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Delmarva Broadcasting Lets Go Two On-Air People in Sussex/Salisbury/OC Market

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On Monday Delmarva Broadcasting let go Afternoon Drive Personality for 97.5/105.9 Cat Country/Morning host for 97.1 The Wave Mike Cheney, and News Director for WICO-FM/AM Bill Reddish. Last May or June they laid off their GM Joe Beall and put the GM of the Milford Cluster Mike Kazala in charge of both markets. It's definitely a sign of the times. Delmarva Broadcasting used to be the cluster that never let anyone go.

Mike Cheney was the long time Morning Show host on WQHQ/Q-105, he was let go from there in 2005 and shortly after joined Cat Country for afternoon drive/production.

Operations Manager Joe Edwards is now doing afternoons on Cat Country.
 
Given the state of communications, one person can mange several locations easily. And I really do not understand needing a news director at one of the small stations when they have WDEL.
 
I was thinking a similar thought. Delmarva could easily use WDEL as their flagship News/Sports station, and send feeds to their downstate stations that use news or sports. I heard a couple of down state news stories on WDEL today, so they are already covering downstate. Maybe they have one reporter down there who can do more extensive down state coverage and send feeds north to Wilmington, but having the news director at WDEL.

Delmarva has to compete with other stations including CC Delaware who have essentially a skeleton crew at their stations meaning their cost to run their stations is far less than Delmarva's are (of course the quality between WILM/WDOV and WDEL is gigantic with WDEL being far away the best news station of those three). WDEL is kind of a unique station, but a needed station as Delaware has so few sources of local news for upstate only: News Journal, WDEL, and to a lesser extent WILM/WDOV with their capsule version of Delaware news, and yes can't forget Channel 12's weekly news magazine "First". Lower Delaware does have the Salisbury TV stations, plus the Del State News and WGMD- Rehoboth for their coverage.
 
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