Is the rumor true?

[AM_Rocks]

Was Peter Bolger fired from Clear Channel?

 

[Surfer]

Probably. The question should be, "Who hasn't been fired from Clear Channel?"

 

[sheldon94]

OH MY GOD! Where did this come from? I'll call today and find out! if so that makes LORI SHEPARD PD! this would be bad!

 

[bat manny]

of what station ?

 

[jbrasco951]

WIOD

 

[radioboy]

Also WINZ.

R&R reported that Bolger "has left the building." It appears to be another restucturing move.

They just "restructured" in Tallahassee and bounced WTNT-FM country midday host Julie Miles
for a voicetracked midday host. Magic 107.1 got John Tesh in middays in addition to Tesh overnights.

 

[sheldon94]

I have confirmed that Pete Bolger has been let go effective @ 5pm yesterday. I was able to talk to someone higher up in the building. So he is gone!

 

[markoni]

I'll never forget when just hired Bolger fired me at WINZ-FM, back around 1986. He said to me, "It's just a restructuring thing, no fault of yours."

I promptly got hired by Bill Tanner over at Power 96 and had the pleasure of beating INZ in the next ratings! It was great!!! (Of course INZ was doing the Rockin' With Class disaster, so no surprise!)

Mark In The Dark

 

[sheldon94]

Well, I was taken off the air December 1st and reduced to producer and told by Lori Shepard that she wanted an all female airstaff and that I was to salivy on-the-air whatever the hell that means. I am quite bitter about moving back down here again and then this NOT working out so know I am leaving the market AGAIN. So in my eyes they win! but rest assured I will have the last laugh! Damn I hate South Florida! even though I am a native!

 

[Wazzie]

George-- It's not just south Florida... it's Nationwide. Lori will take on more duties, not get a pay increase and by falltime she will be shown the door. CC is squeezing the last nickel out of their business.

Hope that teaching thing works out for you.

Your pal in Tampa Bay

 

[top4odj]

I have confirmed that Pete Bolger has been let go effective @ 5pm yesterday. I was able to talk to someone higher up in the building. So he is gone!

Allow me a moment to pay respects to Peter Bolger, with is dismissal from CC...Ok DONE! ;D

I don't know why people are still shell shocked when someone is blown out of a station in this day and age. There is absolutely NO LOYALTY from employers of the broadcasting world. When you're with them, you're gold. When they tire of you, you're tarnished brass. It's a fact of life that's been so for decades, it's just happening more often now.

In todays broadcasting world, you can't even go "across the street", because the company that showed you the exit, most likely owns that station too.

WELCOME ALL NEW COMERS TO THE FINE WORLD OF RADIO. Enjoy your stay, because it could end as fast as it came.

 

[bgwilde1]

Radio today is like a dog. It only lives in the moment, has no concept of time or experience, and only knows what it craves...

 

[gumbo]

I don't know why people are still shell shocked when someone is blown out of a station in this day and age. There is absolutely NO LOYALTY from employers of the broadcasting world.

In todays broadcasting world, you can't even go "across the street", because the company that showed you the exit, most likely owns that station too.

The very reason I left this industry on a full-time basis over a decade ago.

Peter Bolger is one of the two PDs I truly respected in the course of my career. Able to hold his ego in check (how many PDs can say that?), knowledgeable in the techniques to producing good radio, pratical in his feedback. I enjoyed working with him.