Quinn out after 36 years. More at the Connecticut Post here:http://www.connpost.com/ci_11647114
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Firings at WICC
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This isn't going to help either station gain revenue. It's just another corporate downsizing. Before you know it every AM in CT will be on the BIRD! DA BIRD IS DA WORD! ALMOST EVERY LISTENER HAS HEARD ABOUT THE BIRD. BUT NOT THE WORD.......LAYOFF......... LMFBO ;D
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I wouldn't call it ""corporate"" cutbacks.....How about a TERRIBLE economy? Do you think all these companies WANT to fire these people? Especially at their cash cow stations? Get real....
ALL industries are hurting just as badly..Things are being cutback from your favorite station to your local Home Depot....
ALL industries are hurting just as badly..Things are being cutback from your favorite station to your local Home Depot....
Dude, I worked in that back stabbing, slimeball, weasel business for many years. Everyone gets what's coming to them.radio220 said:I wouldn't call it ""corporate"" cutbacks.....How about a TERRIBLE economy? Do you think all these companies WANT to fire these people? Especially at their cash cow stations? Get real....
ALL industries are hurting just as badly..Things are being cutback from your favorite station to your local Home Depot....
For some, it just takes a little longer. ;D But it's well worth the wait ;D
PM Driver Brian Smith (formerly of the Smith & Barber Morning Show on 'PLR) & MaryLee, (also formerly from the Smith & Barber Morning Show) co-hostess & traffic reporter from Cumulus' WEBE108.
Many of them are. Like I said before what goes around comes around. And you might have wait a little longer for justice but it eventually gets served to those who deserve it.ThExMaNCT said:Video, do you know Tim Quinn personally? Or any of the other personalities that were let go?? Dont assume because you used to work around egotistical jocks that every talent is like that.
A$$!
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I've worked with both Tim Quinn and Brian Smith. To say they got what they deserved is just plain ignorant and shows that whoever said it doesn't know the individuals, or have the slightest clue as to what the hell they're talking about! Tim and Brian are two of the nicest, most ethical people I've had the pleasure to know in broadcasting or anywhere else for that matter. Any radio station would be lucky to have them.
Cumulus doesn't understand that they need a product to sell...they're too busy stopping the hemorrhaging to worry about product, while they could and should be doing both. They will get what they deserve!
Cumulus doesn't understand that they need a product to sell...they're too busy stopping the hemorrhaging to worry about product, while they could and should be doing both. They will get what they deserve!
I will not disclose the identities of the back-stabbing low lifes that I have worked with in CT radio. But suffice it say many had very high profile air shifts. They were so extremely insecure, they sank to a level of troublemaking that no one would ever believe. Using the public airwaves to denigrate a handful of people just to boost their little ego. Thankfully, these gutless losers got what they deserved. Blacklisted and out of the business. There should be no tolerance for using the public airwaves for your own get even games.branfordbob said:I've worked with both Tim Quinn and Brian Smith. To say they got what they deserved is just plain ignorant and shows that whoever said it doesn't know the individuals, or have the slightest clue as to what the hell they're talking about! Tim and Brian are two of the nicest, most ethical people I've had the pleasure to know in broadcasting or anywhere else for that matter. Any radio station would be lucky to have them.
Cumulus doesn't understand that they need a product to sell...they're too busy stopping the hemorrhaging to worry about product, while they could and should be doing both. They will get what they deserve!
As for Cumulus, their headaches have just begun. Wait until the next round of layoffs
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radio monkey
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Branford Bob, thank you.
Video killed: I am really sorry that your experience in the radio industry has been so awful. I've been working in this industry for 25 years and have met, worked with and worked for some of the best people I've ever met in my life. Every business has its lowlifes and creeps and back stabbers. It is really sad for you that you seem to have worked with nothing but.
Video killed: I am really sorry that your experience in the radio industry has been so awful. I've been working in this industry for 25 years and have met, worked with and worked for some of the best people I've ever met in my life. Every business has its lowlifes and creeps and back stabbers. It is really sad for you that you seem to have worked with nothing but.
You obviously have not worked at the bigger stations in this state. Like I said not going to name drop but there are a select few who need an ethics course. It appears to be more prevalent with morning show hosts who have huge egos.radio monkey said:Branford Bob, thank you.
Video killed: I am really sorry that your experience in the radio industry has been so awful. I've been working in this industry for 25 years and have met, worked with and worked for some of the best people I've ever met in my life. Every business has its lowlifes and creeps and back stabbers. It is really sad for you that you seem to have worked with nothing but.
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<<You obviously have not worked at the bigger stations in this state>>
wrong again!!!!
my advice would be that you get rid of that ENORMOUS chip on your poor shoulder and move on. Again, I am sorry your time in the radio industry was so miserable.
wrong again!!!!
my advice would be that you get rid of that ENORMOUS chip on your poor shoulder and move on. Again, I am sorry your time in the radio industry was so miserable.
i heard WEBE afternoon guy Robbie Bridges doing local news at 5 on WICC this afternoon. I believe this is a first - a jock doing news on WICC.
Bill1820 said:i heard WEBE afternoon guy Robbie Bridges doing local news at 5 on WICC this afternoon. I believe this is a first - a jock doing news on WICC.
Of course, this brings up yet another first: Does he pre-record the news on the AM or does he voicetrack on the FM to allow himself time to do the news? What will happen with "breaking news", too?
I heard a promo this morning about "team coverage" - what team do that have left? Unless Mike Bellamy clones himself I don't see what team they have left. They are one step closer to Cheap Channel, who has their "local" Connecticut news come out of Syracuse.
BTW: The rumour mill has it that all part-timers will have their pay cut to sub $10/hr levels. How many of them do you expect to stick around at that rate?
All this is caused by the collapse of advertising. And it's affecting all media, not just radio. Case in point: I've never seen so many roadside billboards advertising billboard availabilities as I have in recent months.
Eventually, the economy is going to turn around. My question is, does radio start hiring again when advertisers return or does it keep running "lean and mean"? Come to think about it, if the recession ends in, say three years, and most sectors of retail have been reduced to near-monopolies -- as Best Buy will be once Circuit City disappears; who's to say the Staples/Office Depot and Lowes/Home Depot wars won't end the same way? -- will the survivors even bother to advertise? After all, Wal-Mart barely does, and really doesn't need to, since, in many markets, it's the only place to go for much of what it sells if the customer wants the best price. So why would Best Buy continue to put circulars in every Sunday paper every week if its only competitor in the sector has been eliminated?
Scary thought: Maybe the business model for businesses that rely on advertising for cash flow -- like the media -- is broken worse than the economy as a whole.
Eventually, the economy is going to turn around. My question is, does radio start hiring again when advertisers return or does it keep running "lean and mean"? Come to think about it, if the recession ends in, say three years, and most sectors of retail have been reduced to near-monopolies -- as Best Buy will be once Circuit City disappears; who's to say the Staples/Office Depot and Lowes/Home Depot wars won't end the same way? -- will the survivors even bother to advertise? After all, Wal-Mart barely does, and really doesn't need to, since, in many markets, it's the only place to go for much of what it sells if the customer wants the best price. So why would Best Buy continue to put circulars in every Sunday paper every week if its only competitor in the sector has been eliminated?
Scary thought: Maybe the business model for businesses that rely on advertising for cash flow -- like the media -- is broken worse than the economy as a whole.
Especially people like Paul Pacelli who has been anchoring news in CT for many, many years. Hansen expects him to stick around for welfare wages just because it's radio? He should shelve his ego and get a real job.Bill DeFelice said:Bill1820 said:i heard WEBE afternoon guy Robbie Bridges doing local news at 5 on WICC this afternoon. I believe this is a first - a jock doing news on WICC.
Of course, this brings up yet another first: Does he pre-record the news on the AM or does he voicetrack on the FM to allow himself time to do the news? What will happen with "breaking news", too?
I heard a promo this morning about "team coverage" - what team do that have left? Unless Mike Bellamy clones himself I don't see what team they have left. They are one step closer to Cheap Channel, who has their "local" Connecticut news come out of Syracuse.
BTW: The rumour mill has it that all part-timers will have their pay cut to sub $10/hr levels. How many of them do you expect to stick around at that rate?
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radio monkey
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He should shelve his ego and get a real job
again with that...a real job like whatever YOU are doing now...but clearly you'd rather be doing radio for a living ...hey but it's MUCH easier to just continue to insult the people who work in radio.
again with that...a real job like whatever YOU are doing now...but clearly you'd rather be doing radio for a living ...hey but it's MUCH easier to just continue to insult the people who work in radio.
I guess I am a little tired of people paying professionals no $$ just cause it is radio. It is a profession. It is an honest and good profession. Pacelli doesn't have to worry about his ego. He has to worry about making a living in the profession he loves.
When all of these radio consolidators go bankrupt and have to sell their stations maybe some of us will buy them and bring back real radio.
When all of these radio consolidators go bankrupt and have to sell their stations maybe some of us will buy them and bring back real radio.
I have a real job because radio was about to put me on skid row. Dude, I have seen it all. Been there done that.radio monkey said:He should shelve his ego and get a real job
again with that...a real job like whatever YOU are doing now...but clearly you'd rather be doing radio for a living ...hey but it's MUCH easier to just continue to insult the people who work in radio.
When I worked in the business stations were locally owned and the local owners genuinely cared about the staff.
Suffice to say I worked at a very popular CT AM/FM for ten years. Those stations were bought and sold 4 times in
that time period. And back then you had management that would stand up for quality air talent.
I actually thought quality programing mattered. It's all about the bottom line. Most stations are either vt'd or satellite after 7p. Curious as to what is going to happen next? The local talent is no more. ELI doesn't have any local programming M-F. It used to be the New Haven news leader. SAD!
Perhaps corporate will eventually learn.
videokilledtheradiostar said:I have a real job because radio was about to put me on skid row. Dude, I have seen it all. Been there done that.When I worked in the business stations were locally owned and the local owners genuinely cared about the staff. Suffice to say I worked at a very popular CT AM/FM for ten years. Those stations were bought and sold 4 times in that time period. And back then you had management that would stand up for quality air talent. I actually thought quality programing mattered. It's all about the bottom line. Most stations are either vt'd or satellite after 7p. Curious as to what is going to happen next? The local talent is no more. ELI doesn't have any local programming M-F. It used to be the New Haven news leader. SAD! Perhaps corporate will eventually learn.
Anyone know how that Quinnipiac station is? I'm not close enough to tune in, but I heard they do a good job at local news around New Haven. Are they the only one left doing local news in greater New Haven?
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