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Blue Rocks postgame show question

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ixnay

I know it's too late to ask, but last season, Steve Lenox, on the postgame, ran down the Carolina League scores, then the MLB scores, before signing off. This year, Lenox's succesor ran down the CL scores, then wrapped the broadcast up. Was this a move dictated by the bean counters at Cheap Channel?

ixnay
 
Does Clear Channel control the broadcast or does the team?
 
As far as I know, the on-air talent decides what they do...as far as doing a rundown of the scores and such. Steve is a well-experienced baseball play-by-play announcer. The guy who replaced him isn't as experienced, however he does do a fine job. Also, this is the same guy who didn't show up for work one Thanksgiving morning at WILM to do sports, and left them high and dry.
 
Shawn O'Domski said:
As far as I know, the on-air talent decides what they do...as far as doing a rundown of the scores and such. Steve is a well-experienced baseball play-by-play announcer. The guy who replaced him isn't as experienced, however he does do a fine job. Also, this is the same guy who didn't show up for work one Thanksgiving morning at WILM to do sports, and left them high and dry.
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You mentioned that once before. What was the story?
Car trouble? Alarm clock malfunction? Decided to quit and not tell anybody?
Sounds sort of like Dan Rather walking off the Evening News that time.
 
The person in question simply decided to not show up for work when he was scheduled to be there. No car trouble. No alarm clock malfunction. Basically, he quit and didn't bother to inform the News Director and/or Program Manager. A few weeks later, he was back on the air at the Rowan University station.
 
Shawn O'Domski said:
The person in question simply decided to not show up for work when he was scheduled to be there. No car trouble. No alarm clock malfunction. Basically, he quit and didn't bother to inform the News Director and/or Program Manager. A few weeks later, he was back on the air at the Rowan University station.
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I wonder what happened or how he was treated to have him decide he'd rather be at a college station in the South Jersey sticks rather than working in commercial radio in a medium market?
And why he deprived himself of the pleasure of quitting?
The Hawkins and Loudell are really lucky they were never hit with a major HR or EEO suit. In any other industry, given their treatment of employees, they would have been.
 
Fred/Mike: The guy in question started off doing the weeknight overnight shift (a position he applied for when it opened up). I believe he moved on to do weekend sports shortly after doing the overnight thing...then abruptly quit a short time later...on a Thanksgiving holiday. As far as I know, he was not treated unfairly. I worked with the guy during his entire tenure, which didn't last very long. He didn't seem unhappy anyway, but I guess he was in the long run.

Why do you say that the former owners and program director were lucky not to be hit with a major HR or EEO lawsuit? I worked there for four years...but I was part-time during my entire tenure there (I was going to school...then got the full-time TV gig after that...but still kept weekends at the radio station) and I never recieved any unfair or unprofessional treatment from the management. Perhaps I needed to be there for their stupid six-day work week full-time schedule to understand where you are coming from. From what I understand, they still do that silly six-day, 40-hour work week crap too.
 
While many stations give week day on air staff the weekends off, I tend to agree with a point made by a particular pd. Week ends leave you with "weak ends". Certainly, you need part-timers for some night and week-end coverage. But seldom will they be at the quality of your full time staff, just like a pinch-hitter. So for the quality of your 7-day sound, full timers should cover your main week end time slots.

No, you should not waste your full timers while the program is a "garden clinic" or "handyman show". But if you are running weekend news hour, full timers will keep the quality up. Remember, I am saying that as someone who racked up a lot of years doing weekend and "panic situation" radio! So this is nothing personal against P/Ters!
 
Shawn O'Domski said:
As far as I know, the on-air talent decides what they do...as far as doing a rundown of the scores and such. Steve is a well-experienced baseball play-by-play announcer. The guy who replaced him isn't as experienced, however he does do a fine job. Also, this is the same guy who didn't show up for work one Thanksgiving morning at WILM to do sports, and left them high and dry.
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I can't for the life of me remember who replaced Lenox. I don't listen to the Rocks that often. I can't get 1290 or 1410 at night (except on my way out of Frawley's parking lot I can get 1290 and lose it around Newark) and since I don't have broadband, the webcast is buffer prone.

ixnay
 
Shawn O'Domski said:
From what I understand, they still do that silly six-day, 40-hour work week crap too.
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No, it's five days a week now - in lieu of more money.
To borrow a general observation made on the News-Talk board, it sounds like they think no body's listening on the weekends - which may not be far from the truth. It clearly sounds like no-body's working given chronic short-staffing on weekends - even when everybody shows up as scheduled.

The context on the News-Talk board was all the stations with brokered gardening, home repair, real estate and other advice programs (infomercials passing as talk shows). WILM has more than its share; as does WDEL. And NJ101.5 runs Oldies on the weekend - with a full spot load.

Meanwhile, WDEL has an ad up on All Access for part-timers in the news department. For the most part, on the weekends, WILM really was Delaware's ONLY news station. Maybe that's about to change.
 
Ixnay: John Sadak replaced Steve Lenox as Blue Rocks play-by-play announcer. I'm not sure who did color commentary this season. John is also the person in question in my other posts..the guy who didn't like showing up for work.
 
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