Gee, Bob, really? Do you drink the Kool-Aid or just pass it out?

[Ssummers]

http://news.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n23347

Bob Pittman:
"...how can we make the products better? That was really the driving force. The horrible thing is that it means that some people lose their jobs...By the way, at the same time, we're adding jobs in National Programming Platforms, strategic partnerships and digital."

I realize that radio is a business and I understand the reality of the industry in this day and age, but it's just too damned bad that you won't be hiring any of the employees whose lives have been disrupted by your new company's recent terminations. In the future, if you and your "suit" brethren can't deal straight with the masses while attempting to explain away mismanagement and lack of fiscal foresight(we all said CC was overleveraged years ago...but what do we know?) on the part of ownership and the upper echelons of corporate management, just STFU. Don't bullsh*t bullsh*tters.

I LOVE the last line of the article:
"Pittman maintains this was a strategic move to improve the quality of the product in smaller markets and that "It was not about cost-savings."'

Funny how CC is firing all those small and medium market employees while, in the same breath, hiring YOU and "...adding National Programming Platforms, strategic partnerships and digital."

Sure Bob, sure. Just kick your heels together three times and say "There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home".

...your respect level is hemorrhaging.

I'm gonna jet for now...I gotta buy a big boat I can't afford so I can fire all of the sailors who help sail it, then I can hire a bunch of captains to sit up on the bridge pointing fingers and having a c*rcle jerk while everyone just floats aimlessly around in the ocean.

 

[freqdev]

good post ss. the people making the decisions have some smarts and are able to say the right things to the people who want to hear them. there are those to don't aspire to be at that level because life is more important than being quoted in the latest journal or trade magazine. these guys are already multi millionaires. what do they care? they are speaking to wall street and potential buyers for when they split it up. it is all about business and not about "serving the public's best interest" which is written all over what radio should be. i have friends who drink gallon jugs of the kool-aid, but they need jobs too. i guess we all smile and tell the hundreds of people who came to your remote that the winner of the station t-shirt will be announced monday.

 

[Lhsh]

And this is the price we are paying for deregulation.

 

[Al Timiter]

And this is the price we are paying for deregulation.

Amen. That's when the BS Express really went snow-balling.

 

[Thrills!]

It just keeps on getting worse Scott. And they just keep piling on the BS hoping we'll believe it and not make waves.

 

[Ssummers]

...they are speaking to wall street and potential buyers for when they split it up.

Yeah, it's fairly obvious that's exactly what he was doing.
I guess plunking down his investment for and being involved with Double O was the required "buy-in" for admittance to the CC Corporate Fatcat Club.

...it is all about business and not about "serving the public's best interest" which is written all over what radio should be.

Exactly. I know it's wishful thinking, but there's GOT to be a point (between "business" interests and "the public's best interest") past which is a gray ethical area.

It just keeps on getting worse Scott. And they just keep piling on the BS hoping we'll believe it and not make waves.

Sorry as hell to hear that, Thrills. Keep fighting the good fight, but keep your head low and hang on to your ass with both hands.

 

[DudeFan]

I forsee when Clear Channel is split into two companies: the major markets in one and the small and medium markets in the other. Or, alternatively, mostly status quo majors and the small and medium markets as broadcast outlets for national "stations."

 

[Ssummers]

I forsee when Clear Channel is split into two companies: the major markets in one and the small and medium markets in the other. Or, alternatively, mostly status quo majors and the small and medium markets as broadcast outlets for national "stations."

All in the interest of improving the smaller market product, I presume. ****** nozzles.

Your scenario isn't far fetched at all, Steve...obscenely unfortunate, but not far fetched.

 

[Thrills!]

When does it get fun again?

 

[Ssummers]

When does it get fun again?

When radio is again run by radio people and not greedy money grubbing "suits". Don't hold your breath.

 

[Al Timiter]

Occupy the Airwaves!

 

[Ssummers]

Occupy the Airwaves!

A splendid idea, my friend.

 

[Scooter Lesley]

Well,...I first, would like to say hats-off to one of our Think Tank members, Ssummers...for bringing this thread to light.
Since the recent CC ankling of three of my friends, Rick Larson, Joe Trusty, and "John Boy' Crenshaw, I've done real good in containing myself, but since we now have the name of the messenger; "Bob"....I'll just..... Marv, hand me my black hat, and let me get up on my soapbox...briefly(yeah right!). Do they really believe that any of us are gonna fall for this Horseshit?
They are all in money trouble...too many CEO's, DEO's, EEO's, Oreo's, IOU's,...EI, EI, O's. Here is where the FCC should grow a set, and weigh-in.
Run the stations, with a full staff(jobs)...or sell them to a buyers that can. You can not keep your license, if you don't start dancing...NOW!
There are "A-Plenty" of us still around! I can name ten, make a few calls, and have a Pro staff ready by tomorrow at 2pm. For me, a BC powder, a shot of scotch, a pot of Folgers, blow the dust off my headphones, and I'll plow your field...like a John Deere...in high gear!
Bob,...Bob,...come see us...let's you & me have lunch!