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Clarksenior out at WREC

Wool said:
You still rolling your R's Tom?
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Yes, rolling my R's, it's a gift.

I think you guys have it all wrong about CC. Clear Channel is just there as radio evolves to help it through. So many stations would be off the air entirely with no signal if it hadn't been for the folks at CC spending their money to keep all these stations on the air. Instead of letting them dy completely, CC is there to pick up the pieces and streamline it so it can still exist. My show starts in a couple of weeks and they are not paying me a lot of bucks but it's all about the radio dream. We have to go on (even if it drives us back to drink again..lol) and keep the flicker of radio hope going. Like George Flinn has. His is the new blueprint the way radio should be nationwide. I'll have a double on the rocks mam.

Old Tom G
Still Alive and Kicking
and rolling his R's on commercials
 
Old Tom G, I get your point. CC has simply overdone it with too much automation and too much syndication in this market. CC did a great job with Rock 103 and WREC for the longest time. Clear Channel became "Cheap Channel".
 
snazzyjazzy said:
Old Tom G, I get your point. CC has simply overdone it with too much automation and too much syndication in this market. CC did a great job with Rock 103 and WREC for the longest time. Clear Channel became "Cheap Channel".
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Well when I get in there I am going to make some real changes..it's going to be like that show set in the 60's Mad Men. Drinking all day and carousing all night. Yep, I can't wait to set those people straight with lots of bourbon and women. Woo hoo. Wait and see when I get those stuffed shirts all switched over to MY kind of radio. They'll all be rolling their R's!
 
OldTomG good luck with CC. I've to agree with you that due to CC efforts there would be a lot of radio stations that would be dark today. But for CC its all about quantity not quality. I look forward to hearing your brand of radio and booze. But the Andrew Clarksenior non-compete is just petty. Pulling a 15 year old non-compete agreement out and forcing him off the air. I call foul. Give the man the chance to put food on the table.

PS I hope your lawyer looks at your agreement before you go on the air.
 
Old Tom G is a real pro. He'll have ratings and revenues up in no time and have a lot of fun doing it too.
 
snazzyjazzy said:
CC is quite protective of its non-compete clauses. Maybe, it does apply to part-timers, too.
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It only applies if they signed it. Heck, twice I have had my part-time employers try to get me to sign a NC. Both times I simply ignored their request and they quit asking.

But, yeah. Have a lawyer look at your contract. It may be worth a couple of hundred bucks to know your situation. But generally, those documents are take-it-or-leave-it deals. If you don't want to sign, you can always walk.

Lawyers. Can't trust a one of 'em.

DE
 
Radioguy914 said:
Now CCR pulls a 15 year old non-compete out and gets Andrew pulled from his new gig. Interetsing to see if that sticks, since they changed the condition of his employment from full time to part time when they cut him back to weekends. The saga continues.......
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Sure, it would stick. He WAS full time within the past 6 months, which is the USUAL term of the CC non-compete covenants. I suppose one could make an argument that the clock started ticking when he was reduced to PT (I would have to read the doc to know) but, in no event, would that change have nullified the NC.

I suppose one could argue novation, but there would need to be the facts to support that.

DE
 
Clear Channel must have blinked. I understand Andrew was on the air this morning. 1 point for the the little guy 0 point Evil Empire
 
It has always been, and always will be, crazy to sign a no compete that applies if you are fired. If you quit - yeah, OK. But as I told one employer many moons ago: “If you sever our ties, that means you do not think I am an asset to this station, and by extension a threat to you at another station in this market. So remove the termination condition from the NC”. They removed it, too.

But, if you really want the job and can deal with the possible consequences, well...
 
Well, here's the thing I enjoyed about the non-competes that I haven't signed, and DE will love this. You sign one piece of paper that says you can be fired at any time for no reason, then you sign a non-compete "in consideration for continued employment". One negates the other, as far as any claim you have to a job, and in combination, they give the employer the exclusive right to make sure you can't do what you do professionally to provide for your family for x amount of months. There is NO upside to the employee, all the cards are in the hands of the employer.
 
I'm glad I've never had to deal with the non-compete stuff or CC. I wonder, though, if refusal to sign a non-compete on the front end would keep you from getting employed in the first place.
 
Yes. Of course it would stop you from getting employed. Signing would be a condition of employment.

BTW: Mr. Clarksenior is OFF the air today. In fact, everyone is. WKIM seems to be down; I'm hearing Shreveport on 98.9 right now.

DE
 
Blown fuse in the exciter..back up and running. Andrew was not subject to a non-compete after moving to part time....CCR looses!
 
Radioguy914 said:
Blown fuse in the exciter..back up and running. Andrew was not subject to a non-compete after moving to part time....CCR looses!
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A common ailment in both aging transmitters and engineers.
 
Oh I'm gonna MAKE Clear Channel sign a non compete clause, I'll set those guys straight. When I get ready to leave they can't hire anyone for 6 mos named Tom. I'm going to show them what I learned at the house of the Flinn Boys radio the way it should be.
Let's hear it for the Flinn boys who know how radio should be done right!


I'll have a double scotch on the rocks and put it on my tab bar keep.
Old Tom G still alive & drinking and kicking

snazzyjazzy said:
CC is quite protective of its non-compete clauses.  Maybe, it does apply to part-timers, too.
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