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Clear Channel Canton Fumbles Thru Cutts Verdict

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If you listened to the Bobby Cutts verdict, simulcast on Canton area Clear Channel stations, you heard sweepers firing over the top of the reading of the verdict and Matt Patrick saying verdicts for all counts were not read, when they were. Very bush league.
 
That was a nice attempt to start a flame war, but your post is inaccurate.

I personally ran the board for the simulcast of three stations and Matt and Michael did an excellent job. The only sweepers that ran were special “The verdict is in” sweeps. I’d be happy to roll off a copy of the aircheck for you to listen more carefully, but I doubt you’d come forward to take me up on the offer.

Listening back to profiler of our stations, WHBC-AM and WAKR-AM, I believe we all did an incredible job of bringing the story to the airwaves.

Everywhere you went today, this was topic A, from Canton to Akron to Cleveland. Radio told the story, and told it well.
 
Airwave, I agree, they are nothing more than bush leauge. Take for example their recent efforts to raise money for the childrens hospital....


CLEAR CHANNEL Hot AC WKDD/AKRON wrapped up their three day "Have A Heart Do Your Part Radiothon" for AKRON Children's Hospital SUNDAY night. Morning team MATT PATRICK and ANGELA raised a record $1,000,760, an amazing number when you consider 90% of donations are from individuals.

PD KEITH KENNEDY says that over $360,000 was collected in spare change as part of WKDD's "Change Bandit" program. This is the first CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK station outside of a Top 25 market to raise over a million.


Only a million in 3 days? Amateurs!
 
Nice off topic post, Mr. Baylor. Ever heard of sticking to the subject?

I am sure the edited aircheck from kkennedy sounds wonderful.

I was listening to the bumbling, with several people. We were not hearing things. All one has to do is listen to any local CC station and you will regularly hear sloppy automation. WTAM is the worst, but Canton stations run a close second.
 
Also a lot of dead air on the Cutts broadcast on WHLO. I was tuning around and landed on 640 for at least 45 second of dead air. Seems to fit in with most of the other day parts. I like hearing the commercial breaks running over the shows and the year old Quinn show masterbation sweeper that plays every time that I tune in. Today, I enjoyed hearing a outdated announcement that the Daytona 500 would be on this Sunday. Over the weekend I was listening to the Handel law show, they go to break and come back with Glenn Beck then a break and back into the law show. During the Super Tuesday coverage I got to hear the Mark Levin show, a show that I don't think that 640 is even licensed to broadcast. Keep up the good work guys!
 
initforthemoney said:
Also a lot of dead air on the Cutts broadcast on WHLO. I was tuning around and landed on 640 for at least 45 second of dead air. Seems to fit in with most of the other day parts. I like hearing the commercial breaks running over the shows and the year old Quinn show masterbation sweeper that plays every time that I tune in. Today, I enjoyed hearing a outdated announcement that the Daytona 500 would be on this Sunday. Over the weekend I was listening to the Handel law show, they go to break and come back with Glenn Beck then a break and back into the law show. During the Super Tuesday coverage I got to hear the Mark Levin show, a show that I don't think that 640 is even licensed to broadcast. Keep up the good work guys!
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A day with only those few blunders is a good day for Clear Channel.

Clear Channel "told the story, and told it well." ::)
 
initforthemoney said:
It must be "one of those days" today. WHLO has been off the air for the last 10 minutes.
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The staff-cutting strategy of Clear Channel that leaves a station that's grossing nearly $100,000/month with only 1 and 3/4 people for an operations/programming/news staff will inevitably result in some automation glitches and human errors because 1 and 2 half people can't even monitor the station 24 hours a day. I know from my own experience as part of an operations staff of between 1 and 3 people for the past 4 years that mistakes do happen. I have to admit that I have secretly gloated when I hear dead air on WHLO, but I do believe Keith and the rest at Clear Channel are doing the best they can with limited resources. In the end - people still listen despite the mistakes, and yes Clear Channel still probably makes more money by running with a lower overhead instead of a bloated operation like WHBC. For what it's worth - I actually heard less dead air during the Cutts verdict on WHLO than on WHBC. Matt Patrick did a pretty decent job of filling the silence even though he did sound unexperienced in that kind of role. WCER had paid programming on during the first 20 minutes of waiting for the verdict and so just cut to the verdict itself for 5 minutes at 11am.
 
In the end - people still listen despite the mistakes, and yes Clear Channel still probably makes more money by running with a lower overhead instead of a bloated operation like WHBC. For what it's worth - I actually heard less dead air during the Cutts verdict on WHLO than on WHBC.
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"Bloated operation"? Maybe under the Beaverkettle regime, but not anymore. The Denver knuckleheads (Tm) mandated cuts in news and programming some time ago. Local programming on 1480 says bye bye after noon on the weekends and more or less every weekday evening after 7 when there's a not high school sporting event on the air. I'd argue that based on how WHBC bills itself as a news/talk operation *and* audience expectations of said format, 'HBC is just getting by.
I won't discuss the mess that is 94.1.

It's more proof that, that in terms of owners, bigger isn't necessarily better.
 
"Bloated operation"? Maybe under the Beaverkettle regime, but not anymore. The Denver knuckleheads (Tm) mandated cuts in news and programming some time ago. Local programming on 1480 says bye bye after noon on the weekends and more or less every weekday evening after 7 when there's a not high school sporting event on the air. I'd argue that based on how WHBC bills itself as a news/talk operation *and* audience expectations of said format, 'HBC is just getting by.
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Good point, I stand corrected








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