High Pay = You're out

[Jorge87]

Seems like all the stations in town are getting rid of the highest paid people on staff at the first opportunity in their contracts. Daveman was pulling about a 10-share and lost his gig? wtf? Or have a baby and be fired at the hospital when you PD for CC. wtf? (I tried to send an email to his wife at The Brew and it got sent back to me as undeliverable. Was she fired too? I didn't see her mentioned. The fill-in parttimer doesn't mention her at all.) At CBS, Coop should've put himself on-the-air for free to help protect his gig. Is JoeShow the acting PD now? Or what are they doing? wtf? These moves are going to cut our salaries back to where we were in the 80's. Anyone willing to work a morning show for 25K again? Maybe that's a little optimistic... Perhaps we'll all be parttimers, no benefits, at 15 bucks per show.

 

[GaryTheThompson]

Well, I guess the industry will start having to get used to the idea of an invisible salary cap most places.

Can you believe that there are MAJOR market groups who consider anyone making over 30 overpaid?

Times, they are a changing.

 

[Al Timiter]

This all started happening in the mid-90's and began to snow-ball into what it is now. It happened to me. Twice. Should have read "Who Moved my Cheese" sooner or seen the hand-writing on the wall. The real trouble is figuring out what to do with yourself when you don't have that creative outlet (your show) anymore. Bosses at my new office job don't appreciate impersonations of Bill Shatner and practical jokes. Oh well....I live vicariously through NBC's "The Office."

 

[Kahuna1]

I feel your pain Al, I've been "out" since 99 when I got Coxed in Dayton. It was hard to even listen to the radio for a long time. Now I get to live vicariously through the borads and All Access to keep up with what's going on and if this latest round of talent dumps is any indication, I think getting out was the best thing that ever happened to me.

 

[snack_pack]

wasn't joe show already PD of Q?

 

[Inventor989]

There's a reason why I run my own business now. And this thread describes it perfectly.

 

[marko83]

Joe Show was PD of WAZU until recently when he gave it up to concentrate on his QFM on air duties. So much for that.

 

[jcmccoy]

I feel your pain Al, I've been "out" since 99 when I got Coxed in Dayton. It was hard to even listen to the radio for a long time. Now I get to live vicariously through the borads and All Access to keep up with what's going on and if this latest round of talent dumps is any indication, I think getting out was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I got dumped in early 04 at Saga WODB because Steve Goldstein pressured the locals, ie, Alan Goldman and Cary Pall to fire me because he told them that I had a "radio voice". He didnt like some bit that I did in 93 at BNS-FM that he heard on my web site and told Cary from the beginning to not hire me. Goldstein doesnt like big voice DJ's and had it out for me. He was pissed that Cary and Alan brought me on against his wishes. I was the only recognizable name on that station with Columbus Oldies fans from my shenanigans at Oldies B97 in the 90's. I dont think I could ever trust a corporate radio dude in a suit again. Living vicariously is fun Kahuna...it doesnt hurt anymore.

 

[FromTheSide]

JC, Cary,

As one who has lived here and listened to you both, on WODB, you are missed. The suits don't like the big personalities, because they cost too much money. The thing is, THEY'RE WORTH THE MONEY!!!!!

I hear that long-time production guy Steve Kahler was one of the casualties at CC? Did Joe Dawson survive?

 

[boyerfm]

Joe Show has been named APD for Q...Chris Thomas, night guy whose been with the station a whopping 1 year was named PD of Q...Apparently Dave Man, who was APD under Cooper, was a little too opinionated for Wilks VP of programming Jeff Sanders. Sanders, BTW is the one calling all the shots. Thomas is simply a guy in a chair that must float EVERYTHING

 

[Hollis]

So...does everyone think Wags and Elliott will survive?

 

[Inventor989]

Nothing personal as I don't know any of those folks, but as a listener I have been very disappointed with the night talent on Q. Bland, with way too much idle chatter, and no hipness whatsoever. Every time I have punched them up at night, I couldn't make it through one jock break before the button was pushed. When The Brew started making it a horse race a while back, I was not surprised. If this guy is now the PD, does this mean the rest of LVQ will now sound like the evening shift?

It is very sad to see yet another heritage rocker go through the corporate meatgrinder. If Wilks' people had any sense, they'd look up Tom Teuber.

As for Wags and Elliott, I suspect at contract's end their continued employment may only happen if they are willing to get a haircut in the wallet.

 

[ryan rafferdy]

Wow, JC Cartoons McCoy - I haven't talked to you since the old WLOH days when we were in the building across the street from the mall! Someone said you landed in Cincinnati, but that was probably 8 years ago when I heard that rumor. How are things?

Rafferdy

"FKA Ryan Alexander"

 

[CBusDave]

So...does everyone think Wags and Elliott will survive?

Nah, all the newspaper and local magazine articles that interview these guys have the "air" of hanging it up. I think one or the other (or both) have about had it with the revolving ownership door.

 

[cARLOS Blake]

I've been full time evenings 8 years, don't even make 19K & will still be out w/in a month. Welcome to the Black CheapChannel Parade! I hope these ***ks go bankrupt in '07!

 

[radiorep]

For what it's worth, Chris Thomas and evenings on WLVQ were #1 A25-54 and M25-54 in the SU06 book. It's not like he petitioned for the job, Daveman's contract was up at the end of '06 and they slid this guy in for probably 1/2 the money. Not that it's right. Plus, as long as Valerie Brooks has a job there, Joe Show won't get anything. She and Dave Cooper did everything they could to get rid of him and probably would have succeeded at the end of the year if CBS had not sold the stations.

The Brew has gone flat (pun intended), they're back to 5, 6 7 in adult and male demos. They had a good SP06 book and have fallen back to where they probably belong, second tier.

 

[jcmccoy]

Wow, JC Cartoons McCoy - I haven't talked to you since the old WLOH days when we were in the building across the street from the mall! Someone said you landed in Cincinnati, but that was probably 8 years ago when I heard that rumor. How are things?

Rafferdy

"FKA Ryan Alexander"

Hi back at ya...Cincy is my home. Yeah, Cary brought me into ODB and Saga was great until Steve Goldstein pulled the plug on me. Cary and Alan were great though. I've been producing a 50's oldies show that a friend does for syndication and XM radio. But my main focus is the mortgage business now. I miss the day to day activities in Radio, but not all this crap that we dribble about on here. Geez I wish for the day when a company owned 1 tv, 1 am, 1 fm in a market and that was it. Corporate greed makes me gag.