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4 Local Clear Channel employees to be let go!

So, is it next week, the ides or the bottom of the month, before the four are revealed? Both us Think Tank Members, as well as the Koolaid Drinkers all have to collectively wait. Talent is irrelevant, and a large paycheck will only seal your fate, as it speeds your doom. Regarding MY, and that Cold Dead Horse of a format...you might see that change if any of the stuborn ones behind it ankle. That format is still in practice, due to ego. It has flopped, they can't fix it, nor change it because it would be amitting defeat.
 
Sorry, Scoot, but June doesn't have the Ides. The Ides only belong to months with 31 days in them.

But I know what you meant. Just dropping some knowledge.
 
I really shouldn't want to know so quickly,...just hoping that it's not someone that I know, but heck,...I know just about everyone. Either way, it's the loss of their job,...in a very difficult time. Don't they get paid every two weeks?
Yep,...The Ides Of March: "I'm Your Veee-hicle, Baby!".
Summers, I owe you another beer.
Yes, Historically, the 15th is a great day to poke holes in your ruler!
Yep,...if done correctly, it'll fit in your three-ring binder, just like that zip-up pencil pouch.
 
Scooter Lesley said:
Hey Mr. Prez, do you rerally want to create jobs, before you exit office, and lay the ground for a Demo succeeder?
All FM's with full staffs, within ninety days: 5-On Air(dayparts),
1-News Director, 1-PD, 1-Engineer, 1-GM, 1-Traffic/Copy, and
1-Receptionist. Now, GO,...and work for your paycheck!
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Let's also hire some switchboard operators, copy boys, typists and elevator operators.
 
I was sitting here reading the post when I came to Scooter's list, boy it has been a looooong time since I have a station with a real staff list of people and not much doubling up on jobs but don't forget your sales staff.
 
Well,...in my list of correctly staffed Radio, I did leave out a few items:
Interns: I usually forwarded the ugly girl apps to our competision, followed by a rumor one day later, not to hire them, as they knew too much about our station...worked every time. The hot ones were hired, but never paid. I always hired one male stud muffin, that had his smarts about the business. I made so much money then, I paid him under the table. He had my list of dailys, and was in charge of the girls. Trust me, at age 22, I had dealt him quite a good hand.
Sales: Male or Female, they had to look like a catalog, and work like a crook...steal the pens right off the client's desk. ...and last but not least, fixtures: Restrooms: seven feet out the back door of the Live studio. A Kitchenette: Full-size fridge, sink, micro-toaster, and a Bunn double burner, copper waterline, coffee monster,...and two water fountains, as Sales Weezels are not allowed to drink from...
The Great Spring of Programming.
 
Scoot, amazingly i found something that has been part of radio since its inception, and sometimes little used by some "people" it a tuning dial, hence if you dont like a station and want to pick at it all the time, wuhla,,,,, just change the dial, been working great for almost a 100 years, so Scoot use that scanner on the dail and find something good so you want get all worked up about one station,,

blessings
 
Jpdjsc,...You entertain yourself, and bore me to the point of cheap scotch,...even in a clean glass. Why do you assume that I listen to any of this Horse Manure, that Ent & CC alleged as Radio??
I recharge my WMA player overnight,...outta self-defense! Thumb drives work great for the car. I, Myself, and A-Plenty of others don't listen. This explains why they have only a 5-share. I just hate to see the Biz that I love so much...SUCK SO BAD!
 
Scooter Lesley said:
I just hate to see the Biz that I love so much...SUCK SO BAD!
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That's like using CD sales figures to talk about music. How come there hasn't been a Diamond-selling CD since the 90s? Must be that the music released over the past 15 years sucks so bad.
 
Well Scoot who appointed you the radio police, say something good about something , go do something besides complain about what stations you don't listen to

Face it radio is not what it was and never will be,
 
In response to the last post: Think Tank Members, what we have here is a "Doomsday Dennis", a "Douting Thomas", a "Visionless Victor"...someone that does not realize that Bad Radio...is Fixable!
...and yes, I am The Cheeeeeeef of The Radio Police! It's always left up to me to..point it out, and I have the Testicular Fortitude..to do so!
EARTH is on, WCCP was sold, and WRIX will follow later. Things are changing, and the first Big FM to see the Big picture will get the trailblazer award. Running the stations the way they were ran, before the born rich wanted in. Face to face with the owners: This is the minimum cost to correctly run a station. BAD RADIO IS...FIXABLE!
 
Blog states cuts approved by the board and delayed 30 days or so, honchos moving to NYC starting with John Hogan according to previous post here. Blog says 20 million to upgrade NY offices for management as well.

Don't shoot the messenger. I hope these cuts never come but this guy has some sort of inside info and apparently had the last two cuts right as well. We'll see. Hope this helps some folks prepare.
 
Well,...Gents,...if we had to play pin the tail on the Donkey,...It'd be some time after the 4th of July.......adding a twisted meaning to "Independence". Hopefully, some in the danger zone....have been looking. So, how do they run their peathrasher with only one or two, per station? WSSL stands to loose the most, but the cuts are not necessarily divided equally between the three in question: WSSL, WESC & WMYI. Whatever the slash,...this saddens us all.
 
This is just a thought about what i believe CC could resort to to save face. Could be wrong. If they used a couple office execs to double up positions as board sitters plus have an engineer and/or assistant on standby, they could pipe everything in on the computer or satellite, running the same program say for instance on all their country stations (VT's same on all same format stations across the US) and call it the Clear Channel Network. This might save them, but would in time be the ultimate death of corporate radio. I see them tanking in time and selling out with the clusters being broken up and sold off individually. Basically the same as when Mike Willis bought 93.1 away from I believe Inner City. You can't keep using some of your powerhouse stations to hold the rest up. It will fold over a period of time. My honest opinion is that Clear Channel has outgrown it's boundaries and got too proud and comfortable. Keep overfeeding anything it's bound to eventually die from being pushed beyond it's limits.
 
VAPMAN said:
running the same program say for instance on all their country stations (VT's same on all same format stations across the US) and call it the Clear Channel Network.
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Seems to be working OK for Sirius, doesn't it? That's how radio worked in the 1930s, and they called it the Golden Age of Radio.
 
TheBigA said:
VAPMAN said:
running the same program say for instance on all their country stations (VT's same on all same format stations across the US) and call it the Clear Channel Network.
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Seems to be working OK for Sirius, doesn't it? That's how radio worked in the 1930s, and they called it the Golden Age of Radio.
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The Golden Age was so called because of the freedom and creativity used in a new fledgling medium.
It was NOT because of the lazy business model where quality was sacrificed to save a buck.

That said - always love your cheery, optimistic posts BigA
 
The BigA is correct. In the "Golden Age" of radio, radio stations were run like TV stations are run today. It was mostly all network programming with some local cutaways.

Once recorded music hit and network television came along, that is when stations went wholly local because it was cheap(er) and easy to do so. Who wanted to go through the expense of writing and casting a full daily schedule of soap operas and dramas and documentaries when you could pay someone to spin 42-48 minutes of music an hour?

Look, the ship has sailed. 1996 was 17 years ago. The clock is not going to go in reverse. Although it probably has stopped for Scooter, who last worked in radio 25 years ago.

Either you accept the fact that radio has changed and is always changing and evolve and change with it or be the radio equivalent of The Simpsons "The Alien."
 
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