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Cutbacks at Citadel/ABC Dallas

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bucwhyl

Banned
Starting with Steve Nichols. More heads expected to roll.
 
Re: Clarification

The downsizing is actually at ABC Radio Networks.
 
The Radio Networks are still using the ABC name.
 
Bud saw it coming,and retired. He got out while the getting out was good. ABC,another
victim of consolidation. They use to callit radio.
 
Citadel bought the ABC O & Os and the ABC Radio Networks. The networks are still using the ABC name. (The ESPN & Disney O & Os were not included in the sale).
 
Is Westwood One still really using the NBC Radio Network name? Where I live I haven't heard a station carrying NBC Radio network news in a very long time.

It strikes me as funny that Disney would sell off the ABC Radio Network and some of the crown jewels of radio the ABC O&O's while they keep the Radio Disney and ESPN stations. The Radio Disney stations are for the most part a rag tag group of inferior signals. I guess the problem is who would want them?
 
ABC Radio was a division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) focused on AM radio and FM radio broadcasting. Twenty-two of ABC Radio's top stations, as well as ABC's talk and music networks, are now owned by Forstmann Little & Company's Citadel Broadcasting unit. The deal did not include Radio Disney or ESPN Radio, or the five ESPN Radio stations owned by Disney, although with very few ESPN stations like WYOS in Binghamton, New York, KKML in Colorado Springs, and KESP in Modesto, California are already owned by Citadel. Disney's ABC News unit will also still produce ABC News Radio programming for distribution by Citadel.

The acquisition of ABC Radio by Citadel Broadcasting was officially completed on June 12, 2007.[3]

-- Wikipedia
 
copydesk2 said:
ABC Radio was a division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) focused on AM radio and FM radio broadcasting. Twenty-two of ABC Radio's top stations, as well as ABC's talk and music networks, are now owned by Forstmann Little & Company's Citadel Broadcasting unit. The deal did not include Radio Disney or ESPN Radio, or the five ESPN Radio stations owned by Disney, although with very few ESPN stations like WYOS in Binghamton, New York, KKML in Colorado Springs, and KESP in Modesto, California are already owned by Citadel. Disney's ABC News unit will also still produce ABC News Radio programming for distribution by Citadel.

The acquisition of ABC Radio by Citadel Broadcasting was officially completed on June 12, 2007.[3]

-- Wikipedia
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And given the recent widespread panic of Wiki articles and their impending validity, who do you think wrote this one? Hmmmm .... :eek:
 
When you consider the quality of djs on the ABC Radio Networks and the fact that they only talk 4 or 5 times an hour.....fire all of them.....automate all the formats.....Who would know the difference?
 
Until now, ABC formats still used CDs. The recent changeover to Audio Vaults makes it real easy to voice-track. The concept of voice-tracking on a syndicated satellite-fed format never much appealled to me. As a local radio operator, if I want voice-tracking, I'll do it right here. If I want live, I'll use the network.

A few years ago, ABC pulled the ol' voice-track trick on their "Unforgettable" standards format, and didn't tell the affiliates. We noticed it when the old-timers started retiring, and when the songs no longer ended exactly at the top of the hour.

I've noticed more of that (songs not ending properly at the top) on the ABC/Citadell AC format recently.

Hmmm...
 
Since when has new ownership at ANY station (or network, in this case) ever taken an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?" attitude? I'm noticing several formats missing from the network now, and no doubt others will be tweaked (like Stardust has by combining it with Memories) as they get around to them. Everybody's too interested in leaving their little "mark" on something, instead of leaving well-enough alone, in the cases where that's the logical choice.

Voicetracking has been in the mix there as far as I can remember. There was a separate division for it that was going to be dissolved about 4 years ago, but I don't think that ever happened. Perhaps it's not done on all formats, but I once knew of a couple of people who were making comfortable livings from voicetracking at the network. Those may have been for cases like 97.5-K-Lake who wanted an ABC jock completely dedicated to their local station for a given shift (i.e. a Steve Eberhart doing all their chatter and breaks with local IDs, local info, local interest stories, etc...not generic stuff as you'd hear on the network feed.)

Anyone know how Scott Shannon's "True Oldies" is doing, as in how many affiliates? That was a hot property about three years ago, but I'm not hearing about any nationwide saturation of it. If you like KLUV without the 13 seconds of DJ chatter every 10 songs, it's a great format...skews older, but hits oldies fans with an 11,000-song playlist with many 'ahhh' songs, with sort of a "Grandpa Jack" approach ("Playing what SCOTT wants.") Maybe one day I'll share my board-op nightmare story from "True Oldies" and getting hotlined by "THE" Scott Shannon so many times I lost count. :p
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
When you consider the quality of djs on the ABC Radio Networks and the fact that they only talk 4 or 5 times an hour.....fire all of them.....automate all the formats.....Who would know the difference?
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We DO have personality at ABC- it is simply LOCAL REFERENCES that we do not mention. I don't know of anyone on ABC AC, Oldies Radio, the Country formats or Hot AC that DO NOT put personality into their shows.

Get a job on-air with ABC. Learn how to run a NETWORK and then return to this board and make an EDUCATED statement.
 
MikeShannon914 said:
Since when has new ownership at ANY station (or network, in this case) ever taken an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?" attitude? I'm noticing several formats missing from the network now, and no doubt others will be tweaked (like Stardust has by combining it with Memories) as they get around to them. Everybody's too interested in leaving their little "mark" on something, instead of leaving well-enough alone, in the cases where that's the logical choice.

Voicetracking has been in the mix there as far as I can remember. There was a separate division for it that was going to be dissolved about 4 years ago, but I don't think that ever happened. Perhaps it's not done on all formats, but I once knew of a couple of people who were making comfortable livings from voicetracking at the network. Those may have been for cases like 97.5-K-Lake who wanted an ABC jock completely dedicated to their local station for a given shift (i.e. a Steve Eberhart doing all their chatter and breaks with local IDs, local info, local interest stories, etc...not generic stuff as you'd hear on the network feed.)

Anyone know how Scott Shannon's "True Oldies" is doing, as in how many affiliates? That was a hot property about three years ago, but I'm not hearing about any nationwide saturation of it. If you like KLUV without the 13 seconds of DJ chatter every 10 songs, it's a great format...skews older, but hits oldies fans with an 11,000-song playlist with many 'ahhh' songs, with sort of a "Grandpa Jack" approach ("Playing what SCOTT wants.") Maybe one day I'll share my board-op nightmare story from "True Oldies" and getting hotlined by "THE" Scott Shannon so many times I lost count. :p
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Yes Mike, several years ago there were a number of affiliates that were voice-tracked. Many decided to go with a live network feed and get away from tracking. From what I understand, there are now only a handful of VT affiliates. At KLAK, just like at other stations, VT jocks do regular shifts just like at the local or live network level but they use local info. But, for KLAK, I heard changes are on the horizon for the weekends.
 
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