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Cumulus Cuts?

normhill007 said:
From what I heard 5 years ago, the ground radials are in "disrepair" as well as other major problems. Heard it would cost about a mil to bring it back. RIP
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before ron left warm, to go to work in iowa, he told citadel he and a friend would do the work, and said it would cost around 50,000 dollars. they turned it down..
 
I guess that's where the mil figure came from. I heard also that Citadel wanted 2.5 mil but with necessary repairs, it's unsellable.
 
Cumulus got rid of the old WARM jingles that used to play!!! I really miss the one that badmouthed competitor Gem 104 referring to them as "Rhinestone 105" along with mentioning their dozen 2-watt fm translators in every town. It ended with "The music you remember from that station that never forgot, 5-9-0 WARM" really sickens me what Cumulus is doing. Karma got them though, their stock has been going down for over a week straight.
 
Amazing the gall of the station.. Magic 93 is now running a promotion asking companies who are hiring new employees to contact them, so they can salute them and highlight them and i'm sure try to sell them advertising. At the same time, this is the station that has trimmed staff and let employees go that have devoted decades worth of time to these stations. I guess it's ok to rake in the business, but rake employees over the coals.
 
I put WARM on in the car today, out of curiousity after reading this thread.
The signal in Luzerne and Kingston was pathetic.
I might as well have been tuned into WAEB in Allentown.
They really need to do something quickly.
Of course that would cost money, I suppose.
 
Yes, they'd better do something soon before WARM ends up like WPLY in Pocono Summit. That station has the potential (even with true oldies) to output a very strong signal all through eastern PA, NY, even NJ. I'll keep dreaming though, Cumulus ain't putting money into any of their stations :(
 
Zenith Transoceanic said:
I put WARM on in the car today, out of curiousity after reading this thread.
The signal in Luzerne and Kingston was pathetic.
I might as well have been tuned into WAEB in Allentown.
They really need to do something quickly.
Of course that would cost money, I suppose.
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What do you expect from a company that laid off the local market engineer (who knew AM transmitters and directional antenna systems especially well), makes all decisions at corporate headquarters in Atlanta, and is now using an IT guy in Allentown to cover stations in Binghamton, Wilkes-Barre, Allentown, Reading, and Ephrata?

The local engineer was laid off in November. Back then, the transmitter needed tubes and that engineer had put in a purchase order for them. AFAIK, that P.O. may never have been approved or the lone surviving engineer in the region may be too overworked to install them. Or he may not know how to change tubes in the old-style transmitters without electrocuting himself!

What "benefit" did we get from the Cumulus-Citadel merger? Lousy programming, massive layoffs, and little or no maintenance of the technical facilities. (On WBSX/97.9X, a crappy syndicated show replaced Bone & Rebecca in morning drive and on Magic 93, Fran Pantuso, a longtime personality born and raised in Scranton, was laid off four days before Christmas.)

Cumulus...the power of radio! THE EPITOME OF C-H-E-A-P!
 
Calm down. You have to realize it's over. The radio of the 60's and 70's is gone and it's never coming back. Do you think Cumulus is the only cheap company out there? Some good people are getting screwed in the process, but isn't that always the way?
 
Isn't the FCC supposed to stop this sort of radio practices? The engineers safety is at risk not knowing anything about "The Mighty 590" as someone said earlier you could get severely hurt if you don't know what you're doing there.
 
NigelWick said:
Calm down. You have to realize it's over. The radio of the 60's and 70's is gone and it's never coming back. Do you think Cumulus is the only cheap company out there? Some good people are getting screwed in the process, but isn't that always the way?
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not only radio from the 60s and 70s, but todays radio also sucks. ive been looking for a station either am or fm in recent weeks, and i cant find one. the music stations, for the most part are automated, the talk station is so bad, i cant listen to it anymore, and even the local tv stations are horrible.. example.. fox 56 runs 4, 5 and sometimes even 6 station promos back to back before going back to programing, and there audio is like listning with ear muffs on.. if the on air people who have passed on from the 60s and 70s woke up today, they wouldnt believe it. and yes, alot of it has to do with the cooperate idiots who dont know a damn thing about broadcasting, or people, its all the bottom line now. the best thing to do these days is read some good books, play chess or checkers, and keep the tubes off.
 
I was considering whether that was the case myself the other day, after hearing an ad for catheters. It might have been all right, had it not been for the "no more painful twisting" "no more drippy mess" ad copy.
OK, I may be exaggerating, because I don't have the words in front of me, but I know l was wincing uncomfortably, and I've never even worn a catheter!
(And no, I don't just pee in my pants! ;D)
That's definitely a product that they should just say "new and improved" or something.
Well, at least I'll catch up on my reading.
 
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