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CUMULUS FIRES SAVANNAH MM & GSM

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jharmon

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The Cumulus "suits" have done it again in Savannah. Their regional VP out of Atlanta summoned the MM and GSM to the station this past Sunday night and fired them both. Can you imagine being fired on Sunday of a holiday weekend? As has been stated on this board for a long time, Cumulus Savannah has been losing audience and revenue to CC for a long time now and soon they will hire their 5th MM in 5 years!! Too bad for the guys who were fired. Both of them arrived well under a year ago.
 
It's the gift that keep giving. Hire people, untrain them, demean them, unfund their success and wait til the most painful time of the year to relieve them of their doomed misery.

2011 ---- the next year of a company making billions when they could have invested a little and made trillions.

I wonder if the Federal Unemployment figures ever breakdown the number of fired/out of work people once employeed by Crockulus.
 
Word comes from Gary "Hatchet-Man" Pizatti that Ira Rosenblatt, former GM of stations in PA and owners of stations in Northeast will be new MM effective 1/17/11.

What's the over/under on Ira's tenure?
 
This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. There are some good people in that building; and, the stations are great brands in the market. It’s unfortunate that the corporate office doesn’t value either.
 
Tibbs2 said:
2011 ---- the next year of a company making billions when they could have invested a little and made trillions.
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I do not think they have any money to invest!. One Citadel’s publicly stated reasons for rejecting Cumulus’s merger offer was Storm Cloud has a big chunk of debt that has to be refinanced at the end of this year. If I were a Cumulus employee, I would not make any financial commitments (mortgage, apartment lease, car payment, credit card etc.) that did not have an unemployment escape clause.
 
Fact: The only company in Savannah that has it together is Clear Channel. They are stable. Their stations win. They have good management.

The others lack leadership and certainly the skills to win big.

There are exceptions within clusters, but they are few and far between.
 
Mediawatch....you have your "fact" right on this one for sure. I've noticed for a long time how Triad and Cumulus constantly change managers, talent, format positioning etc. It's almost like they continue to search for the one thing CC has going for it for at least 5 years....and that is their leadership. Their MM has been there about that long probably, their OM has been stable for a long time and all of their formats have been unchanged for even longer. True theyve reduced their staff, added imported programming and done lots of other things to streamline their operation. But what hasnt suffered is their ratings or their revenues I bet. The other companies should learn a lesson on this one. Hire a strong MM and focus on strenthening rather than constantly changing. The next Cumulus guy will have a tough time cracking the CC advantages in Savannah and Hilton Head.......
 
Ira Rosenblatt was once with NJ based Nassau Broadcasting and was fired after getting a little too trigger happy and buying every station he could find in New England, paying big bucks to move into or renovate studios only to have the stations not make the kind of money they THOUGHT they could quickly enough. They failed to realize they were in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont and not NJ or PA.

Oops.
 
ThatGuyOnTheRadio said:
Ira Rosenblatt was once with NJ based Nassau Broadcasting and was fired after getting a little too trigger happy and buying every station he could find in New England, paying big bucks to move into or renovate studios only to have the stations not make the kind of money they THOUGHT they could quickly enough. They failed to realize they were in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont and not NJ or PA.

Oops.
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Huh?
 
Ira is a smart guy and a good broadcaster who has spent too much of his career with troubled companies. But, that's what troubleshooters do--tackle situations that aren't performing and try to inject some life into them. So Savannah is the next project.

Hey, it's a living.
 
amfmxm said:
Ira is a smart guy and a good broadcaster who has spent too much of his career with troubled companies. But, that's what troubleshooters do--tackle situations that aren't performing and try to inject some life into them. So Savannah is the next project.

Hey, it's a living.
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Well, if he was looking for a troubled company I think he's hit paydirt! Eureka!
 
amfmxm said:
Ira is a smart guy and a good broadcaster who has spent too much of his career with troubled companies. But, that's what troubleshooters do--tackle situations that aren't performing and try to inject some life into them. So Savannah is the next project.

Hey, it's a living.
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I’m familiar Ira's with episodes in NH prior to Nassau and with Nassau… He is not a bottom up manager, or a players’ coach as is said in sports. I think most of Cumulus employees have suffered as a result of their top down style. Which is exactly what Ira brings to the table. If you’re a supportive people first manage Cumulus is not a place you’ll thrive. Don't expect the trend to change with Ira in Savannah, there will be a new guy next year too!
 
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