A ? about NEB

[OM]

NorthEast Broadcasting...Bob Rowe...Steven Silberberg is/are.........

 

[Big Mustafa]

examples of how to mismanage a radio station.

 

[K-Tel]

Really good at talking and not good at doing very much. Leave them a lone and you'll be a happy radio guy.

 

[MassMusicMan]

I'm going to be the contrarian here (what's new?)

...good broadcasters in my book for broadcasting high school teams in Chittenden County. Thanks to them, this BHS alum living in Boston was able to hear the Vermont DII football championship online, as should be the case in 2006. For years, the high school radio sports listings in the Free Press were limited to WSNO's coverage of Spaulding, and WFAD's coverage of Middlebury, while nobody in CC aired high school games. Thank you ESPN 1390 for being the first station in town to realize that people want to hear high school sports.

Of course, their stations are mostly cookie-cutter, and their websites are horrible, but that's for a different thread.

 

[amfmxm]

Silberberg owns the company; he's "The Decider." Rowe is the Burlington market manager for them, isn't he? They were looking for a CEO a month or two ago and I gave it serious thought for about 20 seconds (they do have some good sticks, and most of them fall into the "underdeveloped" category) but then thought better of it. Life is too short.

 

[soxnut]

I'm going to be the contrarian here (what's new?)

...good broadcasters in my book for broadcasting high school teams in Chittenden County. Thanks to them, this BHS alum living in Boston was able to hear the Vermont DII football championship online, as should be the case in 2006. For years, the high school radio sports listings in the Free Press were limited to WSNO's coverage of Spaulding, and WFAD's coverage of Middlebury, while nobody in CC aired high school games. Thank you ESPN 1390 for being the first station in town to realize that people want to hear high school sports.

Of course, their stations are mostly cookie-cutter, and their websites are horrible, but that's for a different thread.

ESPN 1390 has done a very good job of broadcasting and covering high school games in the area. If I am not mistaken, they also cover the Vermont Ice Storm and Saint Michael's College as well. They seem to take initiative when it comes to expanding their reach with local sports and I hope it continues to improve. It will be interesting to see what they do with football this season.

 

[MassMusicMan]

I look forward to their Friday night broadcasts, and hope that they carry some games on Saturday afternoons as well instead of grabbing some irrelevant college game off the bird.

 

[deanyoungblood]

I applaud NEC for their commitment to carry HS sports in Chittenden County, but they need to find a better transmission method for some of those games. A weak cell phone signal cutting out does not make for a quality broadcast. WVMT and the Cats Basketball Network always seem to have a Zepher or Marti feed for all games.

 

[MassMusicMan]

No kidding, right? We had a Marti shot back when I was at WVMT. How cheap is NEB?

 

[edradio]

I'll answer this question first by saying, I'm answering as a former NEB employee. Steven should not own radio stations. He should stick with the cows he has on his ranch and call it a day. He has no clue how to manage people, at all, and cuts any $ corner he can. Bob Rowe is somebody who probably knew what he was doing once upon a time. He never grew with the industry. He's an overly corny, Ned Flanders, sort of person. He's a backstabber who gives false promises, not only to his staff, but to his CLIENTS. He is impossible to trust, and a truly bad person, period. It amazes me that NEB has lasted as long as it has. Call it luck, call it whatever you want. I know its because a select few people who work there truly care about the property they work for and work their asses off the make it work. Not for the money, not to please management, and certainly not because they have great managers. They work their asses off because they take great pride in their work, and in many cases, take great pride in a heritage radio station like The Point, or because they want to be part of a baby like Alice or MP. People like John Hosford who would go to the ends of the earth to keep a station alive. People like Scott McKenzie, who I wasn't a major fan of, but who would work 15 hour days just to try to keep Alice alive. Unsung hero's in Middlebury and St. Albans who worked to keep small community AM radio going, only to lose their jobs when cost cutting meant ESPN Radio. I've said it on this board several times. NEB = Amazing People, Awful Management

 

[jackandcoke]

I'll answer this question first by saying, I'm answering as a former NEB employee. Steven should not own radio stations. He should stick with the cows he has on his ranch and call it a day. He has no clue how to manage people, at all, and cuts any $ corner he can. Bob Rowe is somebody who probably knew what he was doing once upon a time. He never grew with the industry. He's an overly corny, Ned Flanders, sort of person. He's a backstabber who gives false promises, not only to his staff, but to his CLIENTS. He is impossible to trust, and a truly bad person, period. It amazes me that NEB has lasted as long as it has. Call it luck, call it whatever you want. I know its because a select few people who work there truly care about the property they work for and work their asses off the make it work. Not for the money, not to please management, and certainly not because they have great managers. They work their asses off because they take great pride in their work, and in many cases, take great pride in a heritage radio station like The Point, or because they want to be part of a baby like Alice or MP. People like John Hosford who would go to the ends of the earth to keep a station alive. People like Scott McKenzie, who I wasn't a major fan of, but who would work 15 hour days just to try to keep Alice alive. Unsung hero's in Middlebury and St. Albans who worked to keep small community AM radio going, only to lose their jobs when cost cutting meant ESPN Radio. I've said it on this board several times. NEB = Amazing People, Awful Management

Nicely said. Confirmed much of what I surmised but never knew for certain. I came very close to joining NEB some years ago, but resisted the temptation because of discomfort with Bob & Steven. Very odd ducks. Guess I dodged a bullet.

 

[edradio]

That you did, that you did. It's like the old line says, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," or something like that...