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Drucifer said:
While a fascinating display of bitterness and pettiness, I'm sure we can find a folks that would say equally unkind things about Wheat, Green, Morgan and Williams.
I will say this. If anything, this thread has made most of the people on this thread sound like whiners. Business is business. Decisions have to be made. Sometimes they are the right decisions and sometimes managers make mistakes. People get fired all the time. But, seriously, no one is owed anything. Not owed a job. Not owed a voice. If anyone thinks they are being mistreated by a manager or not "listened to" they have a choice - do something else, get another job or simply suck it up and do the job they are being asked to do. Not everyone gets a vote as to the direction of an organization. In any company, there has to be a vision - not vision(s).
Why can't the answer for all the change at Entercom, simply be that change was needed? A change was made with Market Manager. The new manager was hired. As the manager, they determined that some people had to go. Why is that such a stretch? It happens everyday. MAYBE, the people that were fired, deserved to be fired.
Why can't the answer for all the change at Entercom, simply be that change was needed? A change was made with Market Manager. The new manager was hired. As the manager, they determined that some people had to go. Why is that such a stretch? It happens everyday. MAYBE, the people that were fired, deserved to be fired.
radiopro said:
Agreed. Sometimes people are fired because they are not good workers or because things need to be freshened up or the station(s) are taking a new direction. Totally understandable. However, firing people to fire them, demoting, getting rid of people or making new positions for friends isn't the same thing. Some of the people that have been gotten rid of in this reign are forgivable. It was just their time.
What about people who were good workers, proved themselves repeatedly, were needed yet were pushed into making a choice between staying with a good company that picked bad management that lacked leadership skills or leaving to go to another company? All of them (at least that I know of) have chosen the second choice and taken away a lot of talent from the cluster. The only comfort I can see Entercom taking in that is that one day when Jenny and her bff leave (or are gotten rid of) they will more than likely draw those top people back in the fold and regain success.
mouseman said:
Erika?
So now the only manager in sales is JR? Scary thought. It can only go downhill from here.
Any news or confirmations on the DSM leaving?
cheers2you said:
Call 218-2264 Jenny.
After reading all the post on Entercom and several other Subjects over the past several weeks, I find it interesting that the people belittleing the management or what a station SHOULD be programing has no idea what a manager has to deal with day to day. Most of the posts are from radio wanna be's or jocks who have no insights as to what it takes to own and operate a station. UNTIL YOU SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR AND TRY TO MAKE A GO OF ANY STATION IN THESE SAD ENCONOMIC TIMES KEEP YOUR THOUGHTS TO YOURSELF!
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Wow...after reading the past TWELVE pages, you'd think that corporate might get a clue as to what's going on at Entercom Indianapolis. Jenny should never have been hired. She's made a lot of lives miserable and not for the right reasons. There's a "right" way of doing things and making changes, and there's a "wrong" way. She consistently chose the "wrong" way.
bayleigh said:
Hmmm...not sure what numbers you are looking at, but from what I can see, the ratings are DOWN. Dec10 to Jan11, down .1 W25-54, down .1 A25-54. Not sure what you would consider to be "working" with those numbers.
An AQH in the 4+ range, and cume numbers 300,000+ and folks here are busting on ZPL? When did we become so jaded? Granted PPM measurements have inflated total radio listenership [capturing everyone from P1 to P6!] but that's a good thing and ZPL's current audience levels are good in my book.
Entercom paid too much for these properties [$76m] - the stations [and management] have always lived under that shadow. Sorry to disagree with all the programming types on the board here, but you cannot program your way to successful advertising sales and cash flow. These are audience levels that can be successfully sold; the audience levels cannot be blamed for failure to make the financials work. That rests squarely on sales and management [including corp management].
Oh, and by the way, to the recent post who called everyone out on this board as "wanna-be's" who should sit in THE CHAIR before they start expressing their opinions here, I do this for a living - just so you know before you randomly go off on me as a "wanna-be."
Entercom paid too much for these properties [$76m] - the stations [and management] have always lived under that shadow. Sorry to disagree with all the programming types on the board here, but you cannot program your way to successful advertising sales and cash flow. These are audience levels that can be successfully sold; the audience levels cannot be blamed for failure to make the financials work. That rests squarely on sales and management [including corp management].
Oh, and by the way, to the recent post who called everyone out on this board as "wanna-be's" who should sit in THE CHAIR before they start expressing their opinions here, I do this for a living - just so you know before you randomly go off on me as a "wanna-be."
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