You should have heard the woke garbage he was telling the receptionist.
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CapRadio cuts 12% staff and cancels shows
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You should have heard the woke garbage he was telling the receptionist.
No, it's the stack of boxes from, probably, a UPS delivery.
Boxes of money from George Soros. Showed up at 11:30 every morning like clockwork.
Something about wee-wee pads in every hallway? Or permission to mark his territory in the tech operations room?
The smaller box of cash at the end was from Planned Parenthood, though.
Assuming we're finished with the foolishness, the reason the lobby at CapRadio is so large is that, in pre-pandemic times, the board of directors would meet at the station, and those sessions were open to the public. To the right of the lobby as you enter is a meeting room where those meetings and others (donors, community outreach) would take place.
You could probably fit 70 or so people into that meeting room, so to keep people from standing out in the elements to get in, the lobby was designed to be large. That also made it a handy place for refreshments during a meeting.
Also, the hour-long "Insight" program often had multiple guests, and there would also be visitors coming to see various staff members on business. Sufficient seating to handle that was simply a good idea.
You could probably fit 70 or so people into that meeting room, so to keep people from standing out in the elements to get in, the lobby was designed to be large. That also made it a handy place for refreshments during a meeting.
Also, the hour-long "Insight" program often had multiple guests, and there would also be visitors coming to see various staff members on business. Sufficient seating to handle that was simply a good idea.
So I can't even mention the Teachers Union or the Farmer Union? (Those just came in plain old Priority Mail boxes that were free.)
And, in fact, any mostly- or all-talk station I have been with has had plenty of lobby space and even the equivalent of a "green room" for guests on the shows.
(Stations with a good tech staff try to discourage "live" guests who are on cellular phones to avoid dueling codecs on the audio and want guests in person, not on the phone).
I just wasn't sure if he meant that he thought the KQED lobby was that way before the remodel, or if it was still that way after the remodel. It doesn't really matter.
Not to nitpick, but I don't know how this gets clearer (and this is the comment you replied to):
In my time at KTRH in Houston, the lobby serving us and KLOL was relatively small, just a receptionist, a few chairs, and stairs up to the second level. The receptionist was universally known as Miss Lilly and you did not cross her.
Most of the first floor space was taken up with a propane generator and tanks to keep the station on the air during hurricanes. Otherwise, I don’t know why it was set up that way. Our part of the Montrose neighborhood could be a little dicey at night (for example, someone was shot dead one night next to our garage entrance) so that may have been one other factor.
It really makes show prep hard when you have a cadaver by the entrance when you come to work.
Or, as the owner of the station I consulted in the 80's in El Salvador said when I got off the plane on one visit, "Things are looking better. I have not seen a body on the street for over a week!"
I grew up in NYC. I've been to a whole lot of stations in the Greatest City In The World, market #1. With the possible exception of WNBC (which of course was the flagship station of the National Broadcasting Company, in its headquarters at 30 Rock), every station's lobby was modest, respectable but non-extravagent. I had a friend who worked at WCBS-FM (so similar situation to WNBC except they were in Black Rock up the street) and I've been there dozens of times. Their lobby was a few side chairs and a phone, with a list of staff and their extensions. It was smaller than my smallest bedroom. I've also been in a few stations here in the Bay Area, and even the mighty KGO's lobby was on the modest side, back towards the end of their 30-year run as #1.
Stations in places where the real estate cost is by the square foot are not going to waste money on large, extravagent lobbies unless there is a functional need for one, as Mike described a few posts up-board for CapRadio. No CEO, CFO or administrative services chief is going to get their head handed to them for approving such a waste of resources.
However, in the case of the new CapRadio headquarters, do not forget that there are allegations of double-dealing between their former General Manager (who was also CFO at the time, so one check on this had been neutralized) and one or more Board members, one who had real estate interests in Sacramento and another whose business was to sell new furniture to outfit new/remodeled office suites. Both directors had a self-interest in being the one to provide the real estate space and the furniture, and they had the inside track to push up the bill since they would be voting to approve the expenditures as well as benefiting from them. And the GM benefited by co-opting those same people (and possible other board members) to act in a conflicted way, since they would be less likely to expose the GM himself if his own self-dealing were spotted.
Stations in places where the real estate cost is by the square foot are not going to waste money on large, extravagent lobbies unless there is a functional need for one, as Mike described a few posts up-board for CapRadio. No CEO, CFO or administrative services chief is going to get their head handed to them for approving such a waste of resources.
However, in the case of the new CapRadio headquarters, do not forget that there are allegations of double-dealing between their former General Manager (who was also CFO at the time, so one check on this had been neutralized) and one or more Board members, one who had real estate interests in Sacramento and another whose business was to sell new furniture to outfit new/remodeled office suites. Both directors had a self-interest in being the one to provide the real estate space and the furniture, and they had the inside track to push up the bill since they would be voting to approve the expenditures as well as benefiting from them. And the GM benefited by co-opting those same people (and possible other board members) to act in a conflicted way, since they would be less likely to expose the GM himself if his own self-dealing were spotted.
We probably need to start fresh threads for CapRadio developments. The 12% layoffs were 14 months ago.
Especially since the people on the same political side as CapRadio can't seem to keep their politics to themselves and discuss the subject in the title.
What's fascinating about that, Paul, is that I went back and found that the thread, which started on September 1 of 2023, stayed away from politics until August 28 of this year:
And the next time politics came up was Tuesday of this past week:
Literally nobody else has discussed politics in this, other than in response to you. And none of us have discussed our own politics.
Sounds more like Haywire to me. Anytime someone doesn't like a story they hear on Public Radio, they cry political bias or whine about the station lobby...😑
OK, so nobody else talked politics in the entire thread. I'm the problem. Got it. Whatever. Just ban me and be done with it then.
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