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CLEAR CHANNEL GUILLOTINE STILL WORKS

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I offer up public condolences to WRVV's afternoon drive jock Jeni Gipe, thanked for her years of service with a shiny new Clear Channel severance package. Jeni is the consummate professional, opinionated yet diplomatic, street-wise and wry, but sweet and funny as hell.

DJ Hobie (Barry Daubert) was also jettisoned without fanfare, after years of handling the most despised shift the industry has: overnight overseer of automated stations. He did a boatload of production for the entire cluster, as well, and was often the de facto recipient of all the minor tasks that daytime crews didn't have regular opportunities to do.

WRVV promotions director Layne Greenholt was deemed unnecessary by whatever Great And Powerful Oz actually decides these things. Layne is the type of guy whose mere presence can make your job more fun to go to.

And yours truly, Rob Wilber, a part-timer who did three whole shifts in the last two months, was enough of a drain on the budget to warrant termination. Again! Hilariously, I am also getting a severance package, worth several times what I earned from CC in the last quarter.

When I went in to trade my building key for my "Christmas bonus", however, Jeni, Hobie, and Layne were already gone. There were two manila envelopes left. The top one was mine...

[to be continued]
 
As a note one of the people Clear Chanel eliminated, his wife is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Clear Channel, the company with a heart of stone!
 
According to the front page of this website, Clear Channel Radio President/CEO John Hogan was supposed to have a webinar yesterday to unveil the new "strategy" for small and medium markets to make increased use of National Programming Platform shows.

He probably figured, "**** it, there's no one left to talk to."

I know this for certain: this is one Harrisburg listener who won't be "reached" by their National Programming Platform.
 
Greg Stucki, a former Cumulus employee at WSOX almost died in January and no one from Cumulus even called to find out how he was doing, so CC isn't the only uncaring group.
 
If you want a laugh, I mean a laugh in a sad, shake your head and sigh sort of a way, go to the front page and take in CC CEO Bob Pittman's take on this whole thing. How easy it must be for some people to rationalize the harm and distress they cause to others. Perhaps one day Mr. Pittman will benefit from a just such a "reallocation of resources" when his position gets in the way of corporate profits. What a sad, sad world he must live in.
 
bossjock 56 said:
I understand that the Cumulus guillotine also fell in Harrisburg and York this week. The body count is rising.
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Sources say Moe Rock was shown the door and an office person in the Camp Hill facility. Middays will now be voicetracked. Keeping up with the Cumulus policy of no live middays. So what does this mean for the live midday talents at SOX, WINK 103, and WIOV? Can't imagine all of them surviving.
 
Rob WHO?? Another no-name wannabe complaining.

Yeah, Clearcut Channel and Cumu-less are scumbags, but no one cares at the FCC or anywhere else for that matter.
 
Word has it that Larry K. Scott, was also shown the door after nearly 30 years with Susquehanna...now Cumulus. Middays are now voicetracked on SOX. Oh...and Multiplexor...you say...who cares? The good people who are out in the street and their families....THAT'S WHO!
 
Sorry to hear about Larry, a good personality and a good person. 30 years working in the same building and...bye bye. Yet another who has given all of his working life to entertaining people on the radio is rendered obsolete.
 
Multiplexor....hopefully if you are ever in the position to be let go people on this site will show you more sympathy than your showed Rob Wilbor.

Wishing luck to all who have been let go at CC and Cumulus.
 
From yesterday's Radio Info news page:

Jeff Hurley will have a lot less free time on his hands. The morning host for CHR WLAN-FM (96.9) has been appointed by Clear Channel to become Operations Manager for their four-station cluster in Lancaster and Reading, Pennsylvania. Hurley will also oversee adult standards WLAN-AM (1390), rock WRFY-FM (102.5) & oldies WRAW-AM (1340). The promotion comes after Clear Channel cut staff in many markets, and named Dan Lankford Regional Market Manager and J.T. Bosch as Regional Programming Manager for the Lancaster and Reading markets. Lankford and Bosch will also oversee Clear Channel stations in Harrisburg, Allentown and Williamsport.
 
To a good friend Larry K, I wish you all the best. You are a class act! Cheap Channel and Cumulus never have cared for experience or talent.
 
So many talented broadcasters in Central PA have been shown the door the past couple of years. Hopefully this is the end of the cuts.

Truth is if one wants to try to continue in radio, search out a smaller company outside of Central PA. There are no jobs to be had here.
 
Our daughter was a year from graduating high school, our youngest son three years. Plus, my wife had a seizure and needed a knee replacement. As of this date no one at Cumulus or CC has called to inquire about family. I was told that I was making "too much money," along with being riduculed and cursed before a severance packaged was granted. Meantime, I have moved on and received far greater benefits from another employer. So much for experience.
 
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