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Update Entercom promotes Tim Holly to Market Manager.
Update Entercom promotes Tim Holly to Market Manager.
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Entercom Buffalo Promotes Tim Holly To SVP/Market Manager
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Horrible move by Entercom bosses. They are clueless. Knows nothing about programming...his Kiss morning man, Nicholas, said he has worked with him for 15 years and to this day Holly is unsure if he is Nick or Wease (the other morning guy). He is why their sales have dropped year after year. Most good sales people that have left have left, exited because of him. Expect more people to leave as he "leads" this cluster further into the toilet!
His job description says nothing about any Programming duties. He's a sales guy. He'll let Corporate worry about the content. He just has to sell it and manage the budget.
Entercom certainly saves money by promoting him and not having to add another big salary. The company must know the reality of the Buffalo market and the industry by now...
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Sales is usually "Dog Eat Dog - Rat Eat Rat". Money is the motivating factor--whether it's selling Radio spots, autos or vacuum cleaners. I don't know that Radio sales people are particularly passionate about the programming. I've heard some refer to air talent as "Meat behind a microphone"--Disposable as cattle.
There's always been a gulf between Programming and Sales. WKRP in Cincinnati referred to it as "The Suits vs The Dungarees" in a classic episode...
There's always been a gulf between Programming and Sales. WKRP in Cincinnati referred to it as "The Suits vs The Dungarees" in a classic episode...
If you're an employee, dependent on a company for your paycheck and health benefits, who do you put your faith in?
The trend in the whole industry is to have programming supervised by national format specialists; engineering reporting to corporate, accounting and traffic done in a centralized facility and even production done in multi-station centers.
So the GM is mostly a sales supervisor.
If you do the numbers, 2000 billing is about 30% of the inflation adjusted 2006 per-recession numbers, the math explains the changes in the industry.
I know several PDs who've made the transition to GM, and the hardest part of the transition is all of the money parts of the job. Because once you're GM, your salary & bonus are based on revenue. It's the boring part of what can be seen as a glamorous job. Some of them either didn't make it as GM or quit to go back to programming. It's why most come from sales, where they're already dealing with that kind of life, and they have the contacts to make a phone call if they need to meet payroll that week.
Never liked that show. Not a bit. I found it even more depressing than the actual business. I did watch it though, but only for Loni Anderson's boobs.
I have found that PD's who become GM can learn the money game, but sales guys (or gals) who become GM often don't have much in the way of programming intuition.
Cue Buddy Shula in three, two, one.
Nope. Bailey Quarters. Any. Day.
And about the GM thing. A successful Buffalo sales rep was ahead of his time years ago when he said, "Jocks don't understand that the songs are just something to fill time between the commercials."
And we should remember that the show had a very successful GM from a major market, Gerry Blum of WQXI in Atlanta, who was a content consultant.
The famous "turkey drop" actually happened at a station in Houston where a dear friend of mine was PD at the time. South Texas natives thought that all turkeys could fly... not realizing that farm-raised ones could not. And the real story was better than the TV version, including a turkey going through the roof of a pickup truck and ending up hanging on the gun rack. File under "only in Texas".
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