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b101 B gone w/ the personallities

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xtreme11678

has anyone seen or heard the current line up
530-noon tc and friends..(im guessing half the shift is tracked)
noon- 6pm ed mcmann (tracked)
6-midnight ton st. john (witch im sure at this point is tracked)

so does anyone know if this is permant line up of temparrory and just how much of it is actually live
 
I hear that's the final solution and that the whole thing is voicetracked after 10a. What an embarassment! This is Providence, not Utica, NY. Clear Channel is a joke, and that cluster is a prime example of what's wrong with the industry today.
 
Are you serious????....Your right it IS an embarrasment. But when the ratings come out and they do ok, this is what happens...."hey, we did decent even though we are tracked all day"......thats how they have to think....but they should be thinking, we could have done great if we did it right....that station is dead in my eyes if that is the case
 
So does B101 now has more live people on weekends than weekdays? If it's true, that's insane. It's hard to believe that just maybe 5-6 years ago, they were live all the time weekdays (yes, including OVERNIGHTS!). I wish some local person/group could break at least one of the stations out of the cluster. It'd be nice to have a non-country, good sounding, local/live station in Providence again!
 
I wouldn't be surprised to see weekenders eventually eliminated.Why even bother?
That place is pathetic.They're nothing more than what you hear with piped in music in a retail establishment.
They haven't really bled the life out of WHJY yet and Coast never really had much life to bleed out of.B101 is a disaster but yes people will listen which sends a signal to the air people that they don't matter to management or listeners.
What is needed is for sponsors to know what a shoddy product they're buying but sponsors and agencies don't use that kind of determination when deciding where to place ads.Quality isn't an issue if the buffoons who listen keep listening.
I wonder if Rick Everett knew when he went there last year that he would eventually just be a henchman programming in a building that keeps getting more and more empty.Must be a challenging job.I can't imagine anyone on Oxford who isn't looking for real radio work.
But who needs B101 when there's Cool102 anyway?Too bad Providence listeners are like the blind and will automatically listen to what's more local even though B101 isn't local unless they're sending some hack out on a poorly done remote.
And with all the talk about HJY raking in the bucks and Coast selling out every month I can't believe B101 isn't doing well in sales.So why the cutbacks?Can't they keep salespeople?
Clear Channel needs to be given 30 days to get out of town.Why the hell doesn't anyone there ever quit on his or her own?No one leaves voluntarily.They're forced out or they stay like Christians waiting for the lions to be let loose.Too many people in this market don't realize they're eventual firings are going to be career enders.
 
Yesterday I was talking to a guy who just got his holiday 'bone-us' from CC in Portsmouth. Their cash cow in the market has open avails during the day which they fill with PSA's. Now I understand we have an obligation to run public service, but their main money maker has open avails during the day? Their CHR is also tanking fast, so their 'fix' was to dump Ed McMann (who was voice-tracked in from Boston, so yeah, even some of the voice-tracked shifts are costing them far too much money it seems) and keep the morning show on until noon, then the afternoon guy takes over until 6 - and so on. Not to rag on people who work in shoe stores, but I'm thinking selling shoes for a living may be a bit more compelling than spending more time in this business with what it's become.
 
and.u.r? said:
I wouldn't be surprised to see weekenders eventually eliminated.Why even bother?
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From a cost perspective, weekends are only taking no more than $250 out of Clear Channel's pockets. You figure they have 25 hours live on the weekend (which is being generous) at $10/hr (which again I think is being generous). From the listeners' perspective, it does sound strange to have more personalities on the weekend than during the week. So who knows? Maybe the weekenders are the next to go. Knowing CC, I'm sure they would rather pocket the $250. In the time I worked there, I never once thought they'd eliminate weekends altogether. The thought never even crossed my mind. Fast forward to today and you can't be so sure any more. Nothing is surprising anymore.

Looking back, I left at the right time. Around that time, the big name personalities started to be shown the door (Bruce and Big John) and the music started to change. B101 doesn't come close to resembling what it was just 3 years ago. Musically, it's still a great station (albeit repetitive), but it's very different from the B101 I enjoyed being a part of.
 
10 bucks an hour huh....thats even more of an insult...and i bet they expect loyalty and hard work for their 10 bucks an hour.....i hope the weekenders live within walking distance to the station, or else its costing them money to work there
 
RadioNut said:
10 bucks an hour huh....thats even more of an insult...and i bet they expect loyalty and hard work for their 10 bucks an hour.....i hope the weekenders live within walking distance to the station, or else its costing them money to work there
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Hah. Nobody is within walking distance and there are people weekending not just at B101 but elsewhere in the building that are driving in from afar. You might say it's worth it to get the calls on the resume but some have no intention of ever getting into or back into radio full time so forget polishing the resume. It's the old story that people will pay to be on the radio even though I doubt anyone is losing money even considering the price of gas.
 
Oxford_Street_Shuffle said:
I hear that's the final solution and that the whole thing is voicetracked after 10a. What an embarassment! This is Providence, not Utica, NY. Clear Channel is a joke, and that cluster is a prime example of what's wrong with the industry today.
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You got it. Go right down the line: That's the situation on BB, HJY is all voice tracked except for AMD and PMD (but they managed to lose brangiforte as a full timer and replace him with part time), SNE is everything but AMD, and HJJ has what, 2 hours? That's some great radio.

And weekend jocks getting $10 an hour? Yeah, right. Maybe if they've been there half a decade or more.
 
B101 is obviously all tracked after 10AM.I heard HJY was going to be middays but wasn't sure if it started already.Is David O'Leary tracked on Coast?Frankly with promo people,board ops,producers,full and part time MDs and production people in the building why do these people need to be freed up?It doesn't take that long to track a show.Just what the hell else do they possibly have to do?
 
Isn't it sad that being on the air live is considered a waste of time. They,whoever they is, would rather you mail it in on the air and go into the office to do other duties. I guess having a good show, interacting with listeners, running a good board, etc, is pointless. After all, whats on the air is the finished product and THEY wouldn't want that to be done right. The people that run Clear Channel should be arrested.
 
im sure the cluster on the trail is takin good notes.... thats for sure..... cause most of the day time programming over there is still live
 
ben123 said:
And weekend jocks getting $10 an hour? Yeah, right. Maybe if they've been there half a decade or more.
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It's possible. I made $8.50/hr when I was there from '00-'04. I'm just guessing, but $10/hr seems like a logical dollar amount for 2007.
 
Hopefully many former B101 listeners have found Oldies 103.3 in Boston. They're live almost all the time, yes, even on Christmas eve! If only the average listener knew how poor of a product CC is feeding them in Providence...
 
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