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Has CC management lost their minds?

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CheeseNBacon

I've heard this story flopping around the market for a few days.
Is it true that a well-known Clear Channel manager lost his marbles and in a fit of rage physically assulted an employee?
If so, that's just insane. How can that happen in a modern workplace? A manager physically assults an employee? :eek:
I just cannot imagine how that can happen. What the hell is going on in that place? Is it really that bad that an employee gets assulted?
 
Has CC management lost their minds?
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Disregarding the rest of the post, because the title says it all - like this is a question that really needs to answered?

Hint: The answer is 'Yes'. They lost it a loooooooooooong time ago along with the rest of corporate radio.
 
This is just so sad. Unfortunately, we're in an environment now where someone is going to get really hurt from a gun or another weapon.

You can't continue to badger employees without some sort of response. It's coming. And unfortunate.
 
Seltzer said:
This is just so sad. Unfortunately, we're in an environment now where someone is going to get really hurt from a gun or another weapon.

You can't continue to badger employees without some sort of response. It's coming. And unfortunate.
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In the years I used to work in the biz fulltime the badgering,control freak politics,being led-on,being built-up only to be let down(and I can go on forever) has gone on for years if not decades...even in the small markets where I worked that mentality was (and still is) there by all of the big fish in the small pond wishing they were working for the Big 1.

Only difference is that after the 1990s communications act,the arrogance,greed,and dedicated employees treated like dog dew has gotten out of contol....Even more so when WIMT lets Gordy Price (and others) go and never got any kind of help when he got deathly sick,passed away a month ago and WIMT's cross-town competitor WCIT-AM does a much more appropriate tribute page to him than his former employer only breifly mentioning him on the T-102 website with a link to the Lima News obit is (to put it lightly) abhorrent!

BTW..that loving tribute to Gordy that was aired on all Lima stations on August 28th was produced by Maverick Media Lima...not by the Clear Circlejerks.

Clear Channel makes me worse than sick!

HEIL RUSH!!!!!(ditto)

YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
 
So does this have anything to do with the fact that Eric Deters was on WLW on Friday for the Marconi Award winning disk jockey Willie Cunningham??

Has HELEN MAYS been notified??

Deters mentioned he would be on for Willie again the first week of October.
 
CheeseNBacon said:
I've heard this story flopping around the market for a few days.
Is it true that a well-known Clear Channel manager lost his marbles and in a fit of rage physically assulted an employee?
If so, that's just insane. How can that happen in a modern workplace? A manager physically assults an employee? :eek:
I just cannot imagine how that can happen. What the hell is going on in that place? Is it really that bad that an employee gets assulted?
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You have to understand that radio is run by dangerously powermad people. These people are under the delusion that it's always someone else's fault when ratings/revenue sinks and it's not their sh--ty management that is to blame. Radio is an industry that cannot budget cut it's way back into huge profits and rating. It's cannibalizing itself. But don't tell that to....OWW!....HEY!....WHOA!....LET GO!.....
 
Limp73 said:
Seltzer said:
This is just so sad. Unfortunately, we're in an environment now where someone is going to get really hurt from a gun or another weapon.

You can't continue to badger employees without some sort of response. It's coming. And unfortunate.
Click to expand...

In the years I used to work in the biz fulltime the badgering,control freak politics,being led-on,being built-up only to be let down(and I can go on forever) has gone on for years if not decades...even in the small markets where I worked that mentality was (and still is) there by all of the big fish in the small pond wishing they were working for the Big 1.

Only difference is that after the 1990s communications act,the arrogance,greed,and dedicated employees treated like dog dew has gotten out of contol....Even more so when WIMT lets Gordy Price (and others) go and never got any kind of help when he got deathly sick,passed away a month ago and WIMT's cross-town competitor WCIT-AM does a much more appropriate tribute page to him than his former employer only breifly mentioning him on the T-102 website with a link to the Lima News obit is (to put it lightly) abhorrent!

BTW..that loving tribute to Gordy that was aired on all Lima stations on August 28th was produced by Maverick Media Lima...not by the Clear Circlejerks.

Clear Channel makes me worse than sick!

HEIL RUSH!!!!!(ditto)

YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
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Limp:

Gordy's situation was sad, indeed...no argument there. But, once your association with a company has ended, the company no longer has any responsibility for seeing that employee's health is checked or taken care of.

Wouldn't the responsibility for Gordy getting medical attention after he left WIMT rest with Gordy? Furthermore, since his death, according to a police spokesman who was quoted in an article I read, was due to "natural causes", isn't it just possible that Gordy went to sleep one night and didn't wake up?

I'm never happy to see anyone who worked for one station for almost 20 years lose a job, but surely you're not suggesting that Clear Channel was in some way responsible for the man's death...
 
Hopefully JF will get what he deserves. After years of abusing his "power" to scare, threaten, and harass those around him he finally went too far. This is what happens when you put a bully in a position of power and leave him unchecked. While I don't doubt his ability to sell and bring in money for "The Big" one, I do have to doubt his people skills and his ability to manage an office without threatening his team....in the past it's just used mental and verbal threats but apparently he's moved on to physical ones these days.
 
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Limp:

Gordy's situation was sad, indeed...no argument there. But, once your association with a company has ended, the company no longer has any responsibility for seeing that employee's health is checked or taken care of.

Wouldn't the responsibility for Gordy getting medical attention after he left WIMT rest with Gordy? Furthermore, since his death, according to a police spokesman who was quoted in an article I read, was due to "natural causes", isn't it just possible that Gordy went to sleep one night and didn't wake up?

I'm never happy to see anyone who worked for one station for almost 20 years lose a job, but surely you're not suggesting that Clear Channel was in some way responsible for the man's death...
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No! however....

Gordy had a following and it angers me CC let the axe go on him. Although I read the news stories stating it was natural causes...I am still led to believe he never got a job ANYWHERE..even outside his chosen field. Should CC would have kept Gordy on the air,he would have had some income coming in to see a doctor before it got worse. We lost a legend at the mercy of CC's arrogance. To let a part timer go if the market is slow yes...to let go a Lima radio legend is making me want to use some harsh words.

Who will be next? Kim Faris at WLQT? (woe to CC if they do!)
 
Bongwater said:
You have to understand that radio is run by dangerously powermad people. These people are under the delusion that it's always someone else's fault when ratings/revenue sinks and it's not their sh--ty management that is to blame. Radio is an industry that cannot budget cut it's way back into huge profits and rating. It's cannibalizing itself. But don't tell that to....OWW!....HEY!....WHOA!....LET GO!.....
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You hit the nail on the head bubba!

BTW Limp73 you're right...The Cheap-skate Channel upper echelon could care less if a local personality known for his rapport with the listeners is giving the station the personality it needs to keep going. If they want to fire someone fire the big fat der fuhrer of the ditto head nation since he surely makes his wad....ooops oh.. they can't since they have an arch-conservative agenda and sensationalism sells and the Dixie Chicks are communists for not supporting the Dubya dork who got us in this whole mess!...PULLL--EEEEEZZZEEE!
 
Hey hey! The radio format of the future...MMMA. Media Mixed Martial Arts! A GM or Sales Mamager on one side of the octagon, a jock or sales geek on the other! Hot office assistants as octagon girls! 3 five minute rounds, winner gets to keep his job! Male and female divisions! Where is Dana White when we need him? Hey ESPN, you interested?
 
Will somebody please give some detail about what happened and when, and to whom and by whom? I realize you'll have to be vague about it, but please try to give us some context on all this and maybe some clues about the people involved.
 
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