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CC Sac looking for new PD?

camron_fri said:
I saw this on AA today. Anyone have the scoop?
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Don Alias was fired. NO one is talking. That smells like something he did wrong that could get the company in trouble. Use your imagination. Maybe it's just a simple firing, maybe not, but either way, they're looking. They will be looking for at least two programmers, one of them to be an FM ops manager. This is not a happy shop. Few people like the GM, no one likes the company, and no one inside the building likes what's happened to the products, and most of the staff blames that on the GM and the company.
 
kinetic said:
camron_fri said:
I saw this on AA today. Anyone have the scoop?
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Don Alias was fired. NO one is talking. That smells like something he did wrong that could get the company in trouble. Use your imagination. Maybe it's just a simple firing, maybe not, but either way, they're looking. They will be looking for at least two programmers, one of them to be an FM ops manager. This is not a happy shop. Few people like the GM, no one likes the company, and no one inside the building likes what's happened to the products, and most of the staff blames that on the GM and the company.
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JESUS H CHRIST!!! Is ANYONE happy in Radio??? If you have a gig and as shitty as it may be, be very thankful. A lot of good people are out of work.
 
if you're not happy in radio, then you shouldn't be in radio. the whiners and crybabys need to quit if they're not happy. there are plenty of unemployed people who would be happy to put up with the drama and bullshit.
 
Yeah you want back in, but when you get there, some time will pass and you'll be whining too. Radio, we all love it, but face facts, what we really love is what radio used to be. Listen closely to stations in various cites and you'll find little difference in how a major market station sounds from a smaller market station. That's because of companies like CC who cookie cutter their stations and voice track them. CC for example runs the same contests in most markets and in many you can hear the same tired, overworked air talent tracking away for little dollars, or in some cases no dollars. That's because most CC talent have to give them voice tracking for at least one outside station for free. Cheap Channel does it, and the others follow. Pretty sad. All because they were greedy, merged with or bought too many stations at over inflated prices as well as assuming debt from those companies they swallowed and could NEVER pay the debt down. So they trim, cut, fire and consolidate jobs. Worst of all they actually cut product. I could go on, but I'd be here all night...
 
I think everybody in this thread has made a few good points. If you're out, you wanna be back in because it's what you know and love. You get back in and you realize you've made a deal with the devil. It's like breaking up with a woman who treated you well, you get back with her and find out she did the fourth fleet while you were apart. Breaks your heart. Makes you nuts. Radio (and some women... and no doubt, a woman would say the same about guys.)
 
calguy said:
That's because most CC talent have to give them voice tracking for at least one outside station for free.
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Huh? I know a lot of people who VT for CC and none of them do it for free. Mind you, it's not a lot of money, on average less than the price of a new Kia, but it's money.
 
TheBigA said:
calguy said:
That's because most CC talent have to give them voice tracking for at least one outside station for free.
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Huh? I know a lot of people who VT for CC and none of them do it for free. Mind you, it's not a lot of money, on average less than the price of a new Kia, but it's money.
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Well it's being included in the new personal services contracts now being pushed at CC's major market stations. So if they haven't seen this clause yet, they will. They're going to a new national template for PSC's and it's right there in tiny black & white. After that first station you are supposed to be paid for any others that you do, but if you only track for one outside of cluster station, it's a freebie for CC.
 
TheBigA said:
calguy said:
Well it's being included in the new personal services contracts now being pushed at CC's major market stations.
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If you have a PSC, you're not a typical air talent.
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That's a matter of opinion. Those with a PSC would be typical in a major market. But I see your point, Sacramento is not a major market by any stretch of the imagination. Still, as I mentioned earlier there's not much difference in how major, large, medium and small markets sound thanks to CC's cookie cutter style of programming.
 
calguy said:
Still, as I mentioned earlier there's not much difference in how major, large, medium and small markets sound thanks to CC's cookie cutter style of programming.
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Look...the goal of great programming isn't to be original, but to be #1. That's what keeps you employed. I've worked at stations where they had huge playlists and original air talent, but no listeners. I've also been at the other end of the spectrum. The other end pays better. Even now.
 
calguy said:
Yeah you want back in, but when you get there, some time will pass and you'll be whining too. Radio, we all love it, but face facts, what we really love is what radio used to be. Listen closely to stations in various cites and you'll find little difference in how a major market station sounds from a smaller market station. That's because of companies like CC who cookie cutter their stations and voice track them. CC for example runs the same contests in most markets and in many you can hear the same tired, overworked air talent tracking away for little dollars, or in some cases no dollars. That's because most CC talent have to give them voice tracking for at least one outside station for free. Cheap Channel does it, and the others follow. Pretty sad. All because they were greedy, merged with or bought too many stations at over inflated prices as well as assuming debt from those companies they swallowed and could NEVER pay the debt down. So they trim, cut, fire and consolidate jobs. Worst of all they actually cut product. I could go on, but I'd be here all night...
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just because cheapchannel sucks doesn't mean all of radio sucks. i'll never work for cheap channel in a market smaller than Detroit. and even then they'd have to offer me way more money than they ever would in reality.

yes there are other companies that are guilty of gang raping the entire industry, nobody as much as clearchannel.

luckily, karma is a mean cruel bitch, and clear channel has already paid the price, and will continue to do so.

listeners aren't complete retards, they know when stations are prophetized. (notice how prophet = profit, that's not a coincidence) Cheap Channel's new move in station will never do well. It's too bad they didn't spend the money to launch a REAL station on 93.1. It's a damn shame.
 
I'm suprised CC is looking to fill a PD position or 2 in Sac. With the exception of KFBK and a few hours on KSTE, the cluster is Premium choice. The receptionist could run them. The music logs come from out of market, the jock voice trax come from out of market. It's largely a clerical job.
 
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