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Doug Goudie part of iHeart Albany layoffs
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I find it interesting that the departure of Doug Goudie from WGY in the Albany market seems to be receiving a lot more attention on the Boston radio board than it has received in Albany...
Although we all love radio and for those not apart of the industry but glorify the careers, there is an evil and unforgiving side to it. It is as cruel as it is kind and will chop you down as faster than will build you up. “VB” is a class act in and out of the studio and has, I am sure, friends that will help him out.
Doug had that Red Sox cap in his farewell vid. Years on RKO w Howie incl his short lived "Pit" nightly show, Ch 25. Think he did fill ins on 96.9 for awhile.
Time flies by: what year was it when Howie tried to go to 96.9, unsuccessfully? IIRC, a mere 17 years ago. 2007.
Time flies by: what year was it when Howie tried to go to 96.9, unsuccessfully? IIRC, a mere 17 years ago. 2007.
Doug, nick named VB here in the Boston market, was well known from the Howie Carr show. Later he worked for WFXT TV Fox 25 losing that when Fox sold the station.
Sounds like he didn't catch on in the Albany - at least well enough to have been spared from the iHeart chopping block and to have the Albany board talking about it.
Joe Pags must still has some (or all) of his syndication still in effect. If I remember correctly, Talk 1200 is iHeart so that company is still using him. He is also still on WRKO, another iHeart.
He is still syndicated nationally it's just his local show in San Antonio that was axed by corporate.
I wonder if his WOAI show was a different local show (with different content)…or the place/flagship where he produces his syndicated show ?
If the latter, I wonder if WOAI would be apt to take his syndicated show in its it’s place
It would be cheaper. ;-)
If you watch his video, it sounds like they're having that discussion. The problem is his syndicator isn't Premiere.
Like Doug Goudie...Joe "Pags" also spent time in the Albany market...having been the news anchorman on WRGB-Channel 6 some years back. Channel 6 is owned by Sinclair by the way which makes a lot of sense...
This is still happening as of last night.
Lags still has his national show. I Heart dropped his local San Antonio show. He’s still in the top 20 or 30 rated hosts in Talkers Heavy Hundred.
Sorrry, Pags, not “lags. Purely a typo.
He’s only Joe Lags when he’s late
Yeah, he had a post on social media a while back after he got axed by WOAI about how he had to scramble between thursday and monday to get everything normally handled by WOAI in place so he could get back on the air to his syndicated stations on Monday evening.
Well, if a radio power-house like Joe Ligotti can't make a comeback, I don't know how VB can do it.
If Krazy K00nah were smart he'd start getting to work on all those "going national, bay-be" syndication deals so he's not out in the cold when the axe comes to WKRO. I mean, it's only been... what... a decade? ... since he said he was "going national"
More cuts on the way, this time up in Bangor ME where Stephen King is shutting down his WZON, WKIT, and WZLO--citing lack of revenue (they never
really did well) and his advanced age (77). So some folks up there will be jobless soon, as the stations are shutting down at the end of the month.
King, a huge Sox fan, was upset a few yrs ago when the Sox network got 92.9 FM up there to pick up the games without even giving him
an offer to renew.
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From Dan Shaugnessy's Curse of the Bambino (written before The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon)
"Stephen King said to me, 'you know, I never did write a horror story about baseball'.
...But I have."
really did well) and his advanced age (77). So some folks up there will be jobless soon, as the stations are shutting down at the end of the month.
King, a huge Sox fan, was upset a few yrs ago when the Sox network got 92.9 FM up there to pick up the games without even giving him
an offer to renew.
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From Dan Shaugnessy's Curse of the Bambino (written before The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon)
"Stephen King said to me, 'you know, I never did write a horror story about baseball'.
...But I have."
King co-wrote a chronicle of the Red Sox' 2004 season with Stewart O'Nan, called "Faithful." Unlike most Red Sox stories before that year, it ends happily.
I found the Steven King deal interesting. It sounds like his local radio stations evolved into almost a charitable thing, subsiding something he loved and thought was a nice community resource.
I know the financial numbers for smaller private radio station operations are non public…and I know there seem to be fewer stations not part of the conglomerate groups— but I wonder how many of these community oriented local stations actually are being retained/operated by local owners essentially as good neighbors, maybe not big money losers…but “hope to break even” community resources/labors of love?
I know the financial numbers for smaller private radio station operations are non public…and I know there seem to be fewer stations not part of the conglomerate groups— but I wonder how many of these community oriented local stations actually are being retained/operated by local owners essentially as good neighbors, maybe not big money losers…but “hope to break even” community resources/labors of love?
I get the feeling King's stations were run that way because he wanted them to run that way. WKIT 100.3 is a full-power Classic Rock station that is #1 in Bangor. WZON 620 is 5,000 watts, an automated classic hits station. Not to be critical but those stations should be profitable... if he WANTED them to be profitable.
OK, Bangor is a pretty small market. But it's the biggest city in Northern Maine. Other owners are profitable in Bangor with full power FMs and 5,000 watt AMs. Maybe the AAA station wouldn't be. That one is low-power and licensed to a town 25 miles away, So maybe give up that license.
But the other two stations are not basket cases. I think King at 77 just wants to walk away. He should at least see if someone might be interested, even a non-profit. He'd get a tax break for making them a donation.
So you think he wants them to be unprofitable? <puzzled>
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