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FIELD AND FRIENDS - ENTERCOM SACTO RESPONSE TEAM

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I have heard that Field and Paxton were called away from meetings in Seattle cluster and are in Sacremento. The market manager needs to stand up for this. PD's and morning talent have got stop being crucified when these inane ventures happen. I am so sick and tired of managers keeping their "phony baloney" jobs when there is a major problem at a radio station.
 
jimmythebassett said:
The market manager needs to stand up for this. PD's and morning talent have got stop being crucified when these inane ventures happen. I am so sick and tired of managers keeping their "phony baloney" jobs when there is a major problem at a radio station.
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WRONG!!! In this case it was very much the talents fault. They had various people calling saying that someone could die, and they brushed the critacism aside. The fact the station manager fell on his sword says that not even the suits were amune from this disaster.

Listen for yourself http://www.sacbee.com/static/newsroom/kdndslides/ They were laughing about the possability of someone dying, saying that the contestants signed releases. That is so bad. These guys got what they deserved.
 
Could they have been called from Seattle because entercom just traded some stations from Seattle to Bonneville???
 
Non-sense that it was the fault of the talent!

The license of KDND should be yanked by the FCC. I listened to the tape of the morning show...it was horrifying. These corporations are out of control...subsequently so is the talent. Where is the accountability? The talent? The buck stops at the desk of the manager.
 
The license of KDND should be yanked by the FCC. I listened to the tape of the morning show...it was horrifying. These corporations are out of control...subsequently so is the talent. Where is the accountability? The talent? The buck stops at the desk of the manager.
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Why is everybody so quick to blame the jocks. It is very unfortunate that this lady died but

1. Isn't the contestant responsible for their own actions.
2. NOBODY forced her to drink the water and hold her pee.
3. She even said she could drink more.

Get real!!!
 
Get real?

When a corporation has an FCC licensee, particularly in a market the size of Sacramento...it is worth millions. It is a license to print money. With that privilege comes a responsibility to the community. The licensee failed. The management team failed and ultimately the talent staff followed suit.

Forget the fact that the morning rave sounded like a bunch of rank amateurs. From the top down, these corporations pressure the local management team to make money. Most stations are not given the proper promotional budgets to get the job done. So they rely on attempting the outrageous...unfortunately this goal was accomplished.

The masses have proven time and time again, not capable of making decisions in there best interest, it is why we have speed limits on highways. Licensees should be community leaders. Unfortunately, these so called broadcasters who run these huge money grubbing corporations should first and foremost do things that protect their license...killing their listeners, no matter how stupid the listeners might be, is not one of them.
 
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Hey, Iv'e got a Suggestion..... How about the Media Conglomerate Corporate Office approving all Promotions....B-U-T, let the PD's at the Stations have sway over what songs may be played by the DJ's..... Sort of like.....Here's a list of songs that suck, and/or have profanity that we will not air..... Anything else you DJ's might want to play.... go for it!

That, for me, would be a better than Cororpate dictating playlists.

I'd just like to see the creative focus of local talent to be on Music, and not on EVERYTHING ELSE UNDER THE SUN..
 
With very few exceptions, I do not see corporations dictating local playlists. Corporations may instruct local stations to target a specific audience/format, but with very few exceptions, corporate playlists are a huge fallacy. And with that, it seems that the same people who complain that local managers don't have enough authority are the same people who want to blame a corporate office for poor local judgement. The corporation is responsible for hiring capable/competent people to run the local office, but Entercom's corporate office can not be to blame for this incident, though I'm sure it will result in them (their insurance company) writing a big check.

This event is tremendously tragic and extremely unfortunate and some of the local staff members showed very poor judgement and it backfired. Interestingly, I've spoken with many promotions directors about the event and most recall similar bouts with bad judgement which fortunately did not yield the same results. Its sad, its tragic, it could have happened to many radio stations around the country at various times. The End just had bad luck to go with their bad judgement.
 
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