CBS Radio continues to shoot themselves in the foot...

[CapeRadio]

From all-access, the following people have been given the pink slip:

-- Hot AC WBMX (MIX 98-5)/BOSTON Dir./Marketing ANNE-MARIE KENNEDY ([email protected])
-- News/Talk WBZ-A/BOSTON LSM MIKE MARCELLO
-- Classic Rock WZLX/BOSTON RSM ALISON SAWHILL
-- Oldies WODS/BOSTON RSM JORDI CHAPDELAINE

Which is unfortunate. Unfortunate for these people because they worked HARD. Unfortunate for CBS because (if you notice) these people are all sales and marketing.

And if you think it was an accident that CBS Radio Boston was the 10th most money making cluster in the country... They just canned many of the people responsible for that.

So, the hole for CBS gets even deeper. Money Loss off of format changes (like the Jacks and Free-FM's that don't make any money, replacing stations that made the most money), and firing the sales staff.

How incompitent are the execs at CBS Radio?

 

[MassMusicMan]

How much money did CBS donate to charity last year? Same thing with CC. Why do they have a problem paying their employees?

 

[Varulven]

Re: CBS Radio cleans house

In my humble opinion, change is good at ANY of these conglomerates. Terrestrial Radio is so stagnant a shake-up was inevitable.


Good article in radio & records

http://www.radioandrecords.com/Newsroom/2006_07_12/blackwednesday.asp


Wednesday, July 12, 2006


Black Wednesday At CBS Radio


R&R has confirmed the elimination of dozens of positions at CBS Radio

Here's another good one:

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/12/how_did_terrest.html

How Did Terrestrial Radio Lose its Audience ?

with the accurate line: " Radio's Wounded Business Model, "Traditional radio will likely never be the same nor is it likely to recover."

.

 

[Lucylu]

Has anyone else noticed that CBS Radio sales in Boston have fallen apart ever since Tony B. 'retired'? I hope Mark Hannon has his resume out there ;D

 

[Varulven]

Give some facts and figures, Lucy Lu

You can attribute ad revenue being off to Howard Stern's vanishing act.

Isn't Tony Berardini working the Patriots aspect of WBCN now? Anyone know?

Mel Karmazin not being a CBS has a lot to do with the advertising staff breathing
a bit easier. His presence put the fear of God into them (and put them on commission!)

It was a lot easier when you had quality talent like Ken Shelton in his prime to get
$400.00 a minute in mid-day. Mid-day today isn't worth four cents - not with all
the additional media out there as well as a hugely weakened audience.

You can't blame Dave Wellington either. BCN was a great station just as the Titanic
was a beautiful ship. After Oedipus hit the iceberg and wrecked the darn thing they expected
Wellington to haul it up from the bottom of the sea. Stern and the Patriots could've been
crown jewels, instead they became life preservers...and when the biggest preserver cut loose...

 

[furryradio]

>>You can attribute ad revenue being off to Howard Stern's vanishing act.

CBS needs to free up some money so they can pay Katie Couric, maybe...

 

[Nik2.0]

No Joe Tony is not involved in Pats he has position as dir of talent developement. In fact Severin was his project, he had been working on getting that guy into the CBS fold for a few years and he was responsible for the company hiring and syndicating him.

 

[Varulven]

Thanks, Nik, but I think if you look deeper into it Tony most likely does keep his hand in the Patriots thing

 

[Nik2.0]

What im saying to you is that his primary position with cbs at this juncture is "talent developement" he is still involved with Pats yes but his daily duties are as described.

 

[Varulven]

thought so! Thanks for confirming.

 

[Lucylu]

I'm talking about the sharp spike in middle manager and sales men/women turn over post Tony. A girlfriend of mine interviewed at WZLX a couple of years ago and ran from the building screaming. I don't remember who she talked with, but she said they were the biggest dog and pony show she had ever seen in real life.

 

[Mella]

I heard Lander lost his producer Wendy Filosi in the firings as well. It's a shame - I always liked Wendy!