Budget cutting

[RDO]

Just read that Emmis made some cuts. Any people let go in Indy?

With all the jobs being cut in radio, will there be any jobs left in the next couple of years? Is this the beginning of the end? Who do we blame? Dereg and Clear Channel for homogenizing radio?

 

[jo-nathan]

Clear Channel in of itself is not to blame, nor do I really blame deregulation. What I blame is the suits themselves. This is what happens when a bunch of rich guys decide to play radio. People end up losing their jobs, listeners lose out on their station and communities go without important weather information and the like. That is what we have to blame.

Jonathan

 

[kirkiefan]

Granted,the suits are the culprits here. But it still goes back to 80s/90s deregulation and clustering making the suits the opporitunist cash cow scumbags that they are. "City of License" is nothing more than lip service. CC has no desire to have locally oriented community citizenship.

Remember Frank Zappa's "I'm The Slime"? It also applies to radio. :'( :'( :'(

 

[BobOnTheJob]

So back to the original question...any local casualties?

 

[RDO]

According to the story on AllAccess, no one in Indy was let go. Mostly LA and NY.

 

[bigtime]

Emmis dumped a format in NYC. That meant a few people are out. Same thing happened in Indy but it was last October.

 

[Ann Tenna]

Just read that Emmis made some cuts. Any people let go in Indy?

With all the jobs being cut in radio, will there be any jobs left in the next couple of years? Is this the beginning of the end? Who do we blame? Dereg and Clear Channel for homogenizing radio?

ALWAYS blame Clear Channel. Clear Channel is the reason commercial radio sucks, Clear Channel causes global warming, Clear Channel trains terrorists in the Iraqi desert, Clear Channel is responsible for the bird flu, and Clear Channel iinjects Major League Baseball players with steroids and human growth hormones.

Oh, and also Clear Channel is creating a race of robot people to slowly and quietly eliminate the human race and complete their corporate master plan of world domination.

 

[pbf1]

ALWAYS blame Clear Channel. Clear Channel is the reason commercial radio sucks, Clear Channel causes global warming, Clear Channel trains terrorists in the Iraqi desert, Clear Channel is responsible for the bird flu, and Clear Channel iinjects Major League Baseball players with steroids and human growth hormones.

Oh, and also Clear Channel is creating a race of robot people to slowly and quietly eliminate the human race and complete their corporate master plan of world domination.

I don't care who you are...THAT'S FUNNY, right there!

Stellar post.

 

[RDO]

Just read that Emmis made some cuts. Any people let go in Indy?

With all the jobs being cut in radio, will there be any jobs left in the next couple of years? Is this the beginning of the end? Who do we blame? Dereg and Clear Channel for homogenizing radio?

ALWAYS blame Clear Channel. Clear Channel is the reason commercial radio sucks, Clear Channel causes global warming, Clear Channel trains terrorists in the Iraqi desert, Clear Channel is responsible for the bird flu, and Clear Channel iinjects Major League Baseball players with steroids and human growth hormones.

Oh, and also Clear Channel is creating a race of robot people to slowly and quietly eliminate the human race and complete their corporate master plan of world domination.

Did I hit a nerve? A little close to home? With their business plan they homogenized radio. They may have made more money for their investors, but still radio has become very stale since they started doing cookie-cutter radio.

 

[Ann Tenna]

Just read that Emmis made some cuts. Any people let go in Indy?

With all the jobs being cut in radio, will there be any jobs left in the next couple of years? Is this the beginning of the end? Who do we blame? Dereg and Clear Channel for homogenizing radio?

ALWAYS blame Clear Channel. Clear Channel is the reason commercial radio sucks, Clear Channel causes global warming, Clear Channel trains terrorists in the Iraqi desert, Clear Channel is responsible for the bird flu, and Clear Channel iinjects Major League Baseball players with steroids and human growth hormones.

Oh, and also Clear Channel is creating a race of robot people to slowly and quietly eliminate the human race and complete their corporate master plan of world domination.

Did I hit a nerve? A little close to home? With their business plan they homogenized radio. They may have made more money for their investors, but still radio has become very stale since they started doing cookie-cutter radio.

I have no dog in this fight between you and big corporate radio, but it could also be said that Clear Channel (and other group owners) kept any number of smaller failing stations from repeatedly selling or simply going dark by supporting them with the resources needed to make them a viable & listenable product. In any case, it appears my original point has drifted over your head, but thanks for playing along.

 

[RDO]

"but thanks for playing along."

No, thank you, for letting me play along. I appreciate the opportunity to have my viewpoint heard.

 

[radiowannab]

Who decides who gets cut at big companies like Emmis or Clear Channel? Is it on recomendations from local people or does it come from a board of directors? It just seems odd that people in New York would decide who gets cut in Indianapolis or Chicago.

 

[MACK184]

The problem is not CC, Citadel, Cumulus or CBS. {Why do they ALL start with C? Hmmm} It is the system that Telecom '96 put in motion. All these groups started out to see who could become the biggest the fastest and in doing so, they way overpaid for many of the properties that they purchased. Since most business notes are for 10 years, you're seeing those notes come due, and it's time to pay the fiddler. So as these operations become strapped for cash, you'll see more and more cutbacks as they bankers stand there with their hands out.