CC's Heartless "Thank Yous" on Axed Station Websites

[eacalhoun1]

How many times do you just want to vomit and the following pretty standard "eulogy" CC slaps on their blown-up station websites:

(station calls/slogan) wants to thank you for (number) years of loyalty and support. You made (calls/slogan) one of (your favorite locale) great radio stations and we thank you so much. Thanks for all the memories!

If you interperet this message, here's what it really means:

Clear Channel wants to say "screw you", you lowly listener. You're the idiots that call in to all of our stupid contests and look like dopeheads on the front row and backstage at concerts screaming how much you love us--you're such suckers!! Not to mention how much you pester us about the status of school when the first snowflake falls--you're such morons. Now, we've really broke it off in you! With the literal flip of a switch, we've flushed the station we've hated since we bought it 10 years ago. Yeah, you'll jam our lines, write letters to the editor, boycott our advertisers, but just remember:

We're the gods of America's Airwaves...And don't you forget it!!!!!!!

 

[pbf1]

Not really

It's trying to avoid the bad PR of not acknowledging that some people did, in fact, like the station(s).

And they aren't the only ones doing it. Not by a long shot.

 

[catbird]

At least CC attempted a thank you... no such thing from Entercom after Oldies got killed. I hear the (ex)listeners are complaining in droves...

 

[radiofriend1]

At least CC attempted a thank you... no such thing from Entercom after Oldies got killed. I hear the (ex)listeners are complaining in droves...

true

and btw in years of corporate meetings, conventions, brainstorming i have never ever heard one radio exec or programmer say or even suggest **SCREW THE LISTENER**

people who are on their way down or out of radio almost always try that tact but even the lowest form of life understands HAVING LISTENERS is FIRST priority

withoutlistners u have no ratings-without ratings u have no rate integrity and without that u have no sales and generate no revenue


so this **SCREW THE LISTENERS** cry we hear so often -- u have to consider the source

 

[goatboy]

They don't have to say "SCREW THE LISTENERS". Their actions speak VOLUMES.

Perfume this turd all you want, but when you have completely screwed a station (heritage, marketing, music), then you flip to country. It's is the last option for screwed-up management.

And this stunting; If anyone ever thought about the listener, they would just change the format and leave it to whatever the new format is. If someone is tuning around, hear's the new country station on 106.1, they could go "awww. i hate country. i'm never going there". likewise, if someone tunes to the new 106.1 and says "cool; i like country", then they come back a couple of days later and it's something else, they get pissed because they thought they had a new station playing their music. So, u screw EVERYONE.

 

[radiofriend1]

They don't have to say "SCREW THE LISTENERS". Their actions speak VOLUMES.

Perfume this turd all you want, but when you have completely screwed a station (heritage, marketing, music), then you flip to country. It's is the last option for screwed-up management.

And this stunting; If anyone ever thought about the listener, they would just change the format and leave it to whatever the new format is. If someone is tuning around, hear's the new country station on 106.1, they could go "awww. i hate country. i'm never going there". likewise, if someone tunes to the new 106.1 and says "cool; i like country", then they come back a couple of days later and it's something else, they get pissed because they thought they had a new station playing their music. So, u screw EVERYONE.

are u in the radio biz today, btw?

 

[goatboy]

yes

somehow i am still in "the biz"

why?

 

[berlin201]

I think we all saw a graphic example of how Smoketree Court got its name... someone at CC-R must have been smoking some heavy-duty dope... I understand they couldn't call it "The Bull" like they did with 100.7 because that name is already taken (620 The Bull) in this market. But surely, if this country format is the real thing and not just another "100.7 The Bull" they could've picked a better name than Rooster. Oh, wait a minute: CC copied that name from another "Rooster 106" they own somewhere in Georgia:
www.rooster106.com

 

[o409]

I think we all saw a graphic example of how Smoketree Court got its name... someone at CC-R must have been smoking some heavy-duty dope... I understand they couldn't call it "The Bull" like they did with 100.7 because that name is already taken (620 The Bull) in this market. But surely, if this country format is the real thing and not just another "100.7 The Bull" they could've picked a better name than Rooster. Oh, wait a minute: CC copied that name from another "Rooster 106" they own somewhere in Georgia:
www.rooster106.com

Don't forget the "under performing" WROO-FM in Jacksonville that CC has. http://www.roostercountry107.com/main.html

409

 

[goatboy]

BTW,
props to Highwoods for KILLING CC by registering 1061therooster.com and therooster1061.com

Go ahead, put the URLs in your browser. IT'S FREAKING HILARIOUS!

 

[radiofriend1]

BTW,
props to Highwoods for KILLING CC by registering 1061therooster.com and therooster1061.com

Go ahead, put the URLs in your browser. IT'S FREAKING HILARIOUS!

yes what a marvelous use of time and resources

which will have ZERO impact

 

[goatboy]

sounds like the negativity of a bad egg who needs to be weeded out of the biz. please take your sour puss over to the waffle house. you would be ideal for the graveyard shift.

 

[radiofriend1]

sounds like the negativity of a bad egg who needs to be weeded out of the biz. please take your sour puss over to the waffle house. you would be ideal for the graveyard shift.

ME the sour puss?

go back and read your own stuff. U were the one pissing and moaning that radio has a "SCREW THE LISTENER!" attitude----what, can't take your own medicine?

grow up or move on

 

[goatboy]

BTW,
some of these posts are being deleted, so the visitors to this board didn't see where radiofriend said that consolidation had been effective for weeding out "bad eggs" like me with poor attitudes. I didn't want anyone to think I was just attacking him/her out of nowhere.

I never said "radio" had the "screw the listener" attitude. Obviously, that's just something that's done by people who are doing radio badly (CC-Raleigh, for example) and you have elected yourself their leader/defender.

I apologize to the other posters here for this little flame. I didn't mean to get into a pissing match and screw up the topic, so carry on...

 

[radiofriend1]

BTW,
some of these posts are being deleted, so the visitors to this board didn't see where radiofriend said that consolidation had been effective for weeding out "bad eggs" like me with poor attitudes. I didn't want anyone to think I was just attacking him/her out of nowhere.

I never said "radio" had the "screw the listener" attitude. Obviously, that's just something that's done by people who are doing radio badly (CC-Raleigh, for example) and you have elected yourself their leader/defender.

I apologize to the other posters here for this little flame. I didn't mean to get into a pissing match and screw up the topic, so carry on...

U accused clear channel of that- go back and read YOUR post----U totally roasted them over a format flip. BFD, it happens all the time with all radio companies all over the country. the station was a dog the past several years, time to move on

and i stand by my statement that one of the benefits of consolidation was to trip the cancers out of radio

funny- all U *CORPORATE RADIO SUCKS* types who whine about jobs being elimiated have never done the math--compared to the *back in the day when radio was great* era, there are now many more jobs because there are many more stations competing in bigger markets. all the move-ins of the late 80's into the 90's has actually produced more on-air, sales and support positions in the business, even with some of the job consolidation of the past years

so, in closing, if u don't like our business, either do your part to MAKE IT BETTER (whining and complaining don't help, therefore don't count), accept or please leave it

a station in raleigh not playing your favorite music anymore is not the end of the world as any of us knows it.

 

[chromiumboy]

I'm sorry. "Many more jobs"? When one PD/OM is responsible for 5 stations? When overnights and weekends are voice tracked? When one sales staff and one engineering staff handles multiple stations? Sure there's many more jobs...at Wal-Mart.

 

[goatboy]

Sorry...gotta respond

The station was a "dog" because CC made it a dog. It wasn't some sort of evolutionary process ot of the hands of CC management. The record shows that they took a station that was VERY healthy when they bought it and through mismanagement made it into one of the many cookie-cutter country stations in NC playing the same songs by the same artists. The uniqueness of 'RDU was completely squandered by CC. You make it seem like they had nothing to do with 'RDU going into the crapper. While it's true that rock stations across the country are having trouble, that is true of nearly EVERY format. Many rock stations have found ways to re-invent themselves and remain relevant to their market/audience. Even Rock 92 in Greensboro plays the same Godawful tunes they have for years, but they have improved their station by developing home-grown talent and putting them on the air like seven hours a day; making their station RELEVANT to listeners despite challenges of the marketplace. CC-Raleigh had many more resources that the owners of Rock 92 and still managed to screw the pooch.

I am hoping you lose your job someday. I would be interested to hear your comments about consolidation's weeding out the deadweight then.

 

[radiofriend1]

I'm sorry. "Many more jobs"? When one PD/OM is responsible for 5 stations? When overnights and weekends are voice tracked? When one sales staff and one engineering staff handles multiple stations? Sure there's many more jobs...at Wal-Mart.

here is an example:

move in to the St Louis market......in the middle-of-nowhere missouri, they had 5-6 jocks, couple of sales people, maybe a receptionist, an engineer, etc. in st. louis, # of jocks probably doubles, sales people at least triples---you have several promotions staffers, techs for remotes, sales asst, programming asst(s), and on and on

multiply that times hundreds of move-ins nationwide and it's not that hard to figure out

 

[Big_Ben]

Alright, I was going to just sit back and muse over this topic, but I can't resist...

Corporate Radio is NOT NOT NOT creating more jobs in the industry. I agree, some small stations may not have as many staffers until they are bought out...maybe one or two per market. Even so, the number of workers gained by this pales in comparison to the number of jobs lost by corporate management tactics.

One thing is for sure, it's not creating any GOOD jobs! There may be more Promo Techs, but COME ON! We've all worked that job, and nobody liked it. The way most stations have it set up, the techs get paid $8 an hour or some drop in the bucket "talent fee" and they do all the bannering, set up the shot and prize table, greet the listeners, basically do the REAL work. Then you have the on air talent coming in and getting 10 times that of the techs to do a few breaks and shake hands. The rest of the big check goes to Sales and the higher ups. Meanwhile, a newcomer in the biz can't break into any market but #200 or somthing because every station in the big markets either have radio vets or God-forsaken JB&B on every shift of the day.

Corporate Radio eliminates jobs. Bottom Line.

 

[jamessteele]

Meanwhile, a newcomer in the biz can't break into any market but #200 or somthing because every station in the big markets either have radio vets or God-forsaken JB&B on every shift of the day.

Corporate Radio eliminates jobs. Bottom Line.

...And program directors who don't want to mold there part time jocks so those jocks can eventually become good enough to get a job. I remember being sorrounded by tons of part time people who would go out and set up remotes and dub in syndicated weekend shows. These part timers dreams were to get on the air, and they were never given the chance. Saturday 12am-6am is a great time for someone to learn.

PD's...put them on the weekend overnight shift, aircheck them, and make them become better than you.