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Hudson Hott Signs Off From KYSR

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Mykel the Radio Fan

Hott has been with iHeartMedia for her whole career, first with Honolulu's KUCD for a near 20-year run in mornings with Scotty B, before moving to Los Angeles in 2017 as weekend host on KYSR, before taking over middays in August 2019 after Tamo Sein exited the slot. She will continue working remotely as weekend/fill-in host at KYSR and nights at KIOI; KYSR has yet to announce plans for middays.
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Hudson Hott Says Farewell To Alt 98.7

Hudson Hott has signed-off from middays at iHeartMedia Alternative "Alt 98.7" KYSR Los Angeles. Hott has spent her entire career
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Unfortunately with radio revenues going down, down, down and the cost of living in major cities going up, up, up, the decision was an easy one to make financially.
 
What I find interesting is that -- as noted -- she will continue to track from NC for KIOI in San Francisco as well as weekends/relief on KYSR. I have to wonder why iHeart didn't offer to just let her continue to track the midday shift as well.
 
Congrats to her moving to North Carolina.

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It will be interesting for her to shows heading to California while she's in North Carolina. But Iheart has stations in Raleigh, Charlotte, Ashville and the Triad we just Don't know for now which Iheart Office Hudson Hott has to report to for shows.

It's gotta be like when KIIS Los Angeles still lists Ryan Seacrest as it's flagship show for Iheart while Ryan Seacrest had to show up for Live with Kelly Ripa.
 

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K.M. Richards said:
What I find interesting is that -- as noted -- she will continue to track from NC for KIOI in San Francisco as well as weekends/relief on KYSR. I have to wonder why iHeart didn't offer to just let her continue to track the midday shift as well.
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KYSR is a SAG/AFTRA station. KIOI isn't.
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
It will be interesting for her to shows heading to California while she's in North Carolina. But Iheart has stations in Raleigh, Charlotte, Ashville and the Triad we just Don't know for now which Iheart Office Hudson Hott has to report to for shows.

It's gotta be like when KIIS Los Angeles still lists Ryan Seacrest as it's flagship show for Iheart while Ryan Seacrest had to show up for Live with Kelly Ripa.
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She's not moving to another station in NC. She'll only be tracking to those from her home near the beach.
 
lanceventa said:
KYSR is a SAG/AFTRA station. KIOI isn't.
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So they'll keep her part time on the union-represented station part-time anyway?

Boy, am I glad I'm in programming and don't have to deal with these kinds of complexities.
 
With all the master control hubbing and news centralcasting happening in the television world, how much longer will it be before the big radio companies scout out real life Pleasantvilles (nice cafes, good schools, entertainment, quality housing) where the cost of living and the taxes are dirt minimal, and then announce groundbreaking on their brand new "National Media Master Operations Centers"? All their jocks at all their stations nationwide get invited to sell their homes and transfer there, where they'll continue hosting their live shows (and/or voicetracking their tracked shows) on the same stations throughout the country as before, but now as 100% remote work, done in one hyperconsolidated talent originating megafacility. Their salaries effectively all increase because of the lowered costs of living, and the companies cut costs by ditching non-transmission related facilities/equipment and eliminating the need to pay future talent hires the kinds of salaries all the countries' high cost areas necessitate.

You know how all the musician talent for jingle-making somehow coalesced around Dallas? Like that but for jocks/hosts (and their producers and creative staffs). And if the people who are saying economic pressures will eventually turn American radio stations into nothing more than European-style transmitter networks for 100% national content are right, then those facilities could slowly morph into NOCs for the equivalents of "terrestrial Sirius" and "terrestrial XM" -- while not being limited by actual satellites as far as fiber ground networks offering the capacity to continue feeding all stations in all markets their own, locally customized morning shows and other specialty local programming wherever profitable.
 
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K.M. Richards said:
So they'll keep her part time on the union-represented station part-time anyway?

Boy, am I glad I'm in programming and don't have to deal with these kinds of complexities.
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Different rules in the union contract for weekends. Usually a certain amount of hours need to be locally orginating. For example since Z100 New York carries Ryan Seacrest in middays, they continue to have live overnights.
 
K.M. Richards said:
So they'll keep her part time on the union-represented station part-time anyway?

Boy, am I glad I'm in programming and don't have to deal with these kinds of complexities.
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Union rules are different in every market. I left a union job in NYC for another union job in another major market just for work rules that fit me better.
 
Thank you, Lance and A. It has obviously been a long time since I have had anything to do with union contracts ...

... and I remain thankful that I don't.
 
I knew someone who interned at a union station in Chicago, and they couldn't touch ANY of the equipment because they weren't part of the union.
 
radiofan2023 said:
I knew someone who interned at a union station in Chicago, and they couldn't touch ANY of the equipment because they weren't part of the union.
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That was the situation in NYC. Plus you had one group who could operate the equipment, and a different group who would maintain it. One group wasn't allowed to do the other job. I could go on for days about union rules. There are more union rules than employer rules at most stations I've been at.
 
According to her she said it was cause of her family could not afford to stay in la. And the fact that she is staying with the company still doing her other shifts at other iheart stations. Perhaps she is telling the truth.
 
TheBigA said:
Article A includes radio. Not sure how it coexists with the AFTRA contract. Under the NABET deal, it gives announcers & producers the right to operate certain equipment.
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Yeah that's why I wondered about it. Sometimes producers used to host Forum, but I don't know how common that is now that Forum has a host for each hour.
 
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