyond the dial.
 


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