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Greater Media/WROR: Julie Devereaux and Albert O laid off

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WMC2006

According to Radio and Records, Greater Media has laid off several people in Boston. Along with WBOS's Dana Marshall (mentioned in another thread), Julie Devereaux and Albert O have been let go from WROR. I just checked WROR's website and Julie is gone, along with her blog, while Albert O's pic and bio are still there (for now).

That means the 530am-10am morning show is the only weekday daypart with actual people unless you count the Employee Of the Day thing. Loren, Wally, Tom, Sue, and Hank are the only ones left. Weekenders Dominick, Stella, JC, and Kristen are still around.

This reminds me of some point back in the 80s when then-WVBF dumped everyone except Loren and Wally and it was the Music Of Your Life the other 20 hours of the day.
 
BoredModerator said:
Terrible. Are Dominic and Kevin Redding the same person?
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Not that I know of but Dominick Lewis (formerly of WBOS) and Dominick Indindoli (current WROR weekender and occasional traffic fillin for Hank on the morning show) are the same person. Click on his name (listed as Indindoli) on WROR's bio page and his email comes up as [email protected].
 
WMC2006 said:
That means the 530am-10am morning show is the only weekday daypart with actual people unless you count the Employee Of the Day thing. Loren, Wally, Tom, Sue, and Hank are the only ones left. Weekenders Dominick, Stella, JC, and Kristen are still around.
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It means the time has come for another frequency/format swap... :eek:
 
DJbobo said:
It means the time has come for another frequency/format swap... :eek:
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Hmmm. Well, we know Loren and Wally would still be there because they have survived 4 or 5 sets of call letters, more co-workers than they can probably remember, and several formats: country, classic, oldies. What else is left for them?

How about "Loren and Wally and the Biggest Movie Themes of the 20s and 30s and 40s all in one place"? :p ;D
 
WMC2006 said:
DJbobo said:
It means the time has come for another frequency/format swap... :eek:
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Hmmm. Well, we know Loren and Wally would still be there because they have survived 4 or 5 sets of call letters, more co-workers than they can probably remember, and several formats: country, classic, oldies. What else is left for them?

How about "Loren and Wally and the Biggest Movie Themes of the 20s and 30s and 40s all in one place"? :p ;D
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Something definitely seems up at WROR. Not extremely surprised that the station is dropping live overnights (considering that it did not even have live middays), but losing Julie will be a big blow. Haven't the lackluster ratings at the jockless WBOS said something? The fact that the station's PD is now being split between WROR and WBOS isn't extremely encouraging either.

As far as I've understood, Loren & Wally have always pulled monster numbers, but they go down the drain after 10 a.m. every day. Is there another GM station where L&W would fit? Obviously GM would never try a format like R/CHR or straight-forward CHR, but could an adult-leaning CHR on 105.7 work, taking Kiss' older morning demos through the rest of the day, and at a time when WBMX is rebuilding mornings?
 
encarta95 said:
but could an adult-leaning CHR on 105.7 work, taking Kiss' older morning demos through the rest of the day, and at a time when WBMX is rebuilding mornings?
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Why the hell not? As one Boston rock APD/MD asked me: "Why is WBOS going after my two share? Why not go after Kiss or Jamn's five share?"

To the gold-based and rock stations of Boston: Your stocks are in the toilet, and you've put all the interesting personalities on the street. Try playing a black/rhythmic record from the last 10 years. Wouldn't be any worse.
 
A shame.

Devereaux is, quite simply, one of the great female jocks in Boston radio history. I'd put her with Maxanne, Hilary Stevens, Leslie Palmenter, Louise Sanders, Tracy Roach, WACQ's Marsha Nicely and Robin Young's 'BZ overnight stint (yeah, they're all different but they all seemed to 'get' radio as a one-on-one medium). I'd also throw in Janet Jeghelian at 'BZ, who is too often underestimated for her groundbreaking work as a female A/C jock and on the same grounds maybe even Bambi Salzberg in all of her incarnations at 'RKO. The various WXKS-FM women I would withhold judgment on because a brain fart is keeping me from the remembering the one that was particularlly good. And if you are running a list of women air personalities who paved the way, don't ever forget Ellen Kimball at WEEI. (You are permitted, however, to dismiss out of hand the first woman Boston telephone talk-jock, something entitled Lulu who worked with Les Woodruff for a blessedly short period)

Can you believe how awful that female-voiced automatron WODS has been plagued with in middays for the past couple of decades sounds these days? People like her are why voice-tracking has become so popular -- if a live jock adds nothing, why not just have someone sit in a studio and record liners?
 
radioobservant said:
The various WXKS-FM women I would withhold judgment on because a brain fart is keeping me from the remembering the one that was particularlly good.
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If you're talking female jocks at Kiss over the years, you're talking about: Lisa Lipps, Karen Blake, Diana Steele, June Knight, ________ (<- a female jock they briefly had back in the late 90's, can't rememebr her name ATM, did overnights and weekends)...

And more recently: Deidre Dagata and Katie Hutch... did I forget anyone?
 
radiorama1 said:
Lisa Lipps
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Completely off-topic, but isn't Lisa Lipps the one who "disappeared" for a week or two maybe 10 years ago while working with Baltazar on JAMN (or maybe it was WZOU and pre-Baltazar)?? She didn't tell anyone anything, went north, nobody supposedly knew anything, big search, they found her, and she said she wasn't aware of the fuss and blah blah. Don't know why I thought of that. ::)
 
Why can't management just have them voice track their shifts? Or take a cut in pay? I know the economy is in the toilet.
But it would be better. Than letting people go. But I guess they figure it looks good to corporate. To say they made some cuts. Ugh.. total b/s!
 
I guess you can just about call WROR the B101 (Providence) of Boston now. The only live shift is mornings, the only difference is that B101 has voicetrackers/syndication the rest of the day. If the weekenders remain, that'll keep them very similar too, since B101 has a lot more live people on weekends than during the week.
 
encarta95 said:
WMC2006 said:
DJbobo said:
It means the time has come for another frequency/format swap... :eek:
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Hmmm. Well, we know Loren and Wally would still be there because they have survived 4 or 5 sets of call letters, more co-workers than they can probably remember, and several formats: country, classic, oldies. What else is left for them?

How about "Loren and Wally and the Biggest Movie Themes of the 20s and 30s and 40s all in one place"? :p ;D
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Something definitely seems up at WROR. Not extremely surprised that the station is dropping live overnights (considering that it did not even have live middays), but losing Julie will be a big blow. Haven't the lackluster ratings at the jockless WBOS said something? The fact that the station's PD is now being split between WROR and WBOS isn't extremely encouraging either.

As far as I've understood, Loren & Wally have always pulled monster numbers, but they go down the drain after 10 a.m. every day. Is there another GM station where L&W would fit? Obviously GM would never try a format like R/CHR or straight-forward CHR, but could an adult-leaning CHR on 105.7 work, taking Kiss' older morning demos through the rest of the day, and at a time when WBMX is rebuilding mornings?
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The ad volume is way,way down for everyone. All they're trying to do is ride out the storm with fewer bodies on the ship. They're in business of selling advertising, and not crafting radio as an art form.
 
Power Of Radio said:
Why can't management just have them voice track their shifts? Or take a cut in pay?
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Because when you take yourself seriously as a professional, you don't take less that what you're worth, because that devalues everybody in your profession.
 
It's truly a sad time in this industry. I just hope that both Albert and Julie land on their feet, although given the status of things it probably won't be that way. It's a shame that Julie was "downgraded," IMHO, to evenings from middays after Kim Collins was let go and that she didn't have any say in it. I never thought I'd see station automation (save for AM Drive) take place in major market radio. They wonder why the industry is dying: good talent is released resulting in generic boring crap on the air, which in turn drives listeners away, which in turn kills ratings, which in turn drives down revenues etc. etc. etc. I know, I know...I'm preaching to the choir. I sometimes wonder if maybe they're just better off turning off the transmitter at sundown like they did 40+ years ago and fire it up at 5am the next day? Makes you wonder sometimes.
 
Erik Davis said:
It's truly a sad time in this industry. I just hope that both Albert and Julie land on their feet, although given the status of things it probably won't be that way.
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FWIW, Albert is doing some fill-ins on WUMB. I know that won't pay his and his families living expenses, but at least he's still doing some air. He's been doing their Sunday morning "Acoustic Sunrise" show (8 AM-12 noon) for over a month now.

However, I wonder what happened to Bob Cannon, who created that show and hosted it for over twenty years. I wonder if he's taking a leave, stepped down, or if he isn't well, or if WUMB decided to replace him with Albert. Cannon is still on their website for the show, but they sometimes take a while to post changes.

Erik Davis said:
It's a shame that Julie was "downgraded," IMHO, to evenings from middays after Kim Collins was let go and that she didn't have any say in it.
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How do you know how she felt about the time slot? She may have enjoyed doing evenings just as much as mid-days, and was probably paid the same salary. I think the real shame is that she was just let go, not whether they had her on mid-days or evenings before.
 
Stella Mars has the night shift tonight so they aren't keeping the 7-midnight shift completely unmanned (or unwoman-ed) at least for tonight. Not sure what they did last night, if anything.

Albert O's pic is still on the WROR website jock page but I'm pretty sure he isn't on-air overnights.
 
WMC2006 said:
Stella Mars has the night shift tonight so they aren't keeping the 7-midnight shift completely unmanned (or unwoman-ed) at least for tonight.
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I also heard weekender J.C. Haze (formerly of classic rock 96.5 "The Mill" WMLL Manchester, NH) in the late afternoon this past week.
 
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