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Hobbs Out At CC?

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Taylor is reporting that Gabe Hobbs is out as Senior VP of New/Talk/Sports Programming at CC as well as his duties in Tampa. This one surprised me...I never worked closely with Hobbs but always enjoyed what he had to say at conventions. I am sure he will land somewhere else.
 
Good guy and the man responsible for clearing my show in Tampa. Thank you, Gabe. Congratulations in advance to whomever picks him up! I imagine the offers are already rolling in.
 
LasVegasRadioJunky said:
I would put my money on him joining Club Jacor at Tribune.
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Randy already hired equally clueless buddy Marc Chase so you're probably right on the money.
 
justareporter said:
He gave us Glen Beck and voice-tracked newscasts.

bye - bye
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...and running off the station's only liberal show, Mark Biero
- cutting the great local Sunday a.m. gardening show down an hour so the syndicated Jesus Christ show can run a full three hours, and
- generally running mostly syndicated shows all weekend with zero local call-in shows during the day.

So nothing local after 9 a.m., with the exception of that barbecue show.

But then again, the other 279 NT stations his position programmed/ supervised also sound as engaging.
A lot of creativity and automated "programming" there.
 
You're absolutely sure that Hobbs had an unlimited budget and could have taken all of CC's N/Ters live and local 24/7 but just didn't want to? You're sure about that?
 
gr8oldies said:
You're absolutely sure that Hobbs had an unlimited budget and could have taken all of CC's N/Ters live and local 24/7 but just didn't want to? You're sure about that?
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I have no idea of what his budget was. I'm sure CC ordered big spending cuts after paying big bucks for all those stations. The dictum, as I understand it, was to keep costs as low as possible, run the cheapest programming available, and fire anyone you can. On-air staff became completely dispensible.

Think of how much local inventory that is surrendered to all those syndicators that could be sold just for a 3-6 p.m. NT shift for all of CC's NT'ers. That could be a lot of money, much more than what is saved by running automated programming.
 
Look, maybe it is time to face the patently obvious: Hogan, Michaels, et.al know little to nothing about "broadcasting." they know how to make $$ and if you cut enough people from a station and you can manage to keep the revenue stream intact then the station will make money.

One problem: listeners don't want to listen to the same thing on 500 radio stations...they want to hear someone local now and then. The current batch of rocket-scientist programmers don't want to understand that fundamental. they think all listeners are sheep...and they aren't.

They are now listening to their Ipods.
 
I never post here. But I have to tell you I have been in radio for 35 years now, and Gabe Hobbs was the BEST OD I ever worked for. He is one of my close friends and I've known him all most 20 years. He will land on his feet again, and you can bet on that. I only hope I get a chance to work with him again.
 
jaymarvin said:
I never post here. But I have to tell you I have been in radio for 35 years now, and Gabe Hobbs was the BEST OD I ever worked for. He is one of my close friends and I've known him all most 20 years. He will land on his feet again, and you can bet on that. I only hope I get a chance to work with him again.
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Nothing against Gabe (I have never met him), but was it his idea to turn the station into being mostly a repeater of national shows with nothing or very little local programming after 9 a.m.?
Or was that decision made by a higher level at CC?

CC can't say it was the economy because the station has been mostly syndicated for years.
 
You cannot know Randy Michaels' history pre-CC and make a statment like "he knows nothing about programming". Having turned WKRC and WLW around (just a couple of examples), done sizzling airf shifts and talk shows, sorry, that statment is without merit.
 
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