HAPPY TRAILS FOR MORGAN BOHANNON......

[powerdown]

Att..you have nailed it!!!

 

[johnqdoe]

Compared to other CC properties, GSO isn't a bad place to work. Well it wasn't before the corporate slashing began. Morgan's "country club" kinda pissed some folks off that weren't in it...but lots of that dead weight was weeded out a few years back. Salespeople get frustrated with new managers and restructuring every 12 or so months. "Are we selling the whole cluster?? OR are we back to selling only 1 station??? What is it this week?". The CC mandate to hire 50 salespeople or whatever it was a couple years ago was a turkey. On the programming side, Satterfield's a good guy...but he's stretched waaaay too thin. He's also much too conservative on the music. You know why WVBZ FINALLLLY has some balls??? Cause it was shoved down by corporate. Maybe it wasn't "change formats NOW!"..but they cut the budget so much, they HAD to get the CC content. The Buzzard should've been much more active all along. WTQR simply hasn't been the same since Paul died. On air or in the halls. I've never seen a staff so dedicated and loyal to a PD...and rightfully so. He treated you with respect and let you do your job. Basically, the cluster fell off when they started stretching folks between CLT and GSO. It used to be a great place to work. Now it's a ghost town in the halls and simply not a fun place to be.

Let me get this straight . . . you're saying the loss of some of their top sales talent and other support staff to other stations, groups, and ad agencies was "weeding out dead weight"??!!! Many of those people are now thriving at other stations and area ad agencies and are part of the reason for CC's downfall. Sounds like you might have been part of the "country club" that lead to the cultural demise of some of those great stations. The "dead weight" you're referring to was part of what made those stations great in the first place! Now that the "dead weight" is gone, you have a "ghost town in the halls and simply not a fun place to be"? Certainly, the death of Paul was horrific and a big blow to WTQR, but the gradual decline of morale had more to do with poor management than the loss of a single employee. Also, most of the "dead weight" you mention being weeded out left of their own accord. Not exactly "weeded out"! I might also add that many of the people who left found it gut-wrenching to leave stations that they were part of building in the first place, but could no longer stand to watch being systematically ruined. When many of those people left, they took the long-term relationships they had built with advertisers with them not to mention the knowledge and history that left the building.

The "dead weight" I referred to was just that. The promotions and sales folks that sat on the sidelines an took credit while other people did the work. Sales folks or promotions mgrs that didn't bother with anything not named WTQR or WMAG...and even THEN they slacked on the duck regatta in Clemmons and the Easter Egg hunt at the Farmer's Market. Be it a Sat afternoon remote event, paid promotion, or a multi station shindig. There were talented sales folk and others that got out when the gettin was good. Was it an easy choice?? Hell no. THAT was the gist of my post. It WAS a great place to work. There were and still are some GREAT people in that building. The weatherman was a great earner. Teh Avon Lady came back.... It isn't a great place to work NOW. AS for the "weeded out" portion of my post...there were several positions cut 2 or 3 yrs ago, before the CC mandates that belonged to people IN the "country club" that WERE dead weaight. I wasn't one of them.

 

[johnqdoe]

ClearChannel management took a great cluster and a great place to work and ruined it. Anyone disagree????

 

[dittohead1]

ClearChannel management took a great cluster and a great place to work and ruined it. Anyone disagree????

AND THEY DID THE SAME THING ANY NUMBER OF TIMES IN MARKETS ACROSS AMERICA

 

[MaskMan]

OK JohnQDoe, I let you off the hook for the dead weight comment. I know the promotions employee you refer to and think her leaving the building was a definite positive and helped put a dent in the country club. And, yes, there are still some good people left there. I feel for them and know they're doing the best they can in a tough situation.