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I Feel Vindicated

  • Thread starter TightwadSquarepants
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Jason, the reason you were let go is that you probably made Widener's S*(t list, just like I did, and just like John Patrick did, and just like Brad Allen did. When you get on there, it's not long before the hammer falls and you're left looking for a job somewhere else. You're not the last and you won't be the last, I guarantee it.
 
What you tell me is not unique to Holston. I think you'll find it on several management types.

Most of America scorns corporate radio- but I swear in this market I sometimes feel as if Citadel is the only radio that can do anything right.
 
While I have never worked at Bristol Broadcasting, so I don't personally know how they are, I can tell you there's a world of difference in Citadel and Holston Valley. It's not perfect (where is?), but it's at least 140 degrees of difference from where I started. I don't feel like I am left in the dark on purpose...that's a big deal, if you've ever worked at HVBC! But yes, Jockamo, you are correct. I did make Widener's proverbial feces list like the aforementioned individuals. I used to think that was hard to do. How wrong was I?
 
TightwadSquarepants said:
The sales department, on one occasion, sold an informercial to Big Mama's Karaoke Cafe in Seymour which was nothing but 30 minutes of samples of people singing karaoke at the bar! Why'd they do it? $100 bucks a show. I swear to you that if someone came in with fifty bucks and said they wanted to buy airtime to broadcasting a farting contest, they would've put it on!
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When I heard WKPT/WOPI this morning, and they were playing these same "gospel" songs in a row that they play every Sunday morning, those things popped into my mind.
They play this 30-minute stretch of the same songs, in the same order, with the same "Super Hits of the Tri-Cities" liners played in the same spots between a few of the songs, every Sunday morning, and have been for I-don't-know-how-long. This morning, it was on from 9:30-10. I don't know about this morning, but there have been times when it ran from 8:30-9 and 9:30-10.
It seems like they're trying to put something "religious" on when they don't have anything else to put on.
Now, how much are they getting paid for this? Have things really gone from the situation Tightwad mentioned back in '07 - to this?
At this point, I'd rather them take one of the two above-mentioned options. At least, they'd make a little money.
 
I'd say your vindication is officially complete as of yesterday, when WKPT-AM became sports-talk ("ESPN Tri-Cities")!

Congratulations!
 
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