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Citadel cuts?

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MikeShannon914

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Saw some generic chatter on Facebook about some cuts at Citadel today (Friday.) Anyone know who? Local or ABCRN?
 
Most, perhaps all overnight jocks were let go at ABCRN. Overnights will now be voicetracked. One jock was moved to the evening shift on another format.
 
Citadel... Does anyone really care? 96.7 The Nap, KSCS and WBAP... Boring... feeling sleepy... z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z :-*
 
Those three will.cash cows. However I wouldn't be a bit shocked to see the news dept at wbap take a hit or two.
 
Any names? We've been AC and Hot AC affiliates for years and John Lacy was taken off the schedule as of Friday night. By the way, Dial-Global/Westwood/Jones was already tracking overnights.
 
Up until the point where they dropped ABC news, I would have guessed on cutting costs by dropping the overnight shift and just using ABC for top and bottom of the hour. That could still happen I guess.
Or just have a Metro feed. Does Citadel even pay the overnight spot, or are they Metro or Traffic.com?
 
The other name I heard was Lou Warren (former Star 105 and KQZY, I believe) who was working overnights at the network. Apparently this was a culling-out of the PT overnighters at ABCRN, so I'm sure voicetracking overnights across the network is the new deal. Far as WBAP, the ABC News at the top of the hour is merely carved into newsbites and spread throughout the locally-originated newscasts instead. There's no loss of affiliation or anything, if that's the impression. I believe Metro handles the overnight news anchor, but I'm not sure. I'm not sure as well if there's such a thing as a "Metro Newsfeed" anymore. Unless you take the ABC, CBS, CNN, IRN/USA or TSN feeds, I don't think there's many options these days for an hourly national/regional newscast, day or night.
 
Frankly TSN is a joke, and always has been. During his last months there, I heard Julius Graw decided to rebroadcast the same newsfeeds in back-to-back hours. I mean the same story order and exact word-for-word duplication? Isn't that skirting the FCC rules just a bit? I also heard he made a threat against KEOM. I understand that was one reason they )CBS) may have fired him.
 
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