Cuts Coming to Metro Networks?

[anderson]

As long as they supply a coal-fired dirigible for doing airborne traffic, I may be tempted to make the move.

 

[aaronread]

BTW, when I lived in Boston, there was a local number you could call to get into SmarTraveler's automated traffic report system. Dial in your route number and get a 30 second traffic report, stuff like that. Very handy service, completely free. Of course, the downside was that traffic invariably sucked the big one and there was no such thing as a viable alternate route in that mess. But you felt better knowing about it, I guess.

Is there anything like that for Rochester? I admit, hardly seems necessary...given that the sole place traffic backs up at all is 104 coming into 590, and 590 coming into 490. But it's handy for the routine accident that always happens on 490 near that mall between Victor and Bushnell's Basin....I swear, last winter I didn't go a single week without seeing at least two cars that had skidded off the highway on that stretch near the weigh stations.

 

[scooterodell]

You can get a live feed of 911 incidents online:

http://www.monroecounty.gov/safety-911.php

and there's this:

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/trafficreport.aspx?city=Rochester

 

[yankee_rose]

So does anyone know how things shook out in the Buffalo market? WBEN still has the same traffic. I honestly can't stomach most local commercial radio so I no longer listen. I didn't check around the dial to see if people are missing. I check in on 'BEN really fast and go back to NPR for in-depth, relevant reporting. Anyway, I worked for Metro on and off and the Buffalo office had some really good people. It would be a shame to see them without a gig. Metro Networks at the corporate level was always a flim-flam organization. They'd tell affiliates what they wanted to hear and do otherwise all in the name of getting their hooks into a market. Corporate didn't really provide the resources needed to their employees. When they did, it was crappy out of the box software that wasn't customized for the job and consequently it didn't work well.

 

[1234-1]

From what I have been told....Cheryl is at WJYE, Gordon is with Entercomm, Ruby is moving to Boston to cover Buffalo traffic from there. Tom Tran moved to LA to pursue his comedy and acting, Jay left awhile ago for WNED-AM, and Larry is looking.

 

[anderson]

Corporate didn't really provide the resources needed to their employees. When they did, it was crappy out of the box software that wasn't customized for the job and consequently it didn't work well.

Man, did you nail that one down. Up until the Rochester office was dissolved in 2006, we were still using Windows95 on all of our computers.

 

[yankee_rose]

Thanks for the updates, at least a few people landed on their feet. It was only a matter of time before that ship sunk. Too bad for the local people involved.