How Long Until Julie Kahn And Jason Wolfe Get Fired At WRKO?

[Casablanca]

Julie Kahn and Jason Wolfe cannot be too secure in their jobs at WRKO. If past in prologue, a previous General Manager named Fish was fired less than a year after he tried to fire Jerry Williams over the "Hizzoner" incident and the PD, Mel Miller was forced into retirement.

Seems when the dust settles the corporate suits realize that someone other than on-air talent is to blame and you can only blame on-air talent and producers and engineers so long. Eventually, someone higher up looks at the plush corner office to find someone to blame for bad programming and low ratings.

This poster gives Julie Kahn 6 months at most before she is on the street and Jason Wolfe may find himself waist high in snow in a few weeks.

 

[johnwas5]

why... Have you seen revenue reports? No, I haven't either, but they will be judged by something having to do with the relationship between income and expenses, won't they? Since we don't know the result of that equation, how can you reasonably speculate that they might be getting canned?

 

[Casablanca]

No, Kahn and Wolfe whether they are totally responsible or not will be made the final scapegoat in the John DePetro/ Jim Kiesling fiasco.
WRKO might as well have dead air in the morning now if Scott Brown is the best they can do.

Bottom line is management will determine now that DePetro et al are gone out the door that Julie Kahn and Jason Wolfe are to blame and they will be summarily shown the door.

I think John DePetro and his lawyers will have the last laugh on this one. I hear the cash register ringing now. If DePetro's attorney, Bellotti, is half the lawyer his father Frank Bellotti is [ was also considered the best Attorney General Massachusetts has had ] John DePetro will be reaching deep into Entercom's pockets and coming up with gold.

On the other hand Kahn and Wolfe will come up with drek.

 

[Panago]

casa's sorta right, sometimes managers do get whacked for screwing these things up..

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

Julie Kahn and Jason Wolfe cannot be too secure in their jobs at WRKO. If past in prologue, a previous General Manager named Fish was fired less than a year after he tried to fire Jerry Williams over the "Hizzoner" incident and the PD, Mel Miller was forced into retirement.

Seems when the dust settles the corporate suits realize that someone other than on-air talent is to blame and you can only blame on-air talent and producers and engineers so long. Eventually, someone higher up looks at the plush corner office to find someone to blame for bad programming and low ratings.

This poster gives Julie Kahn 6 months at most before she is on the street and Jason Wolfe may find himself waist high in snow in a few weeks.

It would be refreshing if, just once, you actually knew what you were talking about. Kahn and Wolfe are perfectly safe in their jobs. I know it just galls you to think that they're working in radio and you're not...well, too freakin' bad.

What you can never seem to get through your thick noggin' is that radio is a business, despite what you think it is. Kahn and Wolfe bring in the bucks, pure and simple, and in business that's the name of the game. Radio stations exist to make money for their owners. Kahn and Wolfe have proven over and over again that they can make the money.

The only prediction that's worth anything is that in six months, or when the snow flies, Casablanca will still be on this board spouting his bitterness for the whole Internet to see.

 

[Django]

It's probably fair to say Wolfe has earned his keep. Kahn seems more interested in her press clippings and riding Wolfe's coattails.

 

[Casablanca]

Julie Kahn and Jason Wolfe cannot be too secure in their jobs at WRKO. If past in prologue, a previous General Manager named Fish was fired less than a year after he tried to fire Jerry Williams over the "Hizzoner" incident and the PD, Mel Miller was forced into retirement.

Seems when the dust settles the corporate suits realize that someone other than on-air talent is to blame and you can only blame on-air talent and producers and engineers so long. Eventually, someone higher up looks at the plush corner office to find someone to blame for bad programming and low ratings.

This poster gives Julie Kahn 6 months at most before she is on the street and Jason Wolfe may find himself waist high in snow in a few weeks.

It would be refreshing if, just once, you actually knew what you were talking about. Kahn and Wolfe are perfectly safe in their jobs. I know it just galls you to think that they're working in radio and you're not...well, too freakin' bad.

What you can never seem to get through your thick noggin' is that radio is a business, despite what you think it is. Kahn and Wolfe bring in the bucks, pure and simple, and in business that's the name of the game. Radio stations exist to make money for their owners. Kahn and Wolfe have proven over and over again that they can make the money.

The only prediction that's worth anything is that in six months, or when the snow flies, Casablanca will still be on this board spouting his bitterness for the whole Internet to see.

Will you stop with the personal attack. I was writing about what actually happened at WRKO when another incident happened. The General Manager got canned and the PD was forced into retirement.
That is the way of business. That is the bottom line.
Again, stop attacking the messinger.

 

[raccoonradio]

Your material is nothing but re-runs.

Do you work there now? Are you intimate with what's
going on? Would they re-hire you (after all the "nice" things you've said about them?)

 

[Varulven]

Jason Wolfe appears to have done a decent job with WEEI. WRKO is going SOX and the Sox just got the big prize of the off-season so far.

That bodes well for WRKO. Remember, WBCN was on cruise control, so even with Howie Carr's ratings in a freefall and the rest of the station doing worse, the Red Sox and Sports talk will cure all.

Just leave Ted Nation at home. He got that proverbial "Thumpin" at the polls, didn't he?

I agree with you, Raccoon, Casablanca has to focus on some of the other stations. These incessant posts are losing their edge. There are lots of deficient radio signals in Boston, far more than WRKO. The sad thing is, most of the stations are homogenized, boring, and lacking in all areas. It appears to be a conscious corporate decision across the board to make a niche market and milk it for all they can until it all crumbles. They want the quick fix, and always can call on reinvention if it all goes south.

New Coke anyone?

 

[raccoonradio]

Yes WRKO should get good numbers with Sox, etc. I heard a promo on WTKK saying "Boston's
only full time talk station" and I thought, what about WRKO? Well, considering they run Sox and Celts games
they can't really be called full time talk (also that news hour at 5 am)...but I'd think WKOX/WXKS and WTTT
could be considered all talk, too...?

Ted will still be heard on the occasional BC basketball game and that's it. yes, last place in Gov Council Race.

In some ways I can find good things about local radio, but yes, it does help to be able to hear stuff on
CD or mp3...or airchecks from other towns, etc. (And those type of things will come in handy soon when
WODS goes all ho-ho-ho and I'm not quite ready for all-Christmas...)

 

[Panago]

>>It would be refreshing if, just once, you actually knew what you were talking about. Kahn and Wolfe are perfectly safe in their jobs.

nobody's every safe in radio anymore, not these managers, not anybody,

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

Julie Kahn and Jason Wolfe cannot be too secure in their jobs at WRKO. If past in prologue, a previous General Manager named Fish was fired less than a year after he tried to fire Jerry Williams over the "Hizzoner" incident and the PD, Mel Miller was forced into retirement.

Seems when the dust settles the corporate suits realize that someone other than on-air talent is to blame and you can only blame on-air talent and producers and engineers so long. Eventually, someone higher up looks at the plush corner office to find someone to blame for bad programming and low ratings.

This poster gives Julie Kahn 6 months at most before she is on the street and Jason Wolfe may find himself waist high in snow in a few weeks.

It would be refreshing if, just once, you actually knew what you were talking about. Kahn and Wolfe are perfectly safe in their jobs. I know it just galls you to think that they're working in radio and you're not...well, too freakin' bad.

What you can never seem to get through your thick noggin' is that radio is a business, despite what you think it is. Kahn and Wolfe bring in the bucks, pure and simple, and in business that's the name of the game. Radio stations exist to make money for their owners. Kahn and Wolfe have proven over and over again that they can make the money.

The only prediction that's worth anything is that in six months, or when the snow flies, Casablanca will still be on this board spouting his bitterness for the whole Internet to see.

Will you stop with the personal attack.

Then learn what a personal attack is. Your desperate attempts to denigrate WRKO and its management are getting old and boring. We get it already. You don't like them. You don't have to waste server space on this board, or our time, repeating the same old tired mantra.

I was writing about what actually happened at WRKO when another incident happened. The General Manager got canned and the PD was forced into retirement. That is the way of business. That is the bottom line. Again, stop attacking the messinger.

No. What you were writing about was a completely different incident with a completely different outcome. However, your agenda is that since it happened at WRKO, it must result in the unemployment of two managers just because you say so. That isn't the way it works. Your understanding of the radio business is as lacking as your ability to let go of your 20-plus-year-old grudge.

And if you don't like being attacked, then stop repeating the same message on and on ad infinitum.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

>>It would be refreshing if, just once, you actually knew what you were talking about. Kahn and Wolfe are perfectly safe in their jobs.

nobody's every safe in radio anymore, not these managers, not anybody,

These managers are perfectly safe. As long as their bottom-line performance continues the way it has, they have absolutely nothing to worry about.

 

[Panago]

nope, ESPECIALLY not at Entercom or anywhere else either!!

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

nope, ESPECIALLY not at Entercom or anywhere else either!!

Just continuing to deny it doesn't make it so. In nearly 40 years in the radio business, I have yet to see any top-level manager get fired if they were performing up to snuff (read: bringing in the bucks). The P&L statement is the only thing top managers and owners care about.

 

[Panago]

other than for the sox, that building's had a billing problem going back years, especially 'rko, what are you talking about??

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

other than for the sox, that building's had a billing problem going back years, especially 'rko, what are you talking about??

So, tell us all about this billing problem. Quote some facts and figures. I have access to X-Ray, so I'll know if you're making it up.

We're waiting.

 

[Panago]

never been a strong biller, David even mentioned it on a investor conf. call awhile back..