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COYOTE AND CATHY FIRED ?

Yes, I do own a station, just like you, an FCC "Licensed" station. Right now, it's not streaming on the net, but it will. For FCC "licensed" broadcasters like you and I, BMI, ASCAP, and them RMLC have made it possible without all the big fees. Also, be ready for IBOC. I not totaly for it, especially on AM, due to the interference cause to adjacent channels, but the commission is going to push this down our throats. What transmitter do you have?

I don't do voice work, just engineering.

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So those of us who own or run stations, if we stream, then were safe, according to your analogy? I've streamed all of our stations up to this point.

You bought a Wheatstone/AudioArts Console. Hmmm! Please don't tell me you own a radio station. We can only hope that you do voice work, or have an internet only station.
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Is there any updates on where Coyote and Cathy are going? Or if there is any chance anyone of them have been rehired anywhere?
 
Not to start a flaming war on formats or anything like that, is there any updates on C&C's possible resurfacing anywhere? As I understand it, their contracts with Cumulus expire May '07 and May '07 has almost expired.
 
Aren't contracts for non-competes generally void once a broadcasting entity breaks the employment contract with the air personality?
A good attorney would state in the contract that the person would remain on the air, in the specific time slot, at a specific rate of pay and
should their services no longer be needed during the term of the contract, that the company will pay the employee through the expiration
of such contract. The terminated ex-employee is free to pursue employment elsewhere. At that point, generally speaking, once the employee is hired by another company the severance pay ends. Non-competes are pretty much legally worthless in Tennessee anyway, right?

Coyote and Cathy may very well realize the level of income will be substantially less and just collect the higher pay while the option was available. Then again, where can they go? 92.1, 92.9, 95.5, 96.3, 97.1, 97.9, 99.7, 100.1, 101.1, 102.5, 102.9, 103.3, 104.5, 105.9, 106.7, 107.5....

Hmmm!
 
Aye, Mr. Tibbs, so ye don't know then, eh laddie? Have pity on the poor air talent in today's radio world, fer so many o' the contracts in corporate radio are burdened with heinous non-competes the likes of which ye've ne'er seen! Yes I'm talking about non-competes which are in effect e'en when the corporation makes them walk the plank! Now mind ye, most continue to pay the talent through the length of the non-compete while said talent lives it up in many a port, so it's mighty hard to tell who's laughin' the heartiest at the contract signing. Still, termination only ends when corporate radio says it ends, 'cause so many times the talent is willin' to place themselves into modern-day indentured servitude just to get that opportunity to serve on the crew.

DISCLAIMER ---- No I haven't seen that pirate movie too many times... it's just that when I think of corporate radio, for some reason I also think of the Jolly Roger! Arrrgh!
 
Saw Cathy a week ago. Says she's enjoying the time with her 12-year old son and her husband and not really looking for anything. If I had her pool, house and boat on the lake, I wouldn't either. She said when she last talked to Coyote he's liking his time away from getting up just after he got to bed. Same comment as about Cathy if I lived on a houseboat like his.
Although, and I'm guessing, if someone came up with the right show and the right $$, they'd both jump.
And that's just my guess, not speaking for them.
Buddy
 
Isn't Coyote somewhere near 65 years old anyway? Heck, I'd just take my retirement, my medicare and head for the pasture. Fighting ratings, consultants and all other crap that major media corporations have turned local radio into over the last 25 years probably just isn't worth the grief for ol' Coyote.
 
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