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"Best Of Times For Radio": Clear Channel Layoffs Ahead

BossRadioDJ

BossRadioDJ

The S.F. Peninsula Press Club reported in its must-read blog on Saturday that...

Clear Channel, which has 10 radio stations in the Bay Area, will lay off 1,500 of its 20,000-employee national work force on Tuesday, with most of the cuts coming in sales, the Wall Street Journal reported today.

According to the blog, KKGN (Green 960) program director was quoted by KTRB's Rich "Big Vinnie" Lieberman as saying:

"This is the best of times for radio. Anybody who thinks this is the worst is sticking their heads in the sand. The window is open for creative managers to throw the long ball, to take some risks, that in an ordinary economic time would never get a chance."

Whew, Sundance. For a moment there, I thought radio was in trouble. Let the good times roll!
 
Unfortunately those 'creative managers' were already laid off or fired. So they are not in the biz anymore. They are working at Wal*Mart or Target. While they were employed their heads were clearly out of the sand and trying everything to let the suits know what is going on. Only to be rejected by deaf ears and blinded eyes and bottom line egoes.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
The S.F. Peninsula Press Club reported in its must-read blog on Saturday that...

Clear Channel, which has 10 radio stations in the Bay Area, will lay off 1,500 of its 20,000-employee national work force on Tuesday, with most of the cuts coming in sales, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
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And not only have I not been contacted about advertising by the Citadel folks, nobody from Clear Channel has been contacting me, either. I guess with the sales force cutback I'll never be contacted by CC about buying advertising.
 
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