Lisawood said:
Someone said I'm moving because I burned bridges? Yea, that's a good one. I just won "Best Radio Personality" in the Seattle Times People's Picks. Surely this community must really hate me. I have a GREAT career here, a wonderful music programming day job in addition to my radio work and the move has nothing to do with work.
You burned your bridges within the Seattle radio community, with management. You have a reputation for not doing your job and being vocal when you suffer the reprocussions from that. You had no problem talking to anyone about that issue. Remember the newspaper articles trumpeting your "whoa is me" story at KISW? You even changed your blog address, presumably to appeal to mainstream media, because it's doubtful that "f*kkinwood" is something that would make the pages of The Times or The PI, would it?
Speaking of newspapers, congratulations on that Seattle Times poll. However, like it or not, it's the polling that Arbitron does is what counts.
By the way, what's the correlation between your burning bridges and that Times poll? Are you insinuating that people at Entercom voted you in?
Lisawood said:
Why don't you look at some of the comments on my myspace to see how many people here truly appreciate what I have done here?
Of course you're going to get people that stroke you on your myspace page. People did frown upon you on your old blogspot page, but you did the favor in return.
Lisawood said:
It's absolutely not your business, but I don't want false information out there, so here you go. We are moving because we love Portland and nothing more. I've been in Seattle 20 years, my guy his whole life. It's simply time for a change. He is a Chef and I live and breathe music/radio. Both jobs can be done anywhere and we plan to experience much more than one place in this gigantic world.
Good for you on your personal decision. Seriously.
But if someone types something incorrect about you here, what's the big deal? It comes over as if you have some kind of ego to feed by correcting "false information out there." Equifax and the other credit agenices are places to correct "false information out there," not some radio discussion board. Again, it makes you come over as if your ego made you post here.
I only wish I had the archives to your old blog to point out the "false information" YOU posted.
Lisawood said:
Sure, I've had some bad experiences with a few radio stations. Who hasn't? In any industry, everyone's had a [EDIT] job or a bad experience with a crappy boss. I just chose to speak out about it.
Not all radio is bad, I've never said that and once again you jump to conclusions, making everything this dramatic, over-exaggerated ball of gossip. I absolutely love radio and MOST of my experiences have been great ones, especially with KEXP and KFNK. Both have been so incredibly supportive and empowering to what great radio and community connections can be.
You are absolutely correct in saying that people have bad experiences at radio stations. You mastered the milking of the terms of your dismissal to maximize your "whoa is me" and the "the man is holding me down" positions you took. All of this was derived from the fact that you couldn't execute the simple job you were asked to do. Not doing your job will get you fired in ANY profession. You chose to take it personally and let everyone know about it.
On the copied and pasted text from your blog over here were your words that made you come over as being perplexed as to why you were dismissed at KISW. Then it was how commercial radio and the big bad corporations were doing evil. All the while you were gleefully collecting paychecks from Metro Traffic (owned by Infinity), and later from Clear Channel. Not to mention the greed and internal money issues that are rampant at the savior KEXP.
Good luck in Portland.
