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AMP & The FCC

Every employee who has been screwed over by AMP in the past should read this, then click on the link in the article to file a complaint with the FCC. Pay back!
 
If they had used a music consultant from NYC or potted up the bird, this would not have happened.
Music today is a mine field. Whoops!

Yes! Candlebox does shout "F You" in that song, and it should be banned or edited. But, you
might have to be mediitating on the song to catch it.

You are much more likely to catch the F word in your car if you drive with the windows down.
There are 50,000 Indiana teens driving around with 1,000 watt amps bumping to Hip Hop that
uses that word every ten seconds.

I don't like that word in common usage. It makes you look cheap or low class. But if I can't tolerate
hearing it, I better keep my car out of traffic in the garage, and me indoors. It's a modern world..
Just great!

The best way to make sure violations don't get aired is, don't hire jocks. Use a consultant,
or pot up the bird.
 
Timewarp said:
If they had used a music consultant from NYC or potted up the bird, this would not have happened.
Music today is a mine field. Whoops!

Yes! Candlebox does shout "F You" in that song, and it should be banned or edited. But, you
might have to be mediitating on the song to catch it.

You are much more likely to catch the F word in your car if you drive with the windows down.
There are 50,000 Indiana teens driving around with 1,000 watt amps bumping to Hip Hop that
uses that word every ten seconds.

I don't like that word in common usage. It makes you look cheap or low class. But if I can't tolerate
hearing it, I better keep my car out of traffic in the garage, and me indoors. It's a modern world..
Just great!

The best way to make sure violations don't get aired is, don't hire jocks. Use a consultant,
or pot up the bird.
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And if the local landfill's aroma blows to your house, don't complain to local officials, just sit in your garage with the door closed. It's there, might as well accept it! Based on your above post, that would make sense.

A simple solution? How about hiring a PD that actually KNOWS the music he/she is hired to program. If you program modern/classic rock, and you don't know Candlebox has an F-bomb in the song, WHY are you programming that station/format?

Because you really weren't qualified for the job, you just knew how to (insert kiss up word here) to an owner who ALSO has no clue what he's doing.
 
U2CCU - You made the best point possible. Isnt that what they call Karma?
 
cold_coffee said:
Good reason to use the hotline? Huh, Indy?
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Successful OWNERS have shown that if you hire QUALIFIED DJ's (not off the 'past their prime' or 'intern' list) and possibly an EXPERIENCED program director, you might not have had to change formats. And you wouldn't have to hotline your help like third-graders.
 
The truth is the jock likely knew what he was doing. It wasn't his station to risk. He didn't care.
That's why hotlines rule! Sometimes you use the hotline to fire someone.
 
cold_coffee said:
The truth is the jock likely knew what he was doing. It wasn't his station to risk. He didn't care.
That's why hotlines rule! Sometimes you use the hotline to fire someone.
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Once again, poor management. Why didn't you (who admits to hotlining jocks) hire the right person in the first place? Instead of the cheapest talent available? Or was this your PD hiring 'lesser quality' talent so she doesn't have to worry about someone leapfrogging her and getting her job?

And WHY are jocks allowed to add/delete/manipulate YOUR playlist?

If your jocks are so incompetent that have to hotline them, AND you have to FIRE them over the phone (very professional I might add, but no surprise) WHY would you allow them ADD songs to your rotation? Lock them out! And if the songs are ALREADY there, THAT is your inexperienced PD's fault.

If you ARE an owner, and you hire people like this ... well, i guess you deserve the ranking you get.

ALL YOU OWNERS THAT ARE FAILING NEED TO STOP BLAMING THE JOCKS! They don't write the lame liners, pick the same redundant music, or have any control over marketing/advertising (or serious lack of).
 
There are very few left for your AMP bashing party. This is due to so many many firings at the competitin.
People once sat on here and bad mouthed Art while their voice tracks played. Now they are looking for
jobs at Walmart.
 
cold_coffee said:
There are very few left for your AMP bashing party. This is due to so many many firings at the competitin.
People once sat on here and bad mouthed Art while their voice tracks played. Now they are looking for
jobs at Walmart.
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or, like all other washed up jocks, they're being hired at klu.
 
1) Art ain't my money daddy. Never has been.
2) My responses on generated threads are never meant to bash any person or corporation engaged in the business. They are my observations based on a decade of having worked in the business and two decades of not working in the business but still observing the marketplace and the players.
3) There have been numerous postings regarding AMP on this board by persons that appear to have (or have had) intimate knowledge of said company. I'd say many of them, 'know what they are talking about.' I can only observe how AMP 'positions' themselves in the marketplace based on the fact that I live in one of the cities that they serve and can sample their product 24/7. That said, in my opinion, AMP has a lot of external issues. Many of the externals seem to reflect on internal issues. Critical personal observations are not necessarily bashing.
4) I'll continue to 'chime in' should a particular AMP thread strike a passionate chord within.

Regards,

RememberWHEN
 
Which one of AMP's competitors have had "so many many firings"? I'm not trying to be a smart ass...I really don't know.
 
Well, Schurz did let go of its news department (IIRC one person) about a year ago.

Far as I know, there haven't been any at Fed Med or Oasis Ft. Wayne.
 
cold_coffee said:
You guys work in the electronics department? How are HD radio sales this week?
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My guess would be they are as bad as the HD programming on local stations.

The local HD Disco programming isn't incentive enough to invest in a soon-to-be obsolete product.
 
radioindy said:
My guess would be they are as bad as the HD programming on local stations.

The local HD Disco programming isn't incentive enough to invest in a soon-to-be obsolete product.
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Whatever happened to the whole HD radio thing? I remember a couple of stations making a big huge deal about it. I remember being at work and hearing WKLU's owner break in on the air and talk about how great it was going to be. They used to read promos almost every hour about it too. Other stations ran some ads as well.

Did they scrap the idea and just leave it to die? Or is the industry still trying to make it work? And where do you even get an HD radio? You don't hear stores promoting them a while bunch.
 
Wal-mart.....electronics dept - funny/sad/true/reality

I-R why so bitter try reprogramming get back on bike
 
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