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Sad news out of WRBO. Henry Nelson is out as PD at Soul Classics 103.5.
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How many more nonessential humans need to be eliminated before machines taken their rightful place as rulers of radio?
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Henry was a good PD, but, an OFF air PD at that. These days you be ready to wear more than one hat. And one important hat with Cumulus is that all PDs do an airshift.
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Dont be surprised when CC trys to force Primiere to pull Steve Harvey off Cumulus and move him to WDIA. Can you say Bobby O Jay in the afternoon
"How many more nonessential humans need to be eliminated before machines taken their rightful place as rulers of radio?" Yup! The more they can squeeze in a month out of it, the more the bonus is! Who gives a damn what the company looks like in 5 years. They'll have collected their money long before it all fails.
thanks for the timely update.
Oh, and my friend also told me Jerry Dean was let go at Entercom. Gee, watch Entercom stock skyrocket. They think that's what it's all about. Idiots, all of them.
isanybodythere said:
If that one's true, I won't shed many tears just because of my experience with him.
Back in 2003, when KSUD closed, I was working at Hope House and there was a weekend shift opening up at the River. I knew going in that my on-air presence needed a LOT of work, even to the point that until I got the shot with Total Traffic I thought I would have the best chance to do well in radio in production, but I gave the audition my best effort. I sucked at a couple points and KNEW I sucked, but still...best effort. Anyway, he called me and let me know that I didn't get the job. This conversation ensued:
Me: Thanks for the opportunity. Going forward, was there anything that stood out that I could work on to improve my abilities?
Jerry: No, everything was fine. We just decided to go a different direction.
I get it, I'm not hired and you don't have to spend a lot of time making me better. But I knew that I didn't do great, so how hard would it have been to actually be helpfully critical?
Like I said, no tears.
Wow. Déjà vu, Bird.
I got the bug again back around that time and sent an air check to Jerry. I got much the same treatment.
Contrast that with John Long circa 1979. John spent 5 seconds telling me I didn’t get the WHBQ weekend gig, then a good 5 minutes or so telling me what I could to do to make myself better. John probably has long forgotten that conversation…but I haven’t.
Haven’t forgotten the Dean conversation either, but for different reasons.
I got the bug again back around that time and sent an air check to Jerry. I got much the same treatment.
Contrast that with John Long circa 1979. John spent 5 seconds telling me I didn’t get the WHBQ weekend gig, then a good 5 minutes or so telling me what I could to do to make myself better. John probably has long forgotten that conversation…but I haven’t.
Haven’t forgotten the Dean conversation either, but for different reasons.
Geebus you guys! At least you got a phone call. Most PD's/OM's just blow you off.
RadeoEngineer said:
I called him. I'm fully in the camp of "make yourself a nuisance till they talk to you." ;D
HAH! I've made myself such a nuisance no one will talk to me anymore.
RadeoEngineer said:
Then you're doing it wrong.
I got up to "call three times a day" if I remember correctly.
I think to a large degree, I've always done it wrong. That's what separates me from the over achievers.
RadeoEngineer said:
That....I completely understand.
I get it, I'm not hired and you don't have to spend a lot of time making me better. But I knew that I didn't do great, so how hard would it have been to actually be helpfully critical?
Like I said, no tears.
That is an interesting issue. I have gotten very little advice over the years about my on-air presentation. Looking back on it, I was too dead on the mic, when I started. Then, I got way too hyper on the mic. Finally, after a ton of trial and error, I found something of a happy medium. Of course, I would be the first to tell you that my voice is lousy. By the way, starting out at a college radio station that was not designed to train students to be in commercial radio did not help. I'm not talking about WUMR. My first college radio station was located in the middle of nowhere about 160 miles southeast of Memphis. That ought to place it pretty well.
Like I said, no tears.
That is an interesting issue. I have gotten very little advice over the years about my on-air presentation. Looking back on it, I was too dead on the mic, when I started. Then, I got way too hyper on the mic. Finally, after a ton of trial and error, I found something of a happy medium. Of course, I would be the first to tell you that my voice is lousy. By the way, starting out at a college radio station that was not designed to train students to be in commercial radio did not help. I'm not talking about WUMR. My first college radio station was located in the middle of nowhere about 160 miles southeast of Memphis. That ought to place it pretty well.
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Oh, if I had been at the old WMSB! I was eight years too late for that. I was at the current 14000-watt station that school has. Oh, how I regret not taping myself more when I was there? I got way too sucked into the whole college experience thing without having a real plan as to what I was going to do after college. Because you really can't depend on anyone else to give you pointers, you've just got to listen to yourself and make your own improvements.
The guidelines were, "show up", "sign transmitter log", "don't leave dead air", "get meter reading", "don't pop CD out in midplay", "don't play NAQ (not air quality) songs with profanity", "don't curse on the air", "stay awake", and "announce call letters and songs played". I was guilty of leaving dead air, popping the CD out in midplay twice, and playing NAQ songs on occasion. You'd be so desperate to find a song that was good scanning through a CD that you wouldn't pay attention to the NAQ label for certain tracks. You'd start it on the air and then look down in horror at the CD case and realize that the song was labeled "NAQ".
Oh, if I had been at the old WMSB! I was eight years too late for that. I was at the current 14000-watt station that school has. Oh, how I regret not taping myself more when I was there? I got way too sucked into the whole college experience thing without having a real plan as to what I was going to do after college. Because you really can't depend on anyone else to give you pointers, you've just got to listen to yourself and make your own improvements.
The guidelines were, "show up", "sign transmitter log", "don't leave dead air", "get meter reading", "don't pop CD out in midplay", "don't play NAQ (not air quality) songs with profanity", "don't curse on the air", "stay awake", and "announce call letters and songs played". I was guilty of leaving dead air, popping the CD out in midplay twice, and playing NAQ songs on occasion. You'd be so desperate to find a song that was good scanning through a CD that you wouldn't pay attention to the NAQ label for certain tracks. You'd start it on the air and then look down in horror at the CD case and realize that the song was labeled "NAQ".
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