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Not sure if I have been "out of touch" with radio lately or whatever, but recently I was flipping thru the dial and it seems like some of the "old timers" are re appearing in the radio business.

I won't mention them all as I want to see if anyone else has noticed them, I heard four so far. For one, Bonny Diver (former DJ from Channel 97) is now doing afternoon traffic reports for CBS radio local affiliates.

Who else can be added? :D Enjoy!
 
clangham said:
Not sure if I have been "out of touch" with radio lately or whatever, but recently I was flipping thru the dial and it seems like some of the "old timers" are re appearing in the radio business.

I won't mention them all as I want to see if anyone else has noticed them, I heard four so far. For one, Bonny Diver (former DJ from Channel 97) is now doing afternoon traffic reports for CBS radio local affiliates.

Who else can be added? :D Enjoy!
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Bonnie Diver is the only one I could think of
 
Don't know if this qualifies but I would like to add Stan Savran. Although he retained his T.V. job after being let go by the morons at Clear Channel, he has clearly made a radio comeback with Guy Junker. "Stan, Guy, love the show".
 
Yeah--she's been doing a split shift--doing both AM & PM Drives @ CBS--But for how long? Metro is all but dissolved in Pittsburgh
 
Bonny has been doing traffic for a handful of stations contracted with Metro for the last three years or so. She is still technically an employee of the company but works out of the CBS studios since Westwood One pulled the plug on Pittsburgh in November. Westwood One faces a large debt payment at the end of this month that its cash flow won't cover. Its anybody's guess what happens after the 28th to what is left of the company and its remaining employees.
 
Funny how WW1 could have such $ flow problems but yet pony up big bucks for NFL football (including the Super Bowl) and the launch of Fred Thompson. It's ridiculous to read some of the crap that's going on in radio. The everyday people that keep these companies going are being jettisoned, and for what?
 
The problem as I understand it with Metro was that the business model was largely based on barter. Hard to pay employees and write rent checks when there's no cash flow.
 
Most of the barter went away when Westwood One bought the company from David Sapperstein. The problem with the business model was in part a bucketload of really expensive bad programming ideas including Olympic coverage, Bill O'Reilly, and Dennis Miller. Not one of them came (or comes) within 20% of breaking even. Now add a layer of very expensive senior VPs making all of these bad decisions being paid on guaranteed contracts, and stir in a dollup of stupid aircraft/advertising contracts and you find yourself upside down to the tune of about $300 million.
 
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