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Business As Usual

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Element9

I hate to disappoint readers and posters of this board, but I don't expect justice to be served as a result of the Attorney General's complaint against Entercom.

The orders came from the top. "Play For Pay" was and apparently continues to be Entercom's Business Plan, devised by one or more of the key players at the corporate level. The BP was executed by the local management teams, which according to the Complaint, were responsible for generating revenue by way of the record companies and their independent promoters.

Nobody will get fired (other than those already cast in front of the bus.) No license will be jeopardized. Fines will be paid, the issues will be settled and in five years, this will be but a milestone on the highway to bigger profits and greater success.

If anybody thinks Entercom is the only broadcast company which may have violated the law, wake up and smell the head cleaner.

Everything is for sale at the right price. Everything is wonderful when the shareholders are happy. Greid is good.

Interestingly, I listened to Buffalo's News Leader this morning and not a word of Entercom's plight was mentioned. It's nice when you own the only commercial news outlet in the city of license, serving in the public convenience, interest and necessity.

Equally interesting, according to insiders Entercom station managers are in Las Vegas today, attending corporate strategy meetings. No doubt the lawyers will be in attendance as well. Anybody care to double down?

Last night, out of curiousity, I checked Entercom's share price, then checked one of my 401(k) sectors, which just happens to be in telecommunications stock. You guessed it. Indirectly, I'm an Entercom share holder.

Damn this Spitzer! He's just not good for business.
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Please make sure your sarcasm detector is operating.
 
"Interestingly, I listened to Buffalo's New Leader this morning and not a word of Entercom's plight was mentioned."


Now that wouldn't make any sense, would it?
 
> Equally interesting, according to insiders Entercom station
> managers are in Las Vegas today, attending corporate
> strategy meetings.

Gee, I wonder if the record companies paid for the managers' airfare to Vegas
or if Entercom picked up the tab on their own.

Like the man said, "Please make sure your sarcasm detector is operating".
 
I am so naive when it comes to this. Everytime I think it doesn't exist it rears it's ugly head again. To think they make jocks sign forms saying they won't take payola.

Okay so we all know it's wrong to take a bribe to play a record but what about those on the other side who are offering the cash (or whatever), aren't they equally at fault? Do they get fined too?

Nothing about it on WBEN? Imagine that! Maybe they didn't think anyone really cares....<-scarcasm here!

MikeM
 
> > Equally interesting, according to insiders Entercom
> station
> > managers are in Las Vegas today, attending corporate
> > strategy meetings.
>
> Gee, I wonder if the record companies paid for the managers'
> airfare to Vegas
> or if Entercom picked up the tab on their own.
>
> Like the man said, "Please make sure your sarcasm detector
> is operating".
>

The consensus amoung colleagues in the business, two of whom work for (un-named) Rochester clusters, is that this is indeed, "business as usual." Another friend (who does not work in an Entercom cluster) actually defends the practice, noting parenthetically that Spitzer is riding a tidal wave toward the governor's office. According to him, "The average guy living in Penfield, house, two kids, wife and mortgage doesn't give a spit about how and why a song gets played on the radio." I disagree with his justification, but one knows how it is when disagreeing with friends. A certain diplomacy is required.

Mike made a good point with regard to the amount of disclosure forms air talent are required to sign these days. You might be surprised to know that even in publishing, we have to sign similar forms (e.g., can't take a bribe from a school district to undercut the cost of textbooks at the expense of another district or the publishers of similar course-study materials, etc.)

Since the jocks are held accountable and ostensibly can't take even a free pizza for playing a request, where is the accountability when it comes to CEO's, in-house consultants and Regional VP's?

This whole Entercom plugola thing stinks to high heaven. Sadly but wrongly, it will only reinforce the jaundiced view of some people who hold radio types only a rung or two above pimps and crack dealers. As usual, decent, hard-working people will be tarnished as a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel.

Best regards,

Janos Surlikevich
 
> Sadly but wrongly, it will only reinforce the jaundiced view
> of some people who hold radio types only a rung or two above
> pimps and crack dealers. >



Artist: Djay f/ Shug
Album: Hustle & Flow Soundtrack
Song: It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp
Typed by: OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash

[Chorus 2X: Shug - singing] + (Djay)
You know it's hard out here for a pimp (you ain't knowin)
When he tryin to get this money for the rent (you ain't knowin)
For the Cadillacs and gas money spent (you ain't knowin)
[1] Because a whole lot of bitches talkin (BLEEP) (you ain't knowin)
[2] Will have a whole lot of bitches jumpin ship (you ain't knowin)

[Djay]
In my eyes I done seen some crazy thangs in the streets
Gotta couple hoes workin on the changes for me
But I gotta keep my game tight like Kobe on game night
Like takin from a ho don't know no better, I know that ain't right
Done seen people killed, done seen people deal
Done seen people live in poverty with no meals
It's fxxked up where I live, but that's just how it is
It might be new to you, but it's been like this for years
It's blood sweat and tears when it come down to this (BLEEP)
I'm tryin to get rich 'fore I leave up out this bitch
I'm tryin to have thangs but it's hard fo' a pimp
But I'm prayin and I'm hopin to God I don't slip, yeah
Chorus]

[Djay]
Man it seems like I'm duckin dodgin bullets everyday
Niggaz hatin on me cause I got, hoes on the tray
But I gotta stay paid, gotta stay above water
Couldn't keep up with my hoes, that's when (BLEEP) got harder
North Memphis where I'm from, I'm 7th Street bound
Where niggaz all the time end up lost and never found
Man these girls think we prove thangs, leave a big head
They come hopin every night, they don't end up bein dead
Wait I got a snow bunny, and a black girl too
You pay the right price and they'll both do you
That's the way the game goes, gotta keep it strictly pimpin
Gotta have my hustle tight, makin change off these women, yeah

[Chorus]

How much did Entercom charge to play this song???????????????????????????
 
> How much did Entercom charge to play this
> song???????????????????????????
>

Fiddy Cent?
 
> > How much did Entercom charge to play this
> > song???????????????????????????
> >
>
> Fiddy Cent?
>

LOL. Nice. More likely, "fie thousan' dollah." (-Eddie Murphy)
 
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