Captain Jorge has been grounded after 26 years of being KABC's airborne reporter as part of the Cumulus cuts.
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Captain Jorge Grounded
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Why prolong the end. Just end the stupid station. Jack Silver is another one of the brain dead PD's that have runined this station and now they are dismanteling it one veteran at a time. Just end it for crying out loud. Turn it into a Hip Hop station on AM or try something new.
There have been a couple of long-time airborne traffic reporters sacked this week. If these guys want to stay in the game, it's actually not a bad place from which to launch your own business. There are still large, institutional advertisers in many cities who'd love to sponsor airborne traffic watch, and you could sell it back to stations from the outside on barter. I wonder if they'll try?
What a shame. Didnt he have a 23yr old daughter Ashley as well. Hopefully he gets some good severance pay.
Mike Nolan got hired back to do on the ground traffic reports on KFI and other stations I believe. That was because of listener response and also KFI news still has him to fly coverage of things like wild fires and such. But KABC is not a highly rated or regarded station any more and to be truthful airborne traffic coverage, except maybe on TV, has little listener appeal in today's GPS/I-Pad world. So this move was inevitable and amazing that they kept him for so long.
Back when I was a kid and traffic reporting from the air was in it's infancy, as were staff meteorologists on TV one local DJ in my home town in Ohio did a spoof on traffic reporting. In his version the "reporter" was driving around the main thoroughfares reporting on aircraft he sighted overhead.
Back when I was a kid and traffic reporting from the air was in it's infancy, as were staff meteorologists on TV one local DJ in my home town in Ohio did a spoof on traffic reporting. In his version the "reporter" was driving around the main thoroughfares reporting on aircraft he sighted overhead.
Are they also going to get rid of that annoying Scott the Skylord on KLOS?
nmoore6676 said:
True, Nolan was brought back at a fraction of his old pay to be a ground bound traffic reporter. I've heard him speak to the matter and what he said was that you get much more accurate reporting from an airborne reporter above the scene than you get from relayed information via ground reporting. Most people don't use their phones to get the info they need because reading a phone display while driving is neither convenient nor safe. And contrary to popular belief not everyone has GPS/Ipad technology at their fingertips. But hey, that's where we're being pushed to go, so maybe someday that statement will really be true. The only reason airborne traffic reporters are being grounded is money. You're not getting more accurate reporting, but radio company suits are saving cash and if you confronted them about it they would simply tell you behind closed doors that they don't care and that's that.
In the SF Bay Area, the much storied KGO Jet Copter was grounded by Citadel over a year ago, to save money. KGO also had a traffic airplane for years- I'm not sure when that was decomissioned, but the plane's reporter, Lin Durling, now provides traffic reports from his in-home studio, so obviously he's relying on cameras and ground-spotters.
Given the current technology, perhaps the copters and planes are really superflous these days - not to mention expensive to operate.
Given the current technology, perhaps the copters and planes are really superflous these days - not to mention expensive to operate.
calguy said:
I've heard Mike discussing it on Handel and he is paid less now and probably not as much as he should be. But a part of his previous compensation was to provide the plane which he owns and which he maintained and fueled. Also now he does the reports from his home so he has no commute and no need to be at risk in the airspace over LA county.
It may well be true that the coverage of a specific event can be more accurate from overhead you can still only be in on place at a time and even though you can move from one place to another rapidly the time given in any given broadcast segment doesn't allow much of that. In truth most of the coverage is pretty useless to anyone actually on the road at the time as I often discovered while snarled in a jam that hadn't made it to the airwaves yet.
As to the safety of using mobile devices while driving, even here in semi rural Iowa, where I now dwell, that doesn't keep people from texting and whatever while driving. But it is true that we are being driven, or rather led like sheep, to the latest and greatest technologies.
Actually Mike has been doing his reports from the Tustin studios for several months now. Also, once every month or so he goes up, just to maintain his airborne chops and of course his equipment. He also fly's whenever there is a major story like fire coverage. He's a great guy and a huge asset to the company.
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