taylorengineer said:
Just asking a question. Don't want to start a flame war on this topic.
Have Cumulus stations become less of a service to the communities they are licensed to? Do they now deliver less than before they became Cumulus stations?
How about WKHX. I know they have cut back on live jocks, and I think that's a programming mistake, but......does the average bear really notice....or even care?
I always admired Susquahanna (sp?) as a company. The various radio presentations on 99.7 were always done well. Has the now Q100 become less of a desired product since Cumulus took over?
Another question. Do you have a "right" to expect either security, or happiness, at work? What does "the company" owe you for your time and talent? Can we think of other businesses, run by guys who keep telling us they know better, who exploit workers?
Wouldn't you have to agree that most large businesses are just as impersonal and cold blooded when it comes to job cuts?
Getting back to the thread topic......
News 106.7 is still a pretty decent audio product. I still like WSB for Mellish, Captn Herb,Slade, et.al but you must admit it's better than what most of us were expecting.
Wonder what the first monthly will be for them?
I think Cumulus is no exception, corporate consolidation is killing (or has already) killed radio. Thier cookie cutter product no longer has mass appeal. With the proliferation of on-demand and recorded digital delivery, their product is hardly relevant. Doing away with good, real local talent leaves nothing but a shell. A shell that will be, as Kansas says "Dust in the Wind" soon enough.
As far as being happy or having job security, no, no employer owes you anything other than a paycheck. That being said, those companies who invest in their employees are usually rewarded with loyalty and quality of work output is superior. Does it cost more? Of course. But this is the only way to keep the business cycle going and growing, and keep a healthy balance between good profits for the company. which equate to happy employees and this trickles down to happy customers.
We taught the Japanese this and they took it and ran with it. In America, we've done a 180, no longer is there a healthy set of checks and balances between the business community, the government, and the citizens. And if we don't decide to get back to that, well, have you been to Detroit lately? Do you want your town reduced to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDoUpXNmcZA
China is a great example of where we are headed if we don't see the writing on the wall. Ironic isn't it, how the "evil communist empire" is now our best ally supplying us with $300 flat screen TV's and making our best selling technology products (Iphone, Ipad, etc). But in the long run, what is the real cost of this unregulated free for all?
Radio is no exception. The FCC is nothing more than a ReMax agent of Radio spectrum. Gone are the bright technical minds. Gone are the regulators who had public interest as item 1 on every agenda. It's all about what we can sell to make a profit for our treasury and how many steak dinners can we get off our constituents.
In my business, public safety communications, we are under a spectrum robbery on part of congress and the FCC of epic proportions, brought upon by who, you guessed it- the telecom giants. They see us land mobile radio users as people who are too cheap to pony up and pay everytime we key a mike with our "ancient technology Book em Dano walkie talkies". Their plan is to make all of us subscribers on their insecure, inferior bloated public networks.
Is that what YOU want when you're house is on fire and our guys get SYSYEM BUSY TRY AGAIN. NO SVC. ERROR CALL FOR SERVICE. Yeah, that will work out real well won't it?
This country is in serious trouble. Now back to listening to boring corporate radio....
