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Duncan Stewart AND Al Voecks get the ax!

that sucks, Al is both a great newsman and a great addition to the show. He has been a part of broadcasting in Nashville since the 60's.
Corperate radio is killing itsself.
 
if i were the walrus..i'd be looking over my shoulder for a harpoon...gonna be interesting to see how a two man show goes..it's been such a three ring circus for years..gonna be a big adjustment for those inhouse (pun intended)..as well as the listener..
 
I read where Keith Kauffman said he may hire another personality to focus less on hard news and sports and more on lifestyle news. Does any one think this will happen, and if so, will it be soon?
 
I'm sure that this person will make considerably less than the former two. What type of salary do you think this new position will pay compared to what Stewart and Voecks were being paid? Whatever that was.
 
"Corporate radio is killing its self".

Yea. Agree totally. And they wonder why more and more people are turning to satellite radio and ipods. Entertainment is being taken out of the mix and in it's place nothing but automated canned jukeboxes.
Unless something changes, radios best days are finished. One of the reasons I'm out after 25 years.
 
In the same Tennessean article, the current WSIX GM ( House's 11th? 12th?) displays the kind of great management skills that got them to this point - by contradicting House in print and saying it's not about budget, it's about "doing what's best for the listener." Really. The real problem is that no one there at the station (or at Cheap Channel) remembers what WSIX's ratings and revenues were like without Gerry. For all their lip service and lies about their commitment to "local" radio, the fact is Clear Channel is way more interested in syndicating really mediocre talent (insert the names of your choice here) cheaply than about supporting a truly local program that in most years has accounted for almost half of WSIX's revenues. Hope they'll enjoy what's going to happen to them as a result of their stupidity. It's coming.

And, by the way, Duncan Stewart was a big improvement over that knucklehead he replaced in 1983. ;)
 
davenichols said:
The real problem is that no one there at the station (or at Cheap Channel) remembers what WSIX's ratings and revenues were like without Gerry.
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I remember what they were like. The station was 8th 12+, posting a 5.5 share....WITHOUT Gerry House. By the way, what is their current share? I thought so. Interesting sidebar: back in the days between Gerry House and Gerry House, the midday guy scored better numbers than the morning show did. It wasn't surprising they brought him back.

This station has been heading back down the tubes ever since a steady procession of key staff members were shown the door. Almost all of the staff (except the morning show) has been turned over. It started at the top. G.M. David "Hollywood" Manning was re-assigned, the P.D. and the Promotions Director were canned and even House made a change in his show when we elbowed out sidekick Paul Randall. Now, corporate proving is how incredibly stupid they are by blowing out Voecks & Duncan. Don't kid yourself about Al Voecks and "hard news", though. The news effort was never more than cosmetic. Voecks just made it sound better.

...and I'm not at all sure I buy the line from Gerry that he "quit, then re-negotiated and come back". He's never shown that kid of loyalty to anyone...except Gerry House.

I guess he needs the money.
 
[size=10pt]Sad to see anyone lose their job...BUT, come on...AL VOECKS is 71 & way past RETIREMENT time...
Duncan Stewart......well....I'll just leave that one BLANK....________________________... ;D

Its a FACT in CORPORATE AMERICA...its ALL ABT the BOTTOM LINE![/size]
 
that show has been old and tiring of late and not performing as well....time to move on and do something else..old radio people never die, they just become disgruntled serial killers
 
radio30 said:
"Corporate radio is killing its self".

Yea. Agree totally. And they wonder why more and more people are turning to satellite radio and ipods. Entertainment is being taken out of the mix and in it's place nothing but automated canned jukeboxes.
Unless something changes, radios best days are finished. One of the reasons I'm out after 25 years.
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That's funny...have you listened to satellite radio? It's been canned jukebox since the merger. And an ipod by definition is a canned jukebox. If that's what the people want, then radio should continue to go that way.
 
The Show and the appeal is Gerry. Mike is a great compliment in that he knows how to play off Gerry better than anybody. Voecks is a fine fellow but basic and generic. He doesn't have a lot of charisma, is not a creative or interesting writer and as radio continues to seek and serve a younger and hip audience he is interested in being neither. Not that he's stubborn. Just comfortable. When a guy comes here as TV anchor man as he did in the 60s, and remains on radio all this time, he becomes and lives a certain image.
It was time for him to go years ago. They could use more than one guy on the current playing field of life and this helps House tweek the content. I'm sure the last thing he wants is to resemble WSM AM.
 
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