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AUDACY LAYOFFS

Gregg. said:
Rick Dayton, afternoon news anchor at KDKA Pittsburgh... Clearly KDKA will still have newscasts in the afternoon. So where's the savings here?
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Rick was a talk show host, not a newscaster. He was also probably close to retirement, with close to 40 years in broadcasting.

Gregg. said:
Mike Kadlick, WEEI-FM Boston beat reporter for New England Patriots... Won't a Boston all-sports station still have a Patriots beat reporter? Maybe the station will send a part time stringer for games and news events?
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I wouldn't assume they would have a beat reporter. I would wager there are fewer than 10 beat reporters who work for sportsradio stations across the whole country. Sports radio these days is about hot takes, not reporting.

Gregg. said:
Chuck Taylor, WRCH Hartford AC station afternoon DJ.... Surely WRCH, always rated #1 in Hartford, will still have an afternoon DJ. So where's the savings here?
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It appears David Simpson is taking over the shift. I think he's been with WCBS-FM but previously worked in Hartford. If he's with CBS-FM, then it will be voicetracked from NYC.

Gregg. said:
KCBS San Francisco All-News, three reporters are dismissed... So how do you have an all-news station with three fewer reporters?
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Ask KNWN 1000, where they laid off all the reporters last year.
 
This isn't the San Francisco Bay Area board so I will be brief:
Gregg. said:
KCBS San Francisco All-News, three reporters are dismissed... So how do you have an all-news station with three fewer reporters?
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PTBoardOp93 said:
Ask KNWN 1000, where they laid off all the reporters last year.
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Reports are that KCBS laid off a fill-in anchor, a weekend reporter, and an overnight traffic reporter. This is not the same as "laying off three reporters". My take on it: https://www.radiodiscussions.com/threads/kcbs-layoffs.771326/
 
Barry said:
Hopefully the reports that Christine Richie was laid off from WNEW 102.7 are incorrect.
She is still listed as the evening personality on the station's website. And checking out the station, I hear a female DJ. Nice that they have some commercial-free hours at night; not just mornings.
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CTListener said:
One salary is the savings. No one is going to abandon WRCH because one of its bland DJs is gone. The station's entire purpose is to present inoffensive music with as little gab as possible, especially during the work day.
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There are a lot of angry comments on Joan Dylan's Facebook page that state they're not longer going to listen to Lite. - Perhaps she'll end up at WZBG in Litchfield County once the sale to Full Power Radio closes. Outside of Morning Drive and Afternoon Drive they run music off the satellite. Maybe FPR will add some local jocks even if they are voicetracked.

As for WRCH my 70-something year old mother hasn't listened to the station regularly in years - Christmas music time not withstanding because they play a lot of newer music she doesn't like. She largely listens to 96.1 Kool Radio or The River 105.9 now. Occasionally she'll also listen to WATR 97.7, but as is with Lite 100.5 they play some new music she doesn't like. Outside of Morning Drive and a few local talk shows during midday they run satellite fed music.
 
If Christine is no longer with WNEW 102.7, they should update their website. She still appears as an on air host.
 
Barry said:
While WNEW 102.7 is now automated between 7 pm, and their morning show, IHeart just hired a late night personality for Z100. Kiana Singh, formerly with WBLI 106.1, will host 2-6 AM, according to RadioInsight.
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It's all about labor agreements. If Z100 could automate overnights, it would. But good for iHeart for the positive spin!!
 
Barry said:
RadioInsight states that Christine Richie, the evening personality on WNEW 102.7 has been laid off. She had been with the station for around 11 years.
It would not be surprising if evenings on the station will now be with someone piped in from somewhere else. I believe all the other A/C stations in the area run syndicated or automated programming during evenings.
Even Lite FM has a syndicated show (Delilah) during evenings.

Audacy Layoffs
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If you look at The New 102.7’s Website Christine still works there 7pm-12AM. I knows she Doesn’t anymore but they haven’t updated their On Air Show/Host section since October 1 2020
 
Always interest said:
If you look at The New 102.7’s Website Christine still works there 7pm-12AM. I knows she Doesn’t anymore but they haven’t updated their On Air Show/Host section since October 1 2020
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It took Audacy some time after the layoffs to get the websites updated, but she's not on there and hasn't been for a while.
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Loverofradio said:
But in a world where DJs are around the clock now on Apple/Spotify (even though it’s AI), does radio need to invest more to keep up with the personalities on other apps?
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Spotify has no DJs. They experimented with a morning show using the users' playlists. Apple tried DJs but I'm not aware they still do.
 
gr8oldies said:
Spotify has no DJs. They experimented with a morning show using the users' playlists. Apple tried DJs but I'm not aware they still do.
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Apple still has DJs on its streaming radio channels (Music 1, Music Hits, Music Country). I have no idea if they actually do live broadcasts or just record them like a podcast with their interviews, talk bits, and song intros which are then mixed in with the songs they play. I know Zane Lowe is still their centerpiece for Music 1, as he has been since Apple acquired Beats in 2014. I have zero idea about how popular the service is since it's really just used as a loss leader to try and entice people to subscribe to the Apple Music service.

As for someone who mentioned SiriusXM, they're starting to get the message as a number of channels now have "Music Only" companions on the SXM app where it's just music without the DJs talking in between. The classic rock stations (Classic Vinyl and Classic Rewind) both offer this. Sometimes you really do just want to hear music and not DJs doing the same shtick they've been doing since 1978.
 
storm2k said:
As for someone who mentioned SiriusXM, they're starting to get the message as a number of channels now have "Music Only" companions on the SXM app where it's just music without the DJs talking in between. The classic rock stations (Classic Vinyl and Classic Rewind) both offer this. Sometimes you really do just want to hear music and not DJs doing the same shtick they've been doing since 1978.
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Yep its Great !!
 
I believe another reason SiriusXm maintains music-only versions of their channels is that they provide background audio for many businesses.
 
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